Here’s for a little shamless promotion for this great day. Let’s see my LJ, my birthday so why not really take advantage of the situation and really do it up right. I chose the above picture because it sums up one of the biggest events of the past year, the incident with the deer and the loss of my car for forty days and forty nights back in November.
Things that happened on May 11th in history:
1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1689 French and English naval battle takes place at Bantry Bay.
1812 British prime Minster Spencer Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1858 Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1866 Confederate President Jefferson Davis becomes a free man after spending two years in prison for his role in the American Civil War.
1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
1944 A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.
1960 Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1977 Keegan Willis Sands was born in Newburyport, MA to parents Mary Louise and William Douglas at 3:23 PM.
1995 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely. The treaty limited the spread of nuclear material for military purposes.
1996 An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
1998 A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
1998 India conducted its first underground nuclear tests in 24 years.
1998 A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency. The coin is known as the euro.