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| May 11th |
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| About May 11th is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1852 - Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th U.S. Vice President 1912 - Foster Brooks, actor, comedian (Mork & Mindy) 1958 - Christian Brando, actor, plead guilty of manslaughter 1963 - Natasha Richardson, actress (The Parent Trap) Deaths 1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist 1981 - Bob Marley, reggae musician, singer 1986 - Fritz Pollard, Hall of Fame coach, quarterback, running back Events 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final trip to the West Indies. 1987 - Dr. Bruce Reitz of Stanford University School of Medicine performs the first heart-lung transplant in Baltimore, Maryland. 1997 - IBM Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. |
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