Today in History: Bob Marley died at 36
The following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 11:
1943 – U.S. amphibious forces landed on Attu in the Aleutians, the first American territory to be recaptured from the Japanese.
1949 – Israel admitted to the United Nations.
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican-born singer who with his group The Wailers popularised reggae, died of cancer.
1995 -
More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons
1996 – A ValuJet Airlines DC-9 crashed in the swampy Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 110.
1997 – Garry Kasparov was defeated at chess by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue — the first time a machine had triumphed over a reigning world champion.
1998 – The first euro coin to be minted came off the presses in France.
1998 – India conducted three underground nuclear tests, bringing worldwide condemnation and heightened tension with Pakistan.
2000 – India's population officially reaches 1 billion - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby
2008 – Nepali police detained 562 Tibetan women at an anti-China rally in Kathmandu, the first all-women protest against Chinese rule in their homeland.
2011 – Fatal earthquake hits historic buildings in Lorca, Spain.
2016 – Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer strikes out a record 20 batters.
(Reuters)
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