Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 11:
\n1943 \u2013 U.S. amphibious forces landed on Attu in the Aleutians, the first American territory to be recaptured from the Japanese.
\n1949 \u2013 Israel admitted to the United Nations.
\n1981 \u2013 Bob Marley, Jamaican-born singer who with his group The Wailers popularised reggae, died of cancer.
\n1996 \u2013 A ValuJet Airlines DC-9 crashed in the swampy Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 110.
\n1997 \u2013 Garry Kasparov was defeated at chess by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue \u2014 the first time a machine had triumphed over a reigning world champion.
\n1998 \u2013 The first euro coin to be minted came off the presses in France.
\n1998 \u2013 India conducted three underground nuclear tests, bringing worldwide condemnation and heightened tension with Pakistan.
\n2000 \u2013 India welcomed its billionth citizen when a baby girl was born at Delhi\u2019s state-run Safdarjang Hospital.
\n2008 \u2013 Nepali police detained 562 Tibetan women at an anti-China rally in Kathmandu, the first all-women protest against Chinese rule in their homeland.
\n2011 \u2013 Fatal earthquake hits historic buildings in Lorca, Spain.
\n2016 \u2013 Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer strikes out a record 20 batters.
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