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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 11
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Jackie Milburn; English soccer star (Newcastle United).
- 100th: 1924 - Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election.
- 100th: 1924 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire).
- 90th: 1934 - Over two days, the most severe dust storm to date in the USA sweeps an estimated 350 million tons of topsoil from the Great Plains across to the eastern seaboard.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of James M Jeffords; American politician (Representative-Republican-Vermont, 1975-).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of John Benaud; cricket player (brother of Richie; Australian bat 1972-73).
- 80th: 1944 - Slomp, Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver), freed from Arnhem prison.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Edgar Riley Junior; rocker (Axe K).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Bobby Witt in Arlington, Virginia, USA; pitcher (Texas Rangers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Drew Story in San Clemente, California, USA; canoe (alternate-Olympics-1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Floyd Youmans; baseball pitcher (Montreal Expos).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jeff Sellers; baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Katie Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner; model/guest VJ (MTV).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Roger Juffing; soccer player (Fortuna Sittard).
- 40th: 1984 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
- 40th: 1984 - Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure burns down, killing eight.
- 40th: 1984 - Detroit Tigers set best 30-game start record (26-4).
- 30th: 1994 - Grease opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater in New York City for 1,503 performances.
- 30th: 1994 - Six white racists sentenced to death in South Africa.
- 30th: 1994 - Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup.
- 30th: 1994 - Lewis B Puller, US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at age 48.
- 15th: 2009 - The NASA space shuttle Atlantis blasts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.
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