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Events on May 11

• 1189 In Regensburg, one and a half years after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Ayyubids under Sultan Saladin, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa sets out for the Third Crusade with an army of several thousand.
• 1873 In the German Empire under Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the first of the May Laws is enacted, with which the state gains influence over the training and appointment of Catholic clergy. This marks the beginning of the height of the Kulturkampf with the Catholic Church.
• 1878 The Socialist Max Hödel carries out a pistol assassination attempt on German Emperor William I in Berlin, although no one is injured. The assassination attempt is the occasion for the enactment of the Anti-Socialist Law on 19 October.
• 1931 At the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin, the film “M” by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou, starring Peter Lorre in the title role, has its world premiere under the original title “M”. The film becomes a box-office success, but receives mixed reviews from the press.
• 1936 The Reichsbahn sets a world speed record for steam locomotives with a DR Class 05 locomotive. The locomotive reaches a speed of 200.4 km/h on a level stretch of track between Hamburg and Berlin at Friesack.
• 1952 During a demonstration against the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany in Essen, the 21-year-old communist worker Philipp Müller is shot by the police. It is the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany that a demonstrator has been killed by the police.
• 1960 According to its own account, the Israeli intelligence service Mossad kidnaps the former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires and brings him to Israel, where he faces a public trial.
• 1973 In the German Bundestag, the Basic Treaty on relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic is ratified.
• 1981 The musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn, based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, premieres with Elaine Paige at the New London Theatre in London’s West End.
• 1997 For the first time, a chess world champion is defeated by a computer in a match under “tournament conditions”: Garry Kasparov loses to the IBM-developed Deep Blue 2.5:3.5.
• 2003 A sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, the Saliera (a salt cellar), is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna during the night before Sunday.
• 2009 The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched for a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The mission STS-125 was the last servicing mission of the telescope.

Born on May 11

• 1892 Margaret Rutherford, British actress
• 1894 Martha Graham, American dancer
• 1901 Rose Ausländer, German lyric poet
• 1921 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
• 1941 Eric Burdon, British rock singer (The Animals)
• 1960 Jürgen Schult, German track and field athlete
• 1970 Eva Menasse, Austrian writer
• 1984 Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
• 1992 Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
• 2000 Yuki Tsunoda, Japanese racing driver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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