Today is Sunday, May 11, the 131st day of 2025. There are 234 days in the year.
Today in history:
On May 11, 1997, the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated the failures of the Grand Master Garry Kasparov in the last match of a six-game game in New York, winning 3 and a half-years and marking the first time that a computer won a match against a reigning world champion.
Also on this date:
In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of the programs of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1946, the first care packages, sent by a consortium of American charitable organizations to relieve the appetizers of post-war Europe, arrived in Le Havre, in France.
In 1953, one of the deadliest tornadoes in the history of Texas devastated the city of Waco, killing 114 people and injuring nearly 600.
In 1960, Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 1973, Daniel Ellsberg’s spy trial and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case ended as judge William Mr. Byrne rejected all the accusations, citing government fault.
In 1981, the artist reggae Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at 36 years old acral lentinous melanoma.
In 1984, Claus Barbie, the Nazi chief of the Gestapo known as “Boucher de Lyon”, was tried in Lyon for crimes against humanity after being extradited from Bolivia, where he lived for more than 30 years after the Second World War. (Barbie would be found guilty and died in prison four years later.)
In 1996, a Valujet DC-9 in Atlanta caught fire shortly after the takeoff of Miami and crashed in the Everything in Florida, killing the 110 people on board.
Today’s birthdays:
- Rock singer Eric Burdon is 84 years old.
- The actor Frances Fisher is 73 years old.
- The former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 66 years old.
- The Mark Breland Olympic Olympic Gold Medalist is 62 years old.
- Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 61 years old.
- The temple of basketball renown Lauren Jackson is 44 years old.
- The former quarter of the NFL, Cam Newton, is 36 years old.
- The Latin pop singer, Prince Royce, is 36 years old.
- Actor Lana Condor is 28 years old.
- The singer-actor Sabrina Carpenter is 26 years old.
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