Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 11

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 * 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated those of the Pragmatic Allies at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present-day Belgium.
 * 1812 – Spencer Perceval was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, becoming the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
 * 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first confirmed Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains (depicted).
 * 1858 – Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
 * 1880 – A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke out, leaving seven dead.
 * 1894 – In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
 * 1910 – Glacier National Park was established in the U.S. state of Montana.
 * 1928 – After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China.
 * 1963 – African Americans rioted in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to two bombings, perceiving local police to be complicit with the perpetrators.
 * 1981 – Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, the first megamusical, opened at the New London Theatre.
 * 1997 – Deep Blue (pictured) defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
 * 1998 – India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
 * 2010 – David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
 * 2011 – An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.
 * 2013 – Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
 * 2022 – Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
 * Born/died: | Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen |b|1720| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach |b|1752| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux |b|1827| Frederick Russell Burnham |b|1861| Frank Schlesinger |b|1871| William Grant Still |b|1895| Lise de Baissac |b|1905| Natasha Richardson |b|1963| Juliette Récamier |d|1849| Douglas Adams |d|2001| Abel Goumba |d|2009| Doris Eaton Travis |d|2010