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A transit of Earth from Mars took place on May 11, 1984. The next transit will take place on November 10, 2084.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Earth_from_Mars#View_from_Mars



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Glacier National Park in Montana was established on May 11, 1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.)

California redwood 'Lost Monarch' was discovered on May 11, 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Monarch

The McMinnville UFO hoax photographs were taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, in 1950. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs

A printed copy of the Chinese version of Diamond S?tra was dated back to May 11, 868.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra

Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t35804657/ibm-deep-blue/



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Pokharan-II refers to test explosions of five nuclear devices, three on 11 May and two on 13 May 1998
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49104918/pokharan-ii-underground-nuclear-testing/

Birla Planetarium, Chennai, was inaugurated on 11 May 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birla_Planetarium,_Chennai

The ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, was founded in 1972
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t20834307/isro-satellite-centre/

HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 11 May 1820 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t23858562/hms-beagle/



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Viking 4, on 11 May 1950, launched from the deck of the USS Norton Sound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_(rocket)#Flight_history

Kosmos 557, the third space station in the Salyut program, was launched on May 11, 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_557

USA-150 was launched on 11 May 2000
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t53655335/navstar-gps-iir-4-satellite/

STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was launched on 11 May 2009 at 18:01:56 UTC.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t17617719/sts-125-mission/



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Harriet Quimby (May 11, 1875 - July 1, 1912) was an early American aviator and a movie screenwriter. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimby#English_Channel

Friedrich Schmiedl (11 May 1902 - 11 September 1994) was an Austrian rocket designer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schmiedl

Luca Urbani (born May 11, 1957, in Rome, Italy) was an ASI astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Urbani

Theodore von Kármán (May 11, 1881 - May 7, 1963) was a Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n

Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988) was an American physicist 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47056724/richard-feynman/

Bruce Allen (born May 11, 1959) is an American physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Allen_(physicist)

Haroun Tazieff (11 May 1914 - 2 February 1998) was a French volcanologist and geologist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroun_Tazieff

Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989, was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 New York City - July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Schlesinger

Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, 11 May 1924) is a British radio astronomer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hewish



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The BBC Sky at Night, 700 Not Out, was aired on the 11/05/12
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwwj8j_the-sky-at-night-special-700-not-out_tech



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NGC 4594 was discovered by German astronomer Pierre Méchain on the 11th May 1781.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t2919994/m104/

NGC 4805 was discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on the 11th May 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57535192/ngc-4805/

NGC 4817 was discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on the 11th May 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57535183/ngc-4817/

NGC 5178 was discovered by German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel on the 11th May 1883.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57535179/ngc-5178/

NGC 5605 was discovered by William Herschel on the 11th May 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t64133244/ngc-5605/

NGC 5829 was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan on the 11th May 1882.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57535175/ngc-5829/

NGC 5842 was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan on the 11th May 1882.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57535163/ngc-5842/



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On May 11th, 1983, Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcóck passed about 0.0312 AU from the Earth.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t53586099/comet-iras-araki-alcck/

Asteroid (11) Parthenope was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on May 11, 1850
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_Parthenope

Asteroid (233) Asterope was discovered by A. Borrelly on May 11, 1883, in Marseilles, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/233_Asterope

Asteroid (486) Cremona was discovered by Luigi Carnera on May 11, 1902, in Heidelberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486_Cremona

Asteroid (536) Merapi was discovered by George Henry Peters on May 11, 1904 from Washington, D.C.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/536_Merapi

Virginia fireball of May 11, 1922
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49125270/great-meteor-of-may-11-1922/



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Meteorites

The Oesel (L6) meteorite fell in Estonia, on the 11th May, 1855.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49104812/oesel-meteorite/

The Sevrukovo (L5) meteorite fell in Belgorodskaya oblast', Russia, on the 11th May, 1874.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49104818/sevrukovo-meteorite/

The Lillaverke (H5) meteorite fell in Kalmar, Sweden, on the 11th May, 1930.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49104837/lillaverke-meteorite/

The Nejo (L6) meteorite fell in Welega, Ethiopia, on the 11th May, 1970.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49104852/nejo-meteorite/



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