May 11th
Today in America's Present Past
1647 | Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam (New York).
1751 | Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Hospital.
1779 | Founder John Hart died.
1799 | Philanthropist John Lowell was born.
1852 | Politician Charles W. Fairbanks was born.
1858 | Statehood: Minnesota granted statehood.
1861 | Adventurer Frederick Russell Burnham was born.
1875 | Aviator Harriet Quimby was born in Arcadia, Michigan.
1888 | Composer Irving Berlin was born.
1901 | Author Mari Sandoz was born.
1906 | Aviator Jacqueline Cochran was born.
1918 | Physicist Richard Feynman was born.
1923 | Parliamentarian Henry Martyn Robert died.
1924 | Robert Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1925 | Physicist William Glasser was born.
1927 | Louis B Mayer formed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
1928 | TV: General Electric opens the first TV station in Schenectady, New York.
1933 | Cleric Louis Farrakhan was born.
1960 | Entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller died.
1963 | Civil Rights: The Birmingham, Alabama, race riot starts.
1970 | Civil Rights: Augusta, Georgia riots.
1992 | Mixologist Carlos Herrera died.