21 Ordibehesht 1402

Events

• 330 (1696 years ago) Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 1858 (168 years ago) Minnesota becomes the 32nd U.S. state.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1973 (53 years ago) Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.
• 1987 (39 years ago) Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• 2009 (17 years ago) An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
• 2011 (15 years ago) The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2014 (12 years ago) Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.

Births

• 1895 (131 years ago) Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (died 2002)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
• 1992 (34 years ago) Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
• 1999 (27 years ago) Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress

Deaths

• 912 (1114 years ago) Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (born 866)
• 1610 (416 years ago) Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (born 1552)
• 1778 (248 years ago) William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1708)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (born 1873): xix
• 1927 (99 years ago) Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
• 1981 (45 years ago) Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
• 1981 (45 years ago) Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
• 2001 (25 years ago) Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (born 1952)

All 208 events, births and deaths of May 11