DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2022. There are 234 days left in the year. On this date in:
1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
1858: Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
1935: The Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
1946: The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.
1953: A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960: Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1973: The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
1981: Reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.
1996: An Atlanta-bound Valujet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
1998: India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years. A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency, the euro.
2010: Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.
2020: Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus. Jerry Stiller, best known for his role as George Costanza’s father in “Seinfeld” and earlier as part of a comedy duo with wife Anne Meara, died at 92.
Jazz musician Carla Bley is 86. Singer Eric Burdon (The Animals, War) is 81. Actor Pam Ferris (“Call the Midwife”) is 74. Actor Shohreh Aghdashloo (“24”) is 70. Actor Frances Fisher (“Resurrection,” “Titanic”) is 70. Actor Boyd Gaines is 69. Drummer Mark Herndon (Alabama) is 67. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 63. Country singer Tim Raybon of The Raybon Brothers is 59. Actor Tim Blake Nelson (“Lincoln,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) is 58. Actor Jeffrey Donovan
(TV’S “Fargo”) is 54. Bassist Keith West
of Heartland is 54. Actor Nicky Katt
(“Boston Public”) is 51.