TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 11, 1927

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1647

Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1858

Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.

1937

“SPAM” was registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.

1947

The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.

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

Legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.

1987

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore transplanted the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim into a cystic fibrosis patient who gave up his own healthy heart to another recipient.