Today In History
Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2022. There are 234 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 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.
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.
› 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.
› 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.
› 2020: Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 89. Jazz keyboardist Carla Bley is 86. Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 81. Actor Pam Ferris is 74. Former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly is 72. Actor Shohreh Aghdashloo is 70. Actor Frances Fisher is 70. Sports columnist Mike Lupica is
70. Actor Boyd Gaines is 69. Actor Martha Quinn is 63. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 58. Actor Jeffrey Donovan is 54. Actor Nicky Katt is 52. Actor Coby Bell is 47. Cellist Perttu Kivilaakso is 44. Actor Austin O’Brien is 41. Actor-singer Jonathan Jackson is
40. Rapper Ace Hood is
34. Latin singer Prince Royce is 33. Actor Annabelle Attanasio (TV: “Bull”) is 29. Musician Howard Lawrence (Disclosure) is 28.