📜 This Day in History

May 11

• 868A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in Tang-dynasty China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book.
• 1820HMS Beagle, the ship that would take Charles Darwin on his voyage, was launched.
• 1894In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
• 1981Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, opened at the New London Theatre.
• 2010Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats.
• 2022Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin refugee camp.

Born on this day

• 1895Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
• 1904Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989)
• 1918Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
• 1984Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer