Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 11
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May 11: Fallen Soldiers Remembrance Day in Israel (2005)
- 330 - Byzantium became Constantinople, the new capital of the Roman Empire under Constantine I.
- 1792 - Explorer Robert Gray first sighted the Columbia River, the largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America.
- 1812 - British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons.
- 1894 - The "wildcat" Pullman Strike began in Illinois.
- 1960 - Mossad agents captured Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader and fugitive war criminal hiding in Argentina.