Here are some significant events that took place on May 11th in history:
330 – Byzantium is renamed Constantinople after its founder, Emperor Constantine the Great.
1812 – British prime minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States.
1910 – An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand.
1997 – IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.
2011 – The world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, is killed by US forces in Pakistan.
These are just a few of the important events that have taken place on May 11th throughout history.
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