Historical timeline for May 11

Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.

The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.

The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.

Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.

One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.

Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.

Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.

The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.

David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.

An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.

India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.

Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.

Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.

Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.

Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.

Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.