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On this day in history...1310 – Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1894 - Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois went on strike.
1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
1960 – The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1972 - John Lennon appeared on the "Dick Cavett" TV show and said that the FBI had tapped his phone.
1997 – IBM 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.
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão.
Sharing its May 11th birthdate areJohn Lowell 1799
Chang and Eng Bunker 1811
Walter Goodman 1838
Martha Graham 1894
Herbert Murrill 1909
Edsger Dijkstra 1930
Rachel Billington 1942
Kris Novoselic (Nirvana) 1958
John Parrott 1964
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