Sunday, May 11, 2025

History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com 
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
  • 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
  • 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.
  • 1997 - In New York, Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
  • 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.

No comments: