Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 11
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On May 11:
- 330 - Byzantium was renamed Constantinople.
- 1894 - 3,000 Pullman workers started the "wildcat" Pullman Strike.
- 1904 - 100th anniversary: Artist Salvador Dalí born in Figueres, Catalonia
- 1960 - Mossad agents abducted fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, hiding in Argentina.
- 1987 - The first heart-lung transplant took place (Baltimore, Maryland).
- 1995 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely.