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May 11

On This Day in History

May 11

May 11 is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 234 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026: Illinois Lottery shells out $7.1 million after players win big with 7-7-7-7. Thousands of Illinois lottery players won big when their Pick 4 game drew the combination 7-7-7-7, with more than $7 million in winnings paid out across the state.
2025: Arkansas man, inspired by wife's $50 lottery win, lands $200,000 prize the next day. After an Arkansas woman won a lucky $50 prize in the lottery, her husband, inspired by the win, scooped up a $200,000 prize in the same game the very next day.
2024: Virginia Lottery retailers escalate boycott, halt ALL lottery ticket sales until further notice. Nearly a month after hundreds of Virginia Lottery retailers participated in a temporary boycott of ticket sales to protest the ban of skill games, many of those stores are now refusing to sell tickets altogether.
2021: Minnesota Lottery to discontinue Lucky for Life. The Minnesota Lottery revealed that it will no longer offer the Lucky for Life multi-state draw game after the drawing on Jun. 28, 2021.
2021: Australian man who won lottery five times has "been to hell and back". An Australian man who won the lottery five times revealed that his life has been anything but glamorous.
2020: Man waiting to cash in $1,000 lottery ticket wins another $177,777. A Virginia man waiting to cash in his $1,000 winning lottery ticket ended up winning an additional $177,777 before collecting his prize.
2020: Great-grandmother will give away her $1.8 million lottery jackpot. An Australian great-grandmother has proven she is just as generous as she is lucky by announcing she will be giving much of her $1.8 million (US$1.2 million) lottery win to her family.
2016: Investigators find another friend of Tipton who cashed rigged lottery prize. A friend of the former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association who is implicated in a jackpot-fixing scandal was given a winning Kansas Lottery ticket worth $15,000 in 2011 as an engagement gift, she said Wednesday.
2016: Lottery scam investigation comes to Tennessee. The Tennessee Education Lottery is cooperating with investigators as they look into one of the most elaborate lottery scams in U.S. history.
2014: Rhode Island Lottery starts midday drawings. Rhode Island Lottery fans now have another opportunity to win big.
2013: $170 MILLION: Mega Millions back into the realm of monster jackpots. As Powerball has been grabbing headlines for its frequent big jackpots, the United States's other huge multi-state game, Mega Millions, has been quietly and steadily increasing its jackpot.
2010: Colorado Lottery starts Mega Millions sales Sunday. The Colorado Lottery will begin selling Mega Millions tickets Sun., May 16, giving Colorado residents two more chances every week to score big jackpots.
2009: N.J. Lottery to end live broadcast of midday drawing. Beginning Friday, the New Jersey Lottery Commission will stop airing live drawings at 1 p.m. on the state's public television network in an effort to save money.
2009: Nevada Gov. flip-flops on lottery. Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons might not remember it, but the record shows he has flip-flopped on the issue of a state lottery.
2006: Powerball lottery jackpot reaches $100 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, the jackpot grew to an estimated $100 million, with a cash option of $44.7 million.
2006: Ohio lottery winner to share winnings. The winner of a $1 million Ohio lottery scratch game jackpot will share his prize among his seven children.
2006: Kansas lottery tickets to be shredded, not scratched. A state law is forcing the Kansas Lottery to shred an estimated 400,000 unsold scratch-off tickets -- including thousands of dollars worth of jackpot winners.
2006: Pennsylvania jury clears defendant of lottery deception. A Pennsylvania man didn't strike it rich with a phony Powerball ticket, but he won a victory yesterday when a Dauphin County jury decided he didn't do anything wrong.
2006: UK Internet lottery making owners wealthy. A new Internet-based lottery, which is supposed to donate its proceeds to charity, is instead enriching its owners to the tune of £10 million (US$18.7 million).
2005: Winner of $56 Million CA Lottery Jackpot Too Busy To Claim Prize. The lucky winner of a $56 million California SuperLOTTO Plus jackpot did not have the time to claim his ticket because he "had to work a double shift and would try to come back sometime later this week."
2005: 'Classic' lottery game replacing Michigan Winfall. When Classic Lotto 47 launches Sunday, nostalgic Michigan lottery players will get a new crack at an old favorite. But, against player preference, the Michigan Lottery will be conducting the drawings using a computer instead of a real lottery machine.
2005: Fortune cookie bet made Powerball lottery players rich. On March 30, over a hundred Powerball lottery players won $100,000 playing numbers from inside fortune cookies, and all the cookies came from the same factory in Long Island City, Queens.
2004: NY Lotto inching closer to all-time high. The New York Lotto is two rollovers away from its all-time high of $55 million.
2004: Lottery bill would let N.C. counties decide to join. The North Carolina Legislature's newest lottery bill would give counties the option to participate in a state-run numbers game in which they would receive a portion of the proceeds for school construction.
2004: Powerball lottery win energizes Pennsylvania neighborhood. Residents near the Bucks County convenience store that sold the winning $213 million Powerball ticket are thrilled to have such a big winner in their midst.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$402 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 11, 2021
2.$363 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2024
3.$316 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2019
4.$270 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 11, 2013
5.$257 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 12, 2018
6.$248 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2020
7.$235 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 11, 2019
8.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2026
9.€202.67 Million US$210.98 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 12, 2022
10.€163 Million
US$191.49 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 12, 2026
11.$184 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2017
12.€150.62 Million
US$179.24 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 11, 2021
13.€123 Million
US$174.48 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2011
14.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2013
15.€150.5 Million
US$169.06 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 11, 2019
16.$168.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 12, 2021
17.$166 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2008
18.$161 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2016
19.€137 Million
US$152.82 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2025
20.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2015
21.$129 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2009
22.$126.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2023
23.€99 Million
US$123.06 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2010
24.$121 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2014
25.$112 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 11, 2007

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: dadoune345
Saturday, May 11, 1985
41 years old
1984: TNmatt
Friday, May 11, 1984
42 years old
1980: Divasmom40
Sunday, May 11, 1980
46 years old
1975: DianaVargas1975
Sunday, May 11, 1975
51 years old
1970: yellowgal
Monday, May 11, 1970
56 years old
1969: dallascowboyfan
Sunday, May 11, 1969
57 years old
1968: Tommygirl75
Saturday, May 11, 1968
58 years old
1962: mysteque
Friday, May 11, 1962
64 years old
1958: MAMA2222
Sunday, May 11, 1958
68 years old
1946: coolbob5
Saturday, May 11, 1946
80 years old
: BLUE FOXX
(year not provided)
: luckydoc
(year not provided)
: Astanjay
(year not provided)
: SassyCC
(year not provided)
: zeegee$
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2024: Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
2024: The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland wins with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
2022: The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
2022: 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.
2016: One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
2014: 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.
2013: Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
2011: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
2011: The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.
2010: 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.
2009: An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
2009: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2000: Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
1997: 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.
1996: 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.
1987: Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
1985: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
1973: Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
1973: Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.
1970: The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
1919: Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1894: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
1889: An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
1880: Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1878: Hödel assassination attempt by anarchist Max Hödel targeting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I.
1857: Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1813: William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.
1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1713: Great Northern War: After losing the Battle of Helsinki to the Russians, the Swedish and Finnish troops burn the entire city, so that it would not remain intact in the hands of the Russians.
1560: The Ottoman naval forces inflict a defeat on a Spanish fleet in the battle of Djerba. This marks the highpoint of Ottoman naval dominance in the Mediterranean, which starts declining five years later after the failed siege of Malta.
1258: Louis IX of France and James I of Aragon sign the Treaty of Corbeil, renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the House of Barcelona from the politics of France.
1068: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned Queen of England.
973: In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.
868: A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, the earliest dated and printed book known.
330: Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Births On This Day

2006: Konsta Helenius, Finnish ice hockey player
2003: Fermín López, Spanish footballer
2000: Yūki Tsunoda, Japanese racing driver
2000: Wang Chuqin, Chinese table tennis player
1999: Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
1998: Viktória Kužmová, Slovak tennis player
1997: Coi Leray, American rapper and singer
1997: Lana Condor, American actress
1996: Adin Hill, Canadian ice hockey player
1995: Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
1995: Sachia Vickery, American tennis player
1995: Shira Haas, Israeli actress
1994: Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
1994: Nene Macdonald, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1993: Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
1993: Miguel Sanó, Dominican baseball player
1992: Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
1992: Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer
1992: Bobi, Portuguese Rafeiro do Alentejo, oldest recorded dog (died 2023)
1989: Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989: Cam Newton, American football player
1988: Jeremy Maclin, American football player
1988: Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
1987: Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor
1986: Abou Diaby, French footballer
1986: Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer
1985: Beau Ryan, Australian rugby league player and television host
1984: Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
1983: Matt Leinart, American football player
1983: Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist (died 2014)
1983: Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model
1982: Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (died 2013)
1981: Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1981: JP Karliak, American actor, voice actor and comedian
1978: Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
1978: Judy Ann Santos, Filipino actress
1977: Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer
1977: Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1977: Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
1976: Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper and record producer/executive
1975: Francisco Cordero, Dominican baseball player
1975: Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese terrorist, September 11 attacks (died 2001)
1974: Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1970: Harold Ford Jr., American lawyer and politician
1969: Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach
1969: Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner
1967: Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager
1964: Tim Blake Nelson, American actor
1964: Bobby Witt, American baseball player
1963: Natasha Richardson, English actress (died 2009)
1958: Sayuri Kume, Japanese singer-songwriter
1957: Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician
1955: James L. Dolan, American businessman
1954: John Gregory, English footballer and manager
1951: Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta
1950: Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author
1950: Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (died 2014)
1948: Nirj Deva, British politician
1948: Pam Ferris, Welsh actress
1947: Butch Trucks, American drummer (died 2017)
1945: Hilda Pérez Carvajal, Venezuelan biologist
1943: Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician
1941: Eric Burdon, English musician
1941: Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2024)
1937: Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
1934: Jim Jeffords, American lawyer and politician (died 2014)
1934: Jack Twyman, American basketball player (died 2012)
1933: Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader
1932: Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer (died 2026)
1930: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (died 2002)
1930: Basil H. Losten, American Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch (died 2024)
1929: Gerhard Klingenberg, Austrian actor (died 2024)
1927: Bernard Fox, British actor (died 2016)
1927: Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (died 2007)
1925: Edward J. King, American politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (died 2006)
1924: Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
1916: Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
1912: Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (died 1955)
1911: Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (died 1985)
1907: Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
1905: Lise de Baissac, Mauritian SOE agent, war hero (died 2004)
1905: Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (died 1964)
1904: Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989)
1903: Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (died 1993)
1901: Rose Ausländer, poet and author (died 1988)
1901: Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (died 1967)
1897: Robert E. Gross, American businessman (died 1961)
1896: Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (died 1955)
1895: Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (died 1978)
1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
1895: William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (died 1978)
1894: Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (died 1991)
1890: Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (died 1958)
1890: Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (died 1984)
1889: Paul Nash, British painter (died 1946)
1888: Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (died 1989)
1888: Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (died 1945)
1881: Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (died 1964)
1881: Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (died 1944)
1881: Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (died 1963)
1875: Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (died 1912)
1871: Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (died 1943)
1869: Archibald Warden, English tennis player (died 1943)
1854: Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (died 1932)
1852: Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (died 1918)
1811: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (died 1893)
1811: Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese-American showmen, the original conjoined twins (died 1874)
1797: José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician (died 1867)
1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (died 1840)
1715: Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (died 1739)
1578: Sophie Axelsdatter Brahe, Danish noblewoman (died 1646)
1571: Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (died 1637)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Susan Backlinie, American actress and stuntwoman (born 1946)
2021: Colt Brennan, American quarterback (born 1983)
2021: Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (born 1914)
2020: Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor (born 1927)
2019: Peggy Lipton, American actress, model, and singer (born 1946)
2019: Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (born 1952)
2011: Robert Traylor, American basketball player (born 1977)
2010: Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (born 1904)
2009: Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1926)
2009: Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (born 1939)
2009: Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (born 1915)
2008: John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (born 1953)
2007: Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (born 1913)
2006: Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (born 1935)
2005: Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (born 1908)
2005: Horton Davies, Welsh minister and historian (born 1916)
2003: Noel Redding, English bass player (born 1945)
2002: Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1912)
2002: Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (born 1915)
2001: Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (born 1952)
1994: Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)
1991: Ulyana Barkova, Russian farm worker (born 1906)
1990: Stratos Dionysiou, Greek Singer, composer and lyricist (born 1935)
1988: Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (born 1912)
1987: James Jesus Angleton, CIA counterintelligence leader (born 1917)
1986: Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (born 1894)
1985: Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (born 1900)
1983: Zenna Henderson, American writer (born 1917)
1981: Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1981: Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
1980: Dyre Vaa, Norwegian sculptor and painter (born 1903)
1979: Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
1967: James E. Brewton, American painter (born 1930)
1964: Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (born 1901)
1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
1960: John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (born 1874)
1955: Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (born 1874)
1946: Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1915)
1938: George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (born 1858)
1929: Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (born 1864)
1927: Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
1920: James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (born 1878)
1920: William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (born 1837)
1918: George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (born 1861)
1916: Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (born 1873)
1908: Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
1889: John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (born 1801)
1882: Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (born 1816)
1849: Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (born 1777)
1848: Tom Cribb, English boxer (born 1781)
1812: Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1762)
1779: John Hart, American lawyer and politician (born 1711)
1778: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1708)
1610: Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (born 1552)
912: Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (born 866)

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