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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

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.$316 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2019
3.$270 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 11, 2013
4.$257 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 12, 2018
5.$248 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2020
6.$235 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 11, 2019
7.€202.67 Million US$210.98 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 12, 2022
8.$184 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2017
9.€150.62 Million US$179.24 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 11, 2021
10.€123 Million
US$174.48 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2011
11.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2013
12.€150.5 Million
US$169.06 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 11, 2019
13.$168.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 12, 2021
14.$166 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2008
15.$161 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2016
16.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2015
17.$129 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2009
18.$126.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2023
19.€99 Million
US$123.06 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2010
20.$121 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2014
21.$112 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 11, 2007
22.€90 Million
US$102.72 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
May 15, 2015
23.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2006
23.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2015
25.$99 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2022

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: dadoune345
Saturday, May 11, 1985
38 years old
1984: TNmatt
Friday, May 11, 1984
39 years old
1975: DianaVargas1975
Sunday, May 11, 1975
48 years old
1970: yellowgal
Monday, May 11, 1970
53 years old
1969: dallascowboyfan
Sunday, May 11, 1969
54 years old
1968: Tommygirl75
Saturday, May 11, 1968
55 years old
1962: mysteque
Friday, May 11, 1962
61 years old
1958: MAMA2222
Sunday, May 11, 1958
65 years old
1946: coolbob5
Saturday, May 11, 1946
77 years old
: BLUE FOXX
(year not provided)
: luckydoc
(year not provided)
: Astanjay
(year not provided)
: zeegee$
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: the Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
2016: One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
2014: Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa 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.
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.
1985: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
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.
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.

Births On This Day

1999: Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
1998: Viktória Kužmová, Slovak tennis player
1997: Lana Condor, American actress
1996: Adin Hill, Canadian ice hockey player
1995: Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
1995: Sachia Vickery, American tennis player
1994: Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
1994: Nene Macdonald, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1993: Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
1992: Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
1992: Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer
1989: Alyssa Brown, Canadian artistic gymnast
1989: Giovani dos Santos, Mexican international 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
1987: Monica Roșu, Romanian gymnast
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 (d. 2014)
1983: Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model
1982: Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)
1981: Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1981: JP Karliak, American actor, voice actor and comedian
1978: Laetitia Casta, French model and 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-American baseball player
1974: Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1974: Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach
1974: Tony Warner, English born Trinidadian international footballer and coach
1973: Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner
1972: Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach
1970: Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1970: Jason Queally, English cyclist
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
1964: Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1963: Natasha Richardson, English actress (d. 2009)
1962: Steve Bono, American football player
1957: Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician
1955: John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven
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 (d. 2014)
1948: Jack Cantoni, French rugby player (d. 2013)
1948: Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician
1944: John Benaud, Australian cricketer
1943: Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician
1941: Eric Burdon, English musician
1941: Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach
1938: Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician
1937: Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
1935: Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1934: Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)
1934: Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)
1933: Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader
1932: Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
1930: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
1930: Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)
1927: Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016)
1927: Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007)
1925: Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1924: Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1921: Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)
1921: Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
1916: Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1912: Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955)
1911: Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2004)
1911: Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
1907: Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
1905: Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004)
1905: Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (d. 1964)
1904: Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
1903: Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)
1902: Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (d. 1984)
1901: Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988)
1901: Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967)
1897: Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1896: Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)
1895: Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)
1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (d. 1986)
1895: William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)
1894: Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1890: Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958)
1890: Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)
1889: Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946)
1888: Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)
1888: Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)
1881: Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
1881: Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1881: Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
1875: Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)
1871: Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)
1869: Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943)
1854: Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
1852: Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)
1811: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)
1797: José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician (d. 1867)
1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)
1715: Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)
1571: Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (d. 1637)

Deaths On This Day

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

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