Today is Thursday, May 11, the 131st day of 2017. There are 234 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Comedian Mort Sahl is 90. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 84. Jazz keyboardist Carla Bley is 81. Rock singer Eric Burdon is 76. Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly is 67. Martha Quinn, former MTV vidoe jockey, is 58. Cellist Perttu Kivilaakso is 39.
In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
In 1937, ‘‘SPAM’’ was registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.
In 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the ‘‘Pentagon Papers’’ case ended as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.
In 1985, 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
In 1987, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore transplanted the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim into a cystic fibrosis patient who gave up his own healthy heart to another recipient. (Clinton House, the nation’s first living heart donor, died 14 months later.)
In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
In 1997, IBM’s ‘‘Deep Blue’’ computer demolished an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov, winning the six-game chess re-match between man and machine in New York.
In 2002, the first official event was held a Gillette Stadium, a New England Revolution soccer game.
Last year, a white former South Carolina police officer already facing a state murder charge in the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Walter Scott was indicted on federal charges including depriving the victim of his civil rights.