May 11: Yom Hazikaron in Israel (2016)
Crossing of the Blue Mountains
- 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book.
- 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated the Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian "Pragmatic Army" at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present-day Belgium.
- 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition (pictured) to become the first Europeans confirmed to cross the Blue Mountains.
- 1946 – The United Malays National Organisation, today Malaysia's largest political party, was founded, originally to oppose the constitutional framework of the Malayan Union.
- 1996 – A severe blizzard on Mount Everest caused the deaths of eight climbers, helping make that year the deadliest in the mountain's history at the time.
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