On May 11, 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state. In...

May 11, 2005

On May 11, 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state.

In 1888 Israel Baline (songwriter Irving Berlin) was born in present-day Belarus.

In 1904 surrealist artist Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain.

In 1910 Glacier National Park in Montana was established.

In 1933 Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, was born Louis Eugene Walcott in Roxbury, Mass.

In 1943 U.S. forces landed on the Aleutian island of Attu, which had been captured by the Japanese; the Americans retook the island 19 days later.

In 1947 the B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron announced development of a tubeless tire.

In 1949 Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member.

In 1985, 55 people died when a flash fire swept a packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.

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 aboard.

In 1997 the IBM computer known as Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.

In 1998 Ameritech and SBC, the communications company once known as Southwestern Bell, announced details of a $56.6 billion agreement under which SBC would take over its Midwestern neighbor.

In 2003 the United States declared Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's Baath Party dead.