May 11th, 2008

May 11th in History

2004:
The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.

1997:
IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.

1976:
The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.

1944:
World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.

1894:
Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.