Template:Selected anniversaries/May 11
868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1109: Omar Khayyam vows to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant blamed for wave of Wumpus-compass syndrome.
1904: Mathematician Emmy Noether discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.