Overview
- - The 11 May lists foreground the Council of Europe’s 2011 Istanbul Convention, a legal pact to combat gender-based violence that remains unratified by five EU members and gained the first EU-level law on the issue in 2024.
- - Salvador Dalí, a leading surrealist painter, was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, and his dreamlike images and sharp draftsmanship reshaped modern art.
- - Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 in Miami, and his funeral drew thousands with Rastafari symbols that reflected how his music carried spiritual and social meaning for fans.
- - The May 10 roundup recalls the 1869 completion of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in Utah, where the “golden spike” ceremony linked eastern and western lines and sped cross-country travel and trade.
- - The compilations span centuries, from the 330 consecration of Constantinople as Roman capital to May 10 births like Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós and “La Marseillaise” composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.