It happened on a… May 11

2015

Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York.

1998

A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency. The coin is known as the euro.

1997

Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.

1981

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” (based on poetry by T. S. Eliot) directed by Trevor Nunn first premieres in the West End, London.

1947

The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.

1924

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1717

Founding of the Canadian commercial exchange; forerunner of the Montreal Stock Exchange.

0868

“The Diamond Sutra”, the world’s oldest surviving and dated printed book is printed in Chinese and made into a scroll.