May 11

May 11 is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by May 10, and succeeded by May 12. Following May 11, there are 234 days in the year.

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life— he is a man indeed!"

Events

• 1884 – Col. Olcott had his first sitting and examination with Messrs. F. H. W. Myers and J. Herbert Stack, a Committee of the Society for Psychical Research. Mohini and A. P. Sinnett were examined also.
• 1891 – Cremation of Mme. Blavatsky's remains at Woking Crematorium, Surrey.

Births

• 1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian writer, lecturer, and philosopher.

Deaths

• 1908 – Percy Edensor Sinnett, son of Alfred Percy Sinnett and Patience Sinnett, of tuberculosis (b. 1877).

Holidays and observances

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External links

• This Date in Wikipedia