On This Day, May 11
- 2024: Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
- 2024: The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland wins with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
- 2022: The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
- 2022: Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.
- 2016: One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.