May 11

Events

• 380: Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman Empire.
• 1934: Labour demonstrations in Kalamata turn bloody as police kill four demostrators.
• 1949: Greece votes against the partition of Palestine. The resolution, however, passes in the UN by 37 - 12.
• 1964: Two Greek officers and a Greek Cypriot policeman are machine-gunned to death in Famagusta. Another Greek officer is injured. The four men were in a vehicle that was stopped by Turkish-Cypriot irregulars.

Births

• 1771: Lascarina Bouboulina, heroine of the Greek Revolution

Deaths

• 2003: Vangelis Perpiniadis, singer, composer