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    Photos: Today in History for May 11

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    MEXICO VOLKSWAGEN
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    MEXICO VOLKSWAGEN

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    • Updated May 10, 2022

    This Volkswagen with a wrought iron bodywork was spotted on the streets of the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta on May 11, 1976. (AP Photo)

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    Britain Election

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    The motorcade carrying Britain's former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, leaves his former official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, Tuesday May 11, 2010. Conservatives' David Cameron has entered 10 Downing Street as new Prime Minister promising to lead Britain through to "better times ahead". (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

    England Bradford Soccer Fire
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    England Bradford Soccer Fire

    • John Redman
    • Updated May 10, 2022

    Forensic experts and police comb through the charred remains of a wooden soccer stand at Bradford's Valley Parade football ground in England in May 1985, after a fire had raged during a match on May 11, resulting in 53 deaths and many injuries. The fire, fanned by a strong wind, quickly swept through the stand in minutes, trapping many of the victims. (AP Photo/John Redman)

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    Willie Mays

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    • Updated May 10, 2022

    Former San Francisco Giants Willie Mays looks over New York's Shea Stadium on Thursday, May 11, 1972 in New York after being traded to play for the New York Mets. The trade that brings Mays back to New York sent Charlie Williams, a young minor league pitcher, and an undisclosed sum of money to the Giants. (AP Photo/Ray Howard

    Henry Aaron with Joe Torre and Gary Geiger
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    Henry Aaron with Joe Torre and Gary Geiger

    • Horace Cort
    • Updated May 10, 2022

    Atlanta outfielder Henry Aaron is congratulated by teammates Joe Torre (15) and Gary Geiger (31), who had walked, after he hit his 10th homer of the season at night on May 11, 1966 in Atlanta. The first-inning homer in Atlanta, Aaron’s 408th of his major league career, made the slugger the 10th best home run hitter in baseball history. Aaron also hit a three-run homer in the fifth against Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

    Salvador Dali
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    Salvador Dali

    • Eustache Cardenas
    • Updated May 10, 2022

    Spanish painter Salvador Dali, presents his first Chrono-Hologram in Paris, France, May 21, 1973. Holography is a new device of registering objects in three dimensions. It is realized from a photographic plate light by a reference beam of long coherence length (lasers) set by the object which receives also part of the beam. (AP Photo/Eustache Cardenas)

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    MEXICO VOLKSWAGEN

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    This Volkswagen with a wrought iron bodywork was spotted on the streets of the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta on May 11, 1976. (AP Photo)

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    Britain Election

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    The motorcade carrying Britain's former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, leaves his former official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, Tuesday May 11, 2010. Conservatives' David Cameron has entered 10 Downing Street as new Prime Minister promising to lead Britain through to "better times ahead". (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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    England Bradford Soccer Fire

    England Bradford Soccer Fire

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    Forensic experts and police comb through the charred remains of a wooden soccer stand at Bradford's Valley Parade football ground in England in May 1985, after a fire had raged during a match on May 11, resulting in 53 deaths and many injuries. The fire, fanned by a strong wind, quickly swept through the stand in minutes, trapping many of the victims. (AP Photo/John Redman)

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    Willie Mays

    Willie Mays

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    Former San Francisco Giants Willie Mays looks over New York's Shea Stadium on Thursday, May 11, 1972 in New York after being traded to play for the New York Mets. The trade that brings Mays back to New York sent Charlie Williams, a young minor league pitcher, and an undisclosed sum of money to the Giants. (AP Photo/Ray Howard

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    Henry Aaron with Joe Torre and Gary Geiger

    Henry Aaron with Joe Torre and Gary Geiger

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    Atlanta outfielder Henry Aaron is congratulated by teammates Joe Torre (15) and Gary Geiger (31), who had walked, after he hit his 10th homer of the season at night on May 11, 1966 in Atlanta. The first-inning homer in Atlanta, Aaron’s 408th of his major league career, made the slugger the 10th best home run hitter in baseball history. Aaron also hit a three-run homer in the fifth against Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

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    Salvador Dali

    Salvador Dali

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    Spanish painter Salvador Dali, presents his first Chrono-Hologram in Paris, France, May 21, 1973. Holography is a new device of registering objects in three dimensions. It is realized from a photographic plate light by a reference beam of long coherence length (lasers) set by the object which receives also part of the beam. (AP Photo/Eustache Cardenas)

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    In 1996: An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.

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