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May 11 | |
| 1872 | Birth date of Morris Llewellyn Cooke, consulting management engineer, Rural Electrification Administration administrator, 1935-37. (died March 5, 1960) |
| 1885 | Birth date of King Oliver, cornetist and bandleader. (died 4/8/38) |
| 1888 | Birth date of Irving Berlin, songwriter. (died 9/22/89) |
| 1891 | Birth date of Henry T. Morgenthau, Jr., advisor to FDR. (died 2/6/67) |
| 1893 | Birth date of Roy Emerson Stryker, government official and documentarian. (died 9/26/75) |
| 1935 | FDR establishes Rural Electrification Administration. |