On This Day
May 11
1812 - British Prime Minister Spencer Percival was shot dead by J Bellingham.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1956 - Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that the Gold Coast was to become the first black African nation to be granted independence from Britain.
1963 - A British businessman Greville Wynne aged 44, accused of spying for the West was sentenced to eight years detention by a Moscow tribunal.
1985 - A fire at the Bradford City soccer ground killed 40 people and injured 150.
1998 - The Indian government announced that it had carried out a series of underground nuclear tests in a controversial move which shocked the world.
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