May 11 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma

..... Click the link for more information.

19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1890s  1900s  1910s  - 1920s -  1930s  1940s  1950s
1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929

Year 1926 (MCMXXVI
..... Click the link for more information.

Motto
"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"¹
Anthem
..... Click the link for more information.

20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1956 1957 1958 - 1959 - 1960 1961 1962

Year 1959 (MCMLIX
..... Click the link for more information.

Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most
..... Click the link for more information.

Een Beetje (sometimes `n Beetje, English translation: "A Bit", or "A Little Bit" more accurately) was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 performed in Dutch by Teddy Scholten representing the Netherlands, the second Dutch victory in the first four years of
..... Click the link for more information.

Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most
..... Click the link for more information.

Lys Assia (born March 3, 1926, original name Rosa Mina Schärer) is a Swiss pop singer. She was born in Rupperswil, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland.

As a young girl she was a dancer, but stood in for a female singer in 1940.
..... Click the link for more information.

Corry Brokken (born December 3, 1932 in Breda) is a former Dutch singer.

Brokken won the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, representing the Netherlands singing "Net als toen" (Like it used to be).
..... Click the link for more information.

Jacqueline Boyer (born Jacqueline Ducos, 23 April 1941) is a French singer, daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.

In 1960 she won the Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi", with music composed by André Popp and lyrics by Pierre Cour.
..... Click the link for more information.

Jean-Claude Pascal (b. October 24, 1927 in Paris, France as Jean-Claude Villeminot. d. May 5, 1992).

After surviving the Second World War in Straßburg, Pascal first studied at the Sorbonne-university and then turned to fashion-designing for Christian Dior.
..... Click the link for more information.

Isabelle Aubret (born Thérèse Coquerelle on July 27, 1938 in Lille, France) is a French singer.

Aubret won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 representing France and singing "Un premier amour" (A first love) with music composed by Claude-Henri Vic and lyrics by
..... Click the link for more information.

Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947) is an Italian singer.

Biography

She was born in Verona. At the age of 16 she won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non Ho L'Età" ("I'm not old enough"), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri.
..... Click the link for more information.

France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris) is a popular French yé-yé singer. Her father was lyricist Robert Gall, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois.
..... Click the link for more information.

Sandie Shaw

Background information
Birth name(s): Sandra Ann Goodrich
Date of birth: 26 January 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
Birth location:
..... Click the link for more information.

Massiel (August 2, 1947) (real name María de los Ángeles Santamaría Espinosa) is a Spanish singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la
..... Click the link for more information.

Frida Boccara (October 29, 1940 – August 1, 1996) was a French singer.

Frida Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco. At the Eurovision Song Contest held in Madrid, Spain in 1969 she represented France and performed "Un jour, un enfant" (One day a child) - music by
..... Click the link for more information.

Lenny Kuhr (born February 22, 1950 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch singer-songwriter.

In 1967 she started a singing career in the Netherlands, performing songs in the French chanson tradition.
..... Click the link for more information.

Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, OBE, (born 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actor, model, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s
..... Click the link for more information.

Dana Rosemary Scallon, singer and former politician, was born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951, in Islington, London, and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, her parents original home.
..... Click the link for more information.

Vicky Leandros (born August 23, 1952 or 1948) is a Greek singer with a long international career.<ref name="Vicky's age"> Vicky's age by means of the Way Back Machine (Internet Archive) <ref name="Vicky's age2">Bertelsmann Lexica She is the daughter
..... Click the link for more information.

Anne-Marie David, born May 23, 1952, is a French singer. She has the rare, although not unique, distinction of having represented two different countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, with considerable success on both occasions.
..... Click the link for more information.

..... Click the link for more information.

For other uses of the word teach-in, see teach in

Teach-In were a group who won the Eurovision Song Contest 1975, representing the Netherlands. Teach-In were Gettie Kaspers, Chris de Wolde, Ard Weenink, Koos Versteeg, John Gaasbeek and Ruud Nijhuis.
..... Click the link for more information.

Brotherhood of Man is a British pop vocal group formed in the 1970s, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with the country-pop-esque "Save Your Kisses for Me".

History

..... Click the link for more information.

Marie Myriam (born Miriam Lopes, May 8, 1957 in Braga, Portugal) is a French singer.

Representing France, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 with "L'Oiseau Et L'Enfant" (The bird and the child) with music by Jean-Paul Cara and words by Joe Gracy.
..... Click the link for more information.

Izhar Cohen (born March 13, 1951 in Giv'atayim, Israel) is an Israeli singer and actor.

Representing Israel, he won the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest with the group Alphabeta performing "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" with music by Nurit Hirsh and words by Ehud Manor.
..... Click the link for more information.

Alphabeta were a group of Israeli singers who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978 with Izhar Cohen.

The group consisted of Reuven Erez, Lisa Gold-Rubin, Nehama Shutan, Ester Tzuberi, and Itzhak Okev.

The winning song was called A-Ba-Ni-Bi.
..... Click the link for more information.

Avigail "Gali" Atari (born December 29, 1953 in Rehovot, Israel) is an Israeli actress and singer, who won the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Hallelujah.
..... Click the link for more information.

Milk and Honey were an Israeli singing group who performed with Gali Atari at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, where they won with the song "Hallelujah". They made two further attempts to represent Israel in the contest.
..... Click the link for more information.