Event:
Two art works set world records at a Christie's auction in New York, with Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers Version O' selling for $160 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Pointing Man' selling for $141.3 million
More Notable Events on May 11:
1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1967 100,000,000th U.S. phone connected
1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1927 Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
