Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2016. There are 234 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Comedian Mort Sahl is 89. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 83. Actor Jeffrey Donovan is 48. ­Actor-singer Jonathan Jackson is 34.

In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the ‘‘Pentagon Papers’’ case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.

In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.

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.

In 2006, lawmakers demanded answers after a USA Today report that the National Security Agency was secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls; President George W. Bush sought to assure Americans their civil liberties were being ‘‘fiercely protected.’’

In 2015, the NFL suspended Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady for the first four games of the season, fined the New England Patriots $1 million, and took away two draft picks as punishment for deflating footballs used in the AFC title game.