June 11

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June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and Observances
5 External links

Events

1184 BC - According to the calculations of Eratosthenes, the date that Troy was sacked and burned.
1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.
1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1774 - Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.
1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1866 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court]] is established in India.
1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.
1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia, was assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1907 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
1838 - An earthquake occurs in Belgium.
1935 - Inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin, Italy.
1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Airforce on the island of Malta.
1942 - World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1955 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the Le Mans Grand Prix.
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to apparently successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. No conclusive evidence has ever been found that they survived the escape attempt.
1963 - American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students from attending that school.
1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1964 - World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1970 - After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
1985 - A Fabergé Egg was sold for £1,375,00 in New York.
1988 - Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Wembley Stadium, London.
1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 - Antonio Meucci was recognised as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral held at Washington National Cathedral
2005 - G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the poorest countries.

Births

1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
1572 - Ben Jonson, English dramatist (d. 1637)
1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1671 - Colley Cibber, English poet (d. 1757)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1704 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
1776 - John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1847 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
1867 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist, and pacifist (d. 1973)
1903 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
1910 - Jacques Cousteau, explorer, inventor (d. 1997)
1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
1920 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (d. 1981)
1925 - William Styron, American author
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians
1932 - Athol Fugard, South African playwright
1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor
1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1950 - Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist
1950 - Lynsey De Paul, British singer and songwriter
1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor and comedian
1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)
1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player, Olympian
1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer

Deaths

1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1488 - King James III of Scotland
1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1668)
1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1904)
1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1924 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
1927 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1970 - Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
1979 - John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
1986 - Chesley Bonestell, engineer, architect, artist, illustrator (b. 1888)
1993 - Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (executed) (b. 1968)
2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)

Holidays and Observances

Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawai'i, United States, in honor of its first monarch, celebrated with floral parades, hula competition and festivals
Feast of St Barnabas
Roman Empire, Matralia in honor of Mater Matuta
Roman Empire, fifth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta