June 11

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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Events

• 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier and crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America.
• 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
• 1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
• 1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.
• 1899 - Pope Leo XIII dedicates the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
• 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
• 1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
• 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin, Italy.
• 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-Healy and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the Le Mans Grand Prix.
• 1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz.
• 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.
• 1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
• 1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition
• 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
• 2004 - United States observes a National Day of Mourning for former president Ronald Reagan, whose remains are interred today.

Births

• 1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence (d. 1574)
• 1572 - Ben Jonson, dramatist (d. 1637)
• 1776 - John Constable, painter (d. 1837)
• 1842 - Carl von Linde, engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
• 1847 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
• 1864 - Richard Strauss, composer and conductor (d. 1949)
• 1867 - Charles Fabry, physicist (d. 1945)
• 1879 - Max Schreck, actor (d. 1936)
• 1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1944)
• 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, politician, feminist, pacifist (d. 1973)
• 1902 - 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, singer (d. 1981)
• 1925 - William Styron, author
• 1932 - Athol Fugard, playwright
• 1933 - Gene Wilder, actor
• 1939 - Jackie Stewart, Formula One racing driver
• 1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
• 1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
• 1959 - Hugh Laurie, actor, comedian

Deaths

• 1216 - Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. c. 1174)
• 1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1668)
• 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876) and Queen Draga
• 1924 - Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher (b. 1837)
• 1936 - Robert E. Howard, author (b. 1906)
• 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire (b. 1895)
• 1949 - Oton Župančič, Slovenian poet (b. 1878)
• 1970 - Frank Laubach, Apostle of Literacy and Christian missionary (b. 1884)
• 1971 - John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor (b. 1910)
• 1979 - John Wayne, actor (b. 1907)
• 1986 - Chesley Bonestell, engineer, architect, artist, illustrator (b. 1888)
• 1993 - Ray Sharkey, actor ("Sonny Steelgrave" on Wiseguy)
• 1998 - Catherine Cookson, author
• 1999 - DeForest Kelley, actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed) (b. 1968)
• 2003 - David Brinkley, television reporter (b. 1920)
• 2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, former Greek prime minister (b. 1904)

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

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