June 11

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

Events

1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy was sacked and burned, according to the calculations of Eratosthenes.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon.
1580 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.
1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1774 - Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.
1776 - Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
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.
1907 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 - International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in 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.
1945 - William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.
1945 - Franck Committee recommends against a surprise nuclear bombing of Japan. ^*
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.
1956 - First Puerto Rican Parade was held in Harlem New York.
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
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.
1988 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
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.
2006 - Nintendo DS Lite released in North America.

Births

1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 - Anne Neville, wife 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)
1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
1776 - John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
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 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist, and pacifist (d. 1973)
1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist and fishmonger. (d. 1927)
1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
1903 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)
1910 - Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
1915 - Arnold Johnson, tuba player, a.k.a. Song and Wind (d. 1998)
1919 - Richard Todd, British actor
1920 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (d. 1981)
1922 - John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Ed Farhat, Professional wrestler better known as The Sheik
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
1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
1936 - Chad Everett, American actor
1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1937 - Johnny Brown, American comic
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1947 - Henry Cisneros, American politician, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1948 - Dave Cash, Major league baseball player
1949 - Frank Beard, member of rock group ZZ Top
1950 - Lynsey De Paul, British singer and songwriter
1952 - Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician
1953 - Peter Bergman, American actor
1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor and comedian
1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)
1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
1969 - Bryan Fogarty, Professional ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1978 - Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
1983 - Jose Reyes, American baseball player
1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor

Deaths

323 BC - Alexander the Great , King of Macedon (b. 356 BC)
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)
1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
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)
1963 - Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk, self-immolation (b. 1897)
1970 - Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), 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, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (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)
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)
2006 - Major Bruce Shand, Father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)

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
Davis Day, in remembrance of William Davis, observed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Roman Empire, Matralia in honor of Mater Matuta
Roman Empire, fifth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
2006 - Trinity Sunday
National Puerto Rican Day,Started in 1956,Festivals and Parades will be held

Liturgical feasts

Saint Barnabas, apostle, martyr in 62 AD PCP (Paris), WTS (Bruges), 6082, in red
Saint Eskil, medieval patron saint of the Diocese of Strängnäs in Sweden (later moved to June 12 outside that diocese in order not to collide with the Feast of Barnabas)
Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor Basel, Freising, Worms
Saint Reimbert, bishop of Bremen, confessor
Saint Aleidis of Schaarbeek (died 1250)
Blessed Flora (died 1347)
Blessed Tochumra, virgin Kilmore, Ireland
Blessed Tochumra, virgin Tochumra in Munster

External links

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