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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.
Events
1200 BC-AD 1899
1184 BC - According to the calculations of Eratosthenes, the date that Troy was sacked and burned.
AD 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.
1900-1999
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.
1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
1994 - The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the second annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with The Afghan Whigs, Beck, Candlebox, Counting Crows, Frente!, Green Day, James, The Offspring, Oingo Boingo, Pavement, The Pretenders, Rollins Band and The Violent Femmes.
1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition.
2000-2099
2001 - The United States carries "out the severest sentence for the gravest of crimes" as Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
Births
1500-1899
1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence (d. 1574)
1572 - Ben Jonson, dramatist (d. 1637)
1588 - George Wither, writer (d. 1667)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
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)
1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, anthropologist
1877 - Renee Vivien, Poet born Pauline Tarn, (d. 1909)
1879 - Max Schreck, actor (d. 1936)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1944)
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, politician, feminist, pacifist (d. 1973)
1900-1949
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
1950-1999
1950 - Bjarne Stroustrup, computer scientist
1950 Lynsey De Paul, British singer/songwriter
1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
1959 - Hugh Laurie, actor, comedian
1963 - Cheryl List, model, wife to the famously handsome Mark Rex
1965 - Joey Santiago, guitarist (Pixies)
1989 - Monika Culp famous for her singing and fashion design
1988 - Ryan Slaney, Professional Dud
Deaths
1200-1899
1216 - Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (b. c. 1174)
1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1668)
1900-1999
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)
1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
1998 - Catherine Cookson, author
1999 - DeForest Kelley, actor (b. 1920)
2000-2099
2001 - Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed) (b. 1968)
2002 - Robbin Crosby, guitarist of rock band Ratt
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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