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What Happened on June 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
2013	Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would open exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
2012	More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
2010	The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
2008	Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
2008	The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
2007	Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
2004	Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
2002	Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2001	Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998	Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
1987	Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
1981	A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
1978	Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
1971	The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
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 women to do so.
1968	Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
1964	World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks 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.
1963	American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963	Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963	John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
1962	Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1956	Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1955	Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1944	USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1942	World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1942	Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
1940	World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
1938	Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
1937	Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1936	The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
1935	Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
1920	During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1919	Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
1917	King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
1903	A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
1901	The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
1898	The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
1895	Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
1892	The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1865	The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
1837	The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
1825	The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1805	A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1788	Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1776	The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1775	The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
1770	British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1748	Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
1594	Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1559	Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of 1,500, intending to settle on gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico).
1509	Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1488	Battle of Sauchieburn: Fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the king.
1429	Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1345	The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
1157	Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first margrave.
1118	Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
1011	Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the Lombard rebels led by Melus and deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor (catepan) of the Catepanate of Italy.
980	Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
786	A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh.
631	Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang.
173	Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".

Famous People Born on June 11

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Year	Name
1908	Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (d. 1919)
1950	Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, cartoonist and actress (d. 2014)
1989	Maya Moore, American basketball player
1954	John Dyson, Australian cricketer
1902	Eric Fraser, British illustrator and graphic designer (d. 1983)
1672	Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
1969	Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer
1976	Reiko Tosa, Japanese runner
1982	Stephen Graham, American basketball player
1971	Liz Kendall, British politician

Famous People Deaths On June 11

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Date	Name
1557	John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1488	James III of Scotland (b. 1451)
1560	Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1515)
2006	Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
1683	Nikita Pustosvyat, a leader of the Russian Old Believers, beheaded
2001	Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
1934	Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (b. 1896)
1903	Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1837)
1962	Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
888	Rimbert, archbishop of Bremen (b. 830)