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This day in history: 11 June

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312 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 11 June.
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2013: Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Holidays and observances

Brazilian Navy Day (Brazil)

Christian feast day: Alice of Schaerbeek

Christian feast day: Barnabas the Apostle

Christian feast day: Bartholomew the Apostle (Eastern Christianity)

Christian feast day: Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Schininà

Christian feast day: Blessed Yolanda of Poland

Christian feast day: June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Paula Frassinetti

Christian feast day: Riagail of Bangor

Christian feast day: Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé

Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Events

2013Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

2012Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

2010The first FIFA World Cup held on African soil kicks off in South Africa.

2008Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

2008The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

2007Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

2004Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

2002Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

2001Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

1998Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

1987Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.

1981A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.

1978Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.

1971The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.

1970After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.

1968Lloyd J. Old identifies the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.

1964World 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.

1963American 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 s

1963Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

1963John 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

1962Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.

1956Start 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.

1955Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.

1944USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.

1942Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.

1942World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

1940World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.

1938Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.

1937Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.

1936Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.

1936The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.

1920During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gather 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

1919Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.

1917King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.

1903A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.

1901The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.

1898The 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 aboli

1895Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.

1892The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

1882Nationalist riots break out in Alexandria directed against foreign domination. More than 50 Europeans are killed, including the British consul.

Born on this day

2004Katrina Scott, American tennis player

2001Billy Gilmour, Scottish footballer

1999Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer

1999Kai Havertz, German footballer

1997Jorja Smith, English singer

1997Kodak Black, American rapper

1997Unai Simón, Spanish footballer

1996Philip Billing, Danish footballer

1994Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress

1992Davide Zappacosta, Italian footballer

1991Daniel Howell, English Youtuber

1991Kyle Troup, American bowler

1990Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter

1989Maya Moore, American basketball player

1988Claire Holt, Australian actress

1988Jesús Fernández Collado, Spanish footballer

1988Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host

1987Gonzalo Castro, German footballer

1986Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper

1986Shia LaBeouf, American actor

1985Brad Jacobs, Canadian curler

1984Andy Lee, Irish boxer

1984Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer

1983Anna Maria Żukowska (born 1983), Polish politician and jurist

1983Chuck Hayes, American basketball player

1983José Reyes, Dominican baseball player

1982Diana Taurasi, American basketball player

1982Eldar Rønning, Norwegian skier

1982Jacques Freitag, South African high jumper (died 2024)

1982Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter

1981Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer

1981Kristo Tohver, Estonian footballer and referee

1979Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-Dutch footballer

1978Daryl Tuffey, New Zealand cricketer

1978Joshua Jackson, Canadian-American actor

1977Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer

1977Ryan Dunn, American stunt performer (died 2011)

1976Reiko Tosa, Japanese runner

1974Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player, coach, and manager

1973José Manuel Abundis, Mexican footballer and coach

Died on this day

2026Bajrakitiyabha, Thai royal, daughter of Vajiralongkorn (born 1978)

2025Brian Wilson, American singer and songwriter, co-founder of the Beach Boys (born 1942)

2024Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1944)

2024Howard Fineman, American journalist (born 1948)

2024Majed Abu Maraheel, Palestinian long-distance runner and football player (born 1963)

2024Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (born 1936)

2022Hilary Devey, English businesswoman, television presenter (born 1957)

2020Stella Pevsner, children's author (born 1921)

2019Billy McKee, Irish republican and founding member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1921)

2016Rudi Altig, German track and road racing cyclist (born 1937)

2015Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (born 1945)

2015Ian McKechnie, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1941)

2015Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (born 1930)

2015Ron Moody, English actor and singer (born 1924)

2014Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (born 1973)

2014Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (born 1952)

2014Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (born 1933)

2014Ruby Dee, American actress (born 1922)

2014Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1955)

2013Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1992)

2013Miller Barber, American golfer (born 1931)

2013Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

2013Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929)

2012Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (born 1917)

2012Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952)

2011Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1947)

2008Ove Andersson, Swedish race car driver (born 1938)

2008Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1922)

2007Mala Powers, American actress (born 1931)

2006Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (born 1944)

Quote of the day

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

Lao Tzu

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