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What happened in history on this day: June 11?
On June 11 in ...
- 1488 - Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland.
- 1509 - Henry VIII weds Catherine of Aragon.
- 1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reached Hudson Bay.
- 1572 - Birth of Ben Jonson England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist).
- 1723 - Birth of J G Palitzsch first saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz.
- 1727 - Death of George I, king of England.
- 1727 - King George II proclaimed in England.
- 1745 - Birth of David A. Brearley in Lawrenceville, New Jersey; signed the U.S Constitution on behalf of New Jersey, chief justice of New Jersey (1779-89), first federal district judge for the US District Court for New Jersey.
- 1770 - Captain Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef.
- 1776 - Birth of John Constable in England; landscape painter (Hay Wain).
- 1788 - First British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, British Columbia.
- 1823 - Birth of James L Kemper; US Major General, hero at Battle of Williamsberg.
- 1864 - Birth of Richard Strauss in München, Germany; composer (Till Eulenspiegel).
- 1867 - Birth of Charles Fabry; found ozone layer in upper atmosphere.
- 1880 - Birth of Jeannette Rankin; US Congressman (Montana).
- 1882 - A violent anti-European disturbance in Alexandria, Egypt, results in about 60 deaths. The disturbance was due to British and French gunboats outside Alexandria.
- 1883 - Birth of Frank O. King in Cashton, Wisconsin, USA; Gasoline Alley cartoonist.
- 1886 - Birth of David Steinman in New York City, New York, USA; bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough).
- 1891 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #311 Claudia.
- 1895 - Birth of Nikolai A Bulganin in Gorki, Russia; premier of USSR (1955-58).
- 1899 - Birth of Yasonari Kawabata in Japan; novelist (Thousand Cranes).
- 1900 - Birth of Lawrence E Spivak in Brooklyn, New York, USA; news panelist (Meet the Press).
- 1901 - Cook Islands are annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand.
- 1903 - Birth of Ernie Nevers; NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals).
- 1905 - Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest train in world (New York-Chicago in 18 hours).
- 1907 - Birth of Paul Mellon; philanthropist/horse breeder (1964 Gold Baton).
- 1910 - Birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau in France; oceanic explorer aboard Calypso.
- 1911 - Birth of Russ Hodges in Dayton, Tennessee, USA; sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights).
- 1912 - Death of Arthur Welsh AKA Laibel Wellcher, Russian-American aviator, in a military plane accident at College Park airfield, Maryland; .Welsh set many flight records, including 2-man altitude record of 1860 feet.
- 1913 - Birth of Risë Stevens in New York City, New York, USA; mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera).
- 1913 - Birth of Vince Lombardi; American NFL coach (Green Bay Packers) (dies 1970).
- 1914 - Birth of Gerald Mohr in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Christopher - Foreign Intrigue).
- 1914 - Birth of Henry G Cisheros; American politician (Mayor-San Antonio, Texas).
- 1919 - Birth of Richard Todd in Ireland; actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident).
- 1919 - Sir Barton becomes first horse to win the Triple Crown.
- 1920 - Birth of Hazel Scott in Trinidad; singer/pianist (Hazel Scott).
- 1920 - Birth of Robert Hutton in Kingston, New York, USA; actor (Torture Garden, Rocket).
- 1920 - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for US President.
- 1922 - Birth of John Bromfield in South Bend, Indiana, USA; actor (Easy to Love).
- 1925 - Birth of William Styron in Virginia, USA; novelist (Confession of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice).
- 1926 - Birth of Carlisle Floyd in Latta, South Carolina, USA; composer (Slow Dusk).
- 1929 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1147 Stavropolis.
- 1931 - Birth of Lucianna Paluzzi in Rome, Italy; actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball).
- 1931 - Birth of Tab Hunter in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Tab Hunter Show).
- 1932 - Birth of Athol Fugard in South Africa; anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot).
- 1932 - E Delporte discovers asteroid #1222 Tina.
- 1933 - Birth of Jud Strunk in Jamestown, New York, USA; singer/comedian (Laugh-In).
- 1935 - Birth of Gene Wilder in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak).
- 1935 - Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting for the first time.
- 1936 - Birth of Chad Everett in South Bend, Indiana, USA; actor (Medical Center, Airplane II).
- 1936 - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia.
- 1937 - Birth of Johnny Brown in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA; comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams).
- 1937 - Marx Brothers' film A Day At The Races is released to theaters.
- 1938 - Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Bees, 3-0.
- 1939 - Birth of Jackie Stewart in Scotland; driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix).
- 1939 - King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at US President Franklin Roosevelt's party.
- 1940 - Birth of Joey Dee in Passaic, New Jersey, USA; actor (Hey Let's Twist, Two Tickets to Paris).
- 1942 - US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II.
- 1943 - (evening) 783 British bombers attack Düsseldorf, Germany. 130 acres of the city are destroyed, in 882 separate fires. 1300 people are killed, and 140,000 made homeless.
- 1944 - First Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of Saint Sava, New York City.
- 1944 - Birth of James "Ox" D A Van Hoften in Fresno, California, USA; astronaut (STS 41C, STS 51I).
- 1945 - Birth of Adrienne Barbeau; actress (Maude, Swamp Thing).
- 1947 - Birth of Henry G Cisneros; American politician (Mayor-Democrat-San Antonio).
- 1947 - WW II sugar rationing in the USA ends.
- 1950 - Birth of Debbie "Pokey" Watson; American 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968).
- 1950 - Birth of Michael Swan in Palo Alto, California, USA; actor (Duncan - As the World Turns).
- 1951 - Mozambique becomes an overseas province of Portugal.
- 1952 - Birth of Russell Hitchcock; rocker (Air Supply - "All out of Love").
- 1953 - Birth of Peter Bergman in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; actor (All My Children), singer (Starland Vocal Band).
- 1954 - Birth of Gary Fencik; NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears).
- 1955 - First jet magnesium airplane flown.
- 1955 - Eddie Arcaro ties record of six Belmont Stakes wins.
- 1956 - Birth of Joe Montana; NFL quarterback (San Francisco 49ers).
- 1957 - Twelve die in a train crash in Vroman, Colombia.
- 1959 - US Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book Lady Chatterley's Lover.
- 1960 - House in Pakistan packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30.
- 1961 - Norm Cash becomes first Detroit Tigers' player to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium.
- 1963 - CBS airs the last U.S. Steel Hour TV show.
- 1963 - Governor Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama.
- 1963 - US President John Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act".
- 1963 - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon.
- 1966 - Wallace Ford, actor (The Deputy), dies at age 68.
- 1967 - Birth of Clare Carey; actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock - Coach).
- 1967 - Race riot in Tampa, Florida; National Guard mobilizes.
- 1969 - John L Lewis, formed Congress of Industrial Organizations, dies at age 89.
- 1970 - Frank Laubach of Benton, Pennsylvania, taught reading through phonetics, dies.
- 1970 - Death of Frank Silvera of accidental electrocution at age 55; television actor (The High Chapparal, Gunsmoke, I Spy, Marcus Welby, Riverboat, The Untouchables, The Flying Nun).
- 1970 - US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base Libya.
- 1973 - Birth of Robby Kiger in Encino, California, USA; actor (Crazy Like a Fox).
- 1973 - Death of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in Irschenhausen, Germany; chief of staff to General von Rundstedt, devised a plan for the invasion of France through the Ardennes, commanded the 56th Panzer Corps.
- 1974 - Georgann Hawkins disappears from University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (Ted Bundy victim).
- 1977 - Dutch marines rescue hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland.
- 1977 - Seattle Slew wins Belmont Stakes and Triple Crown.
- 1979 - John Wayne, American film actor starring in over 250 films, dies at age 72 in Los Angeles, California after battling cancer for more than a decade. Notable films: Stagecoach (1939), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962). He produced, directed and starred in The Alamo (1960) and The Green Berets (1968), an won an Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.
- 1980 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #2531 Cambridge.
- 1981 - In Southern Iran, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. Three thousand people killed, many injured, and extensive damage in Kerman Province.
- 1982 - Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney, retains WBC heavyweight crown.
- 1982 - Universal releases the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial to theaters.
- 1982 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 returns to England from use as a troop transport for the British navy in its war to regain the Falkland Islands.
- 1982 - Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon.
- 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die activist, dies in Morris Plains, New Jersey at age 31 (born 1954).
- 1986 - Near the coast of Venezuela, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1986 - Paramount Pictures releases the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off to theaters in the USA.
- 1987 - Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win third consecutive term.
- 1988 - Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24 feet 8.25 inches).
- 1988 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at age 89.
- 1988 - Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at age 38.
- 1988 - New York Yankees' Rick Rhoden becomes first pitcher to designate hit (0 for 1 with an RBI).
- 1988 - Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela.
- 1989 - Youngest (age 17) male French Open champion and first US champion since 1955, Michael Chang upsets Stefan Edberg in the finals in five sets.
- 1991 - On the cruise yacht New Yorker, dubbed the "DOS Boat", in New York City harbor, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer unveil MS-DOS 5.0. It adds a full-screen editor, undelete and unformat utilities, and task swapping. GW-BASIC is replaced with Qbasic, based on Microsoft's QuickBASIC.
- 1993 - Universal releases the film Jurassic Park to theaters.
- 1993 - The TV series Cutters first airs.
- 1996 - Death of Brigitte Helm (stage name of Gisele Eve Schittenhelm), star of Metropolis.
- 1997 - The British House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
- 2001 - In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
- 2001 - Nintendo launches the Game Boy Advance portable game system in the USA.
- 2001 - NBC airs the first episode of TV show Fear Factor.
- 2002 - Death of Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (AIDS) (born 1959).
- 2002 - Antonio Meucci is recognized as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- 2003 - Death of David Brinkley at age 82; TV journalist (NBC Nightly News 1956-70, This Week with David Brinkley).
- 2004 - Death of Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (born 1904).
- 2004 - Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The decision comes on the third anniversary of the execution of his co-defendant, Timothy McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
- 2006 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS Lite handheld video game system in the USA. Case color is Polar White. Price is US$129.99.
- 2007 - Shreves sells at auction a block of 18 Great Britain 1840 1-penny stamps and a strip of six, unused, for US$1,150,000.
- 2007 - Home Box Office airs the final episode of TV show The Sopranos in the US.
- 2008 - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers in the House of Commons an unqualified apology to the assembled leaders of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people, for the poor treatment of them from 1870 to 1996. 100,000 aboriginal children were forced to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating them.
- 2008 - The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is launched.
- 2008 - Death of Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese prime minister (born 1922).
- 2009 - The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza has reached the pandemic level, the first time it has called a global flu epidemic in 41 years.
- 2010 - (to July 11) The 2010 World Cup of soccer/football is hosted in Africa for the first time, as South Africa begins the opening ceremony in Johannesburg, with 32 nations competing in 64 games.
- 2019 - Botswana decriminalizes homosexuality.
- 2020 - Death of Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, 10th Prime Minister of Gabon (born 1961).
- 2021 - (to July 11) The UEFA Euro 2020, hosted by 11 different countries, is held, and is won by Italy after beating England on penalties.
- 2021 - (to June 13) World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the corporate taxation of multinationals.
- 2023 - In New York City, New York, USA, the 76th Annual Tony Awards ceremony is held.
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical: Alex Newell in Shucked.
- Best Leading Actor in a Musical: J. Harrison Ghee in Some Like It Hot.
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