June 11
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
1900-1999
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 .
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
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 )
1671 - Colley Cibber , English poet (d. 1757 )
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
1950-1999
Deaths
1200-1899
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
Holidays and Observances
External links
June 10 - June 12 - May 11 - July 11 -- listing of all days
