June 11 in history
Events on June 11
Notable events that happened on June 11 in past years.
- 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.
Wikipedia article: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation - 2007
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
Wikipedia article: 2007 Chittagong mudslides - 1987
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
Wikipedia article: Diane Abbott - 1970
After 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.
Wikipedia article: May 15 - 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.
Wikipedia article: John F. Kennedy - 1942
World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
Wikipedia article: Lend-Lease - 1936
Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.
Wikipedia article: Edwin Howard Armstrong - 1903
A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
Wikipedia article: May Coup (Serbia) - 1892
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
Wikipedia article: Limelight Department - 1805
A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
Wikipedia article: Great Fire of 1805 - 1770
British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
Wikipedia article: James Cook - 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).
Wikipedia article: Philip II of Spain - 1482
The Treaty of Fotheringhay is signed between the English and Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, the rebellious brother of king James III of Scotland.
Wikipedia article: English invasion of Scotland (1482) - 1042
Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita marries Constantine Monomachos, who is crowned the following day as Byzantine Emperor.
- 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".
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