On this day in History - Jun 11
- 1184 BC - According to the calculations of Eratosthenes, the date that Troy was sacked and burned.
- 0631 - Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sent envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
- 0758 - Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. The Arabs and Turks bicker and fight over diplomatic prominence at the gate, in order to present tribute before the other. A settlement was reached when both were allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace.
- 1183 - Henry the Young King dies (b. 1155). Son of Henry II of England.
- 1216 - Henry of Flanders dies (b. c. 1174). Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- 1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant was born (d. 1427)
- 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
- 1456 - Anne Neville was born (d. 1485). Wife of Richard III of England
- 1488 - King James III of Scotland dies.
- 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.
- 1519 - Cosimo I de Medici was born (d. 1574). Duke of Florence.
- 1540 - Barnabe Googe was born (d. 1594). English poet.
- 1557 - King John III of Portugal dies (b. 1502).
- 1572 - Ben Jonson was born (d. 1637). English dramatist.
- 1580 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.
- 1588 - George Wither was born (d. 1667). English poet and Puritan pamphleteer.
- 1594 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the creation of the Principalía [i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].
- 1671 - Colley Cibber was born (d. 1757). English poet.
- 1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti was born (d. 1749). Italian priest and composer.
- 1695 - André Félibien dies (b. 1619). French architect.
- 1696 - Francis Edward James Keith was born (d. 1758). Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal.
- 1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme dies (b. 1654). Marshal of France.
- 1713 - Edward Capell was born (d. 1781). English critic.
- 1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch was born (d. 1788). German astronomer.
- 1727 - King George I of Great Britain dies (b. 1668)
- 1741 - Joseph Warren was born (d. 1775). American doctor and soldier.
- 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1774 - Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.
- 1776 - Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
- 1776 - John Constable was born (d. 1837). English painter.
- 1796 - Samuel Whitbread dies (b. 1720). English brewer and politician.
- 1801 - Morte de D. António Pio, filho de D. João VI e D. Carlota Joaquina.
- 1805 - A fire consumed large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- 1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron was born (d. 1879). English photographer.
- 1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- 1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
- 1842 - Carl von Linde was born (d. 1934). German engineer and industrialist.
- 1846 - William Louis Marshall was born (d. 1920). American general and engineer.
- 1847 - Millicent Fawcett was born (d. 1929). British suffragist and feminist.
- 1847 - John Franklin dies (b. 1786). English sea captain and explorer.
- 1852 - Karl Briullov dies (b. 1799). Russian painter.
- 1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich dies (b. 1773). Austrian statesman.
- 1864 - Richard Strauss was born (d. 1949). German composer and conductor.
- 1866 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
- 1867 - Charles Fabry was born (d. 1945). French physicist.
- 1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber was born. American anthropologist .
- 1877 - Renee Vivien was born (d. 1909). English-born poet.
- 1879 - Max Schreck was born (d. 1936). German actor.
- 1879 - Roger Bresnahan was born (d.1944). Baseball player.
- 1880 - Jeannette Rankin was born (d. 1973). American politician, feminist, and pacifist.
- 1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti was bon (d. 1927). Italian anarchist.
- 1882 - Louis Maigret dies (b. 1804). Roman Catholic prelate.
- 1883 - Gonçalves Crespo dies (b. 11 Jan 1846). Brazilian-born Portuguese poet.
- 1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born (d. 1927). Italian anarchist.
- 1989 - Gagan Multani was born (d. 1889). Indian-born, Living In Canada, and a basketball player.
- 1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1894 - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner) was born (d. 1992). Canadian magician, The Professor.
- 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin was born (d. 1975). Soviet politician.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.
- 1898 - The Hundred Days' Reform started by Guangxu Emperor in hope to change social,political and educational institutions in China,however suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolishment of Imperial Examination in 1905.
- 1899 - Pope Leo XIII dedicates the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- 1899 - Kawabata Yasunari was born (d. 16 Apr 1972). Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist (1968).
- 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- 1902 - Ernie Nevers was born (d. 1976). American football player.
- 1903 - Alexander Obrenovic (b. 1876), king of Serbia, was assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- 1903 - Ernie Nevers was born (d. 1976). American football player.
- 1903 - Nikolai Bugaev dies (b. 1837). Russian mathematician.
- 1907 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- 1908 - Francisco Marto was born. One of the Portuguese vidents of the Fátima aparitions.
- 1910 - Jacques Cousteau was born (d. 1997). French explorer and inventor.
- 1910 - Carmine Coppola was born (d. 1991). American composer, director and songwriter.
- 1911 - James Curtis Hepburn dies (b. 1815). American missionary and linguist.
- 1913 - Risë Stevens was born. American operatic soprano.
- 1913 - Vince Lombardi was born (d. 1970). American football coach.
- 1914 - Gerald Mohr was born (d. 1968). American actor.
- 1914 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz dies (b. 1848).
- 1915 - Nicholas Metropolis was born (d. 1999). Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist.
- 1917 - King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
- 1919 - Richard Todd was born. British actor
- 1920 - Hazel Scott was born (d. 1981). West Indian-born singer.
- 1920 - Irving Howe was born (d. 1993). American literary and social critic.
- 1920 - Hazel Scott was born (d. 1981). West Indian-born singer.
- 1922 - John Bromfield was born (d. 2005). American actor.
- 1922 - Michael Cacoyannis was born. Greek Cypriot film maker.
- 1924 - Ed Farhat was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1924 - Théodore Dubois dies (b. 1837). French composer and teacher.
- 1925 - William Styron was born. American author.
- 1926 - Carlisle Floyd was born. American composer.
- 1927 - William Attewell dies (b. 1861). English cricketer.
- 1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón was born. Queen of the Belgians.
- 1930 - Charles B. Rangel was born. American politician.
- 1931 - Audrey Schuh was born. American soprano
- 1932 - William Forgan Smith becomes QLD Premier.
- 1932 - Athol Fugard was born. South African playwright.
- 1933 - Gene Wilder was born. American actor.
- 1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark was born.
- 1934 - Lev Vygotsky dies (b. 1896). Russian psicologist
- 1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
- 1935 - Liberia gains official recognition by the US.
- 1936 - Jud Strunk was born (d. 1981). American musician and comedian.
- 1936 - Chad Everett was born. American actor
- 1936 - Jaime Camino was born in Barcelona. Spanish film director.
- 1936 - Robert E. Howard dies (b. 1906). American author.
- 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, dies (b. 1895). British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire.
- 1937 - Carlos Eduardo Dolabella was born (d. 26 May 2003). Brazilian actor.
- 1937 - Reginaldo Faria was born. Brazilian actor and film director.
- 1937 - Robin Warren was born. Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- 1937 - Johnny Brown was born. American comic
- 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell dies (b. 1895). British aircraft designer.
- 1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
- 1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Nationalist government created the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt the Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
- 1939 - Jackie Stewart was born. Scottish race car driver, three-time F1 world champion and former F1 team principal
- 1939 - Bernard Purdie was born. American session drummer.
- 1939 - Christina Crawford was born. American actress and writer.
- 1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Airforce on the island of Malta.
- 1940 - Joey Dee was born. American musician (Joey Dee and the Starliters)
- 1941 - Daniel Carter Beard dies (b. 1850). Founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1945 - William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.
- 1945 - Adrienne Barbeau was born. American actress.
- 1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav was born. Indian politician.
- 1947 - Bob Evans was born. British racing driver.
- 1947 - Henry Cisneros was born. American politician, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- 1947 - Richard Palmer-James was born. British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp)
- 1948 - The Danish ship “Kjøbenhavn” struck a mine and sank in less than ten minutes, taking 48 of its 400 passengers with it. Luckily, another ship, “Frigga”, was close by and rescued many.
- 1948 - Dave Cash was born. Major league baseball player.
- 1949 - Frank Beard was born. Member of rock group ZZ Top.
- 1949 - Benjamin Vasserman was born. Estonian graphic artist
- 1949 - Tom Pryce was born (d. 1977). British racing driver.
- 1949 - Oton Župančič dies (b. 1878). Slovenian poet.
- 1950 - Bjarne Stroustrup was born. Computer scientist.
- 1950 - Lynsey De Paul was born. British singer and songwriter
- 1950 - Graham Russell was born. British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply)
- 1951 - Yasumasa Morimura was born. Japanese appropriation artist
- 1951 - Mark D. Siljander was born. Former Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan
- 1952 - Donnie Van Zant was born. American rock musician.
- 1953 - Peter Bergman was born. American actor.
- 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.
- 1955 - Yuriy Sedykh was born. Soviet hammer thrower.
- 1956 - First Puerto Rican Parade was held in Harlem, New York.
- 1956 - Joe Montana was born. American football player.
- 1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma was born. American jazz musician.
- 1959 - Hugh Laurie was born. English actor and comedian.
- 1961 - Caroline Quentin was born. English actress.
- 1961 - María Barranco was born. Spanish actress.
- 1962 - Erika Salumäe was born. Estonian cyclist, Olympian.
- 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 (b. 1897) burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
- 1963 - Bruce Kimball was born. American diver
- 1963 - Sandra Schmirler was born (d. 2000). Canadian curler.
- 1963 - Thích Quảng Đức dies for self-immolation (b. 1897). Vietnamese monk.
- 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.
- 1964 - Jean Alesi was born. French Formula One driver
- 1965 - Joey Santiago was born. Filipino guitarist (Pixies) .
- 1965 - Isadora Ribeiro was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1965 - Manuel Uribe was born. Mexican who was one of the world's heaviest people
- 1965 - José Mendes Cabeçadas dies (b. 1883). Portuguese politician who was the 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal
- 1967 - Isabela Garcia was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1968 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein was born. Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1969 - Bryan Fogarty was born (d. 2002). Canadian professional ice hockey player
- 1969 - Matt McGrath was born. American actor.
- 1969 - Peter Dinklage was born. American actor.
- 1969 - Steven Drozd was born. American drummer.
- 1970 - After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays officially receives her rank as a U.S. ArmyGeneral, becoming the first female to do so.
- 1970 - Earl Grant dies (b. 1931). American musician and singer.
- 1970 - Frank Laubach dies (b. 1884). Apostle of Literacy and Christian missionary.
- 1970 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino dies (b. 1921). American crime figure.
- 1971 - John W. Campbell Jr. dies (b. 1910). Science fiction writer, publisher, editor.
- 1972 - Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126
- 1973 - José Manuel Abundis was born. Mexican football (soccer) forward.
- 1974 - David Starie was born. British boxer
- 1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra dies (b. 1883). President of Brazil.
- 1974 - Julius Evola dies (b. 1898). Italian philosopher.
- 1975 - British author and lecturer Denis Hill is found guilty by a Ugandan tribunal of treason for criticizing Idi Amin.
- 1975 - Choi Ji Woo was born. South Korean actress and model
- 1975 - Thomas Bimis was born. Greek diver.
- 1976 - Tai Anderson was born. American musician (bass player for Third Day)
- 1976 - Jim Konstanty dies (b. 1917). American baseball player.
- 1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
- 1977 - Ryan Dunn was born. American actor.
- 1977 - Geoff Ogilvy was born. Australian golfer.
- 1978 - Altaf Hussain founded students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation a.k.a (APMSO) in Karachi University
- 1978 - Joshua Jackson was born. Canadian actor.
- 1978 - Ujjwala Raut was born. Indian supermodel.
- 1979 - Amy Taylor was born. Australian football (soccer) player, television presenter and model.
- 1979 - John Wayne dies (b. 1907). American actor.
- 1980 - Yhency Brazoban was born. Dominican born baseball player.
- 1981 - Richer Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake at Iran, killing at least 2,000.
- 1981 - Emiliano Moretti was born. Italian footballer.
- 1982 - Diana Taurasi was born. American basketball player.
- 1982 - Eldar Rønning was born. Norwegian cross-country skier.
- 1982 - Johnny Candido was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1982 - Joey Graham was born. American basketball player.
- 1982 - Steven Graham was born. American basketball player.
- 1983 - Jose Reyes was born. American baseball player
- 1984 - Vagner Love was born. Brazilian footballer
- 1984 - Enrico Berlinguer dies (b. 1922). Italian politician, Secretary-general of the Italian Communist Party.
- 1984 - Vagner Love was born. Brazilian footballer (CSKA Moscow)
- 1985 - A Fabergé Egg Was sold for £1,375,00 in New York.
- 1985 - Anja Rubik was born. Polish supermodel
- 1985 - Chris Trousdale was born. American pop singer and dancer
- 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan dies (b. 1954). American right-to-die cause célèbre
- 1985 - Sapfo Notara dies (b. 1907). Greek actress.
- 1986 - A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
- 1986 - Shia LaBeouf was born. American actor.
- 1986 - Chesley Bonestell dies (b. 1888). American-born engineer, architect, artist, illustrator.
- 1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
- 1987 - TiA was born. Japanese R&B singer.
- 1988 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
- 1988 - Yui Aragaki was born. Japanese actress and model
- 1990 - Óscar Acúrcio dies (b. 7 Aug 1916). Portuguese actor (Costa do Castelo , Leão da Estrela, O Parque das Ilusões, etc).
- 1991 - Cromwell Everson dies (b. 1925). South African composer.
- 1993 - Ray Sharkey dies (b. 1952). American actor ("Sonny Steelgrave" on Wiseguy).
- 1994 - Ivana Baquero was born. Spanish actress.
- 1996 - Brigitte Helm dies (b. 1908). German actress.
- 1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition.
- 1998 - David Mestre dies at 49. Portuguese poet and journalist.
- 1998 - Catherine Cookson dies (b. 1906). British novelist.
- 1999 - DeForest Kelley dies (b. 1920). American actor.
- 2001 - Silvio Berlusconi sworn as Italian Prime-Minister (Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri)
- 2001 - Timothy McVeigh (b. 1968) is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2001 - The United States carries "out the severest sentence for the gravest of crimes" as Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2001 - Amalia Mendoza dies (b. 1923). Mexican singer.
- 2002 - Antonio Meucci was recognised as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
- 2002 - Robbin Crosby dies. Guitarist of rock band Ratt.
- 2003 - David Brinkley dies (b. 1920). Television reporter.
- 2003 - O Cruzeiro Esporte Clube vence a Copa do Brasil ao derrotar o Flamengo por 3-1.
- 2003 - David Brinkley dies (b. 1920). American television reporter.
- 2004 - Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols was again spared the death penalty when jurors who'd convicted him of 161 murder counts deadlocked over his sentence.
- 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
- 2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral held at Washington National Cathedral.
- 2004 - Egon von Furstenberg dies (b. 1946). Swiss fashion designer
- 2004 - Xenophon Zolotas dies (b. 1904). Prime Minister of Greece and economist.
- 2005 - G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the poorest countries.
- 2005 - Vasco Gonçalves dies (b. 1922). Portuguese general and Prime-minister.
- 2005 - Juan José Saer dies (b. 1937). Argentine writer.
- 2006 - Portugal beat Angola 1-0 in Germany 2006 World Cup
- 2006 - Major Bruce Shand dies (b. 1917). Father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- 2006 - Michael Bartosh dies (b. 1977). Computer expert and author.
- 2006 - Neroli Fairhall dies (b. 1944). New Zealand archer.
- 2007 - Imre Friedmann dies (b. 1921). American scientist.
- 2007 - Mala Powers dies (b. 1931). American film actress.
- Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawai'i, United States, in honor of its first monarch, celebrated with floral parades, hula competition and festivals
- Feast of St Barnabas
- Davis Day, in remembrance of William Davis, observed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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