1500s / 16th century history on the 11th of June
1509 : Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon, his first wife of all his 6 marriages.
1700s / 18th century history on the 11th of June
1770 : Captain James Cook the British explorer ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, on the coast of Australia.
1776 : John Constable (RA) the English painter was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England (died in 1837 aged 60).
1800s / 19th century history on the 11th of June
1892 : The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1895 : Paris-Bordeaux-Paris motor race took place. It is often referred to as the first motorcar race in history.
1900s / 20th century history on the 11th of June
1933 : Gene Wilder the American actor was born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (died in 2016 aged 83).
1935 : Edwin Armstrong the inventor gave the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 : The London International Surrealist Exhibition opened.
1939 : Sir Jackie Stewart (OBE) the Scottish race car driver was born John Young Stewart in Milton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
1949 : Frank Beard the American drummer in ZZ Top was born Frankston, Texas, USA. Official website : ZZTop.com
1950 : Lynsey de Paul the English singer and songwriter was born Lyndsey Monckton Rubin in Southwark, London, England (died in 2014 aged 66).
1956 : Joe Montana the American football player was born Joseph Clifford Montana Jr. in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, USA.
1960 : Mehmet Oz aka Dr. Oz the American surgeon and television host was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Official website : DoctorOz.com
1962 : The first prisoners escaped from the Alcatraz Island federal prison. The 3 inmates, Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence prepared papier-mâché heads to resemble themselves in their beds, then broke out of the main prison building, and departed in an improvised inflatable raft.
1963 : Thích Quảng Đức the Buddhist monk burned himself to death with gasoline on a Saigon intersection in South Vietnam, to protest the lack of religious freedom.
1963 : John F. Kennedy addressed Americans from the Oval Office to propose the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to revolutionize American society with a guarantee of equal access to public facilities, put an end to segregation in education, and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
1979 : John Wayne the American actor died aged 72, after battling cancer for more than a decade. John Wayne was born Marion Morrison on the 26th May 1907, in Winterset, Iowa, and moved to Glendale, California, as a child. He was a football star at Glendale High School, before he found work as a movie studio laborer, where he befriended director John Ford. John Wayne’s first acting jobs were bit parts in which he was credited as Duke Morrison, a childhood nickname derived from the name of his beloved pet dog. Official website : JohnWayne.com
1986 : Shia LaBeouf the American actor was born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1998 : Compaq Computer paid US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation, which was the largest high-tech acquisition.
2000s / 21st century history on the 11th of June
2001 : Timothy McVeigh the American terrorist was executed by lethal injection, aged 33 (born in 1968). He was responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 people, and injured over 680 others.
2002 : Antonio Meucci was acknowledged for having a role in the invention of the telephone by the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1871 he submitted a patent caveat for his telephonic device to the U.S. Patent Office.
2004 : Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe, the Saturn moon.
2008 : The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into orbit.
2018 : 3 World Trade Center officially opened at 175 Greenwich Street, Manhattan, New York City, USA.
2021 : Geoffrey Edelsten the Australian medical entrepreneur died aged 78 (born in 1943). Official website : GeoffEdelsten.com.au
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