Historical Events on June 11

Events 1 - 200 of 235

• 1184 BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes
• 631 Emperor Taizong of Tang of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk for the release of Chinese prisoners captured during transition from Sui to Tang from northern frontier; succeeds in freeing 80,000
• 758 Diplomatic dispute at Tang Chinese capital Chang'an when Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks both arrive to offer tribute. Settlement reached when both enter at same time through two different gates.

• 1144 Basilica of St Denis is dedicated near Paris, the first fully Gothic church
• 1231 Harderwijk (Netherlands) becomes a city
• 1345 Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners
• 1429 Hundred Years' War: the start of the Battle of Jargeau (France)
• 1488 Battle of Sauchieburn, rebellion against the Scottish crown results in death of King James III
• 1517 British admiral Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
• 1572 Spanish co-land guardian Duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock
• 1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize North America

• 1644 Florentine scientist Evangelista Torricelli describes his invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci
• 1666 Four Days Battle - naval battle in the southern North Seas during Second Anglo-Dutch War: Dutch victory with ten English ships destroyed [OS 1-4 June]
• 1676 Battle at Öland: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden

• 1699 England, France & Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination Treaty of Spain
• 1726 Cardinal Fleury succeeds Duke of Bourbon as French premier

• 1774 Jews of Algiers escape attacking Spanish Army

• 1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
• 1788 Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska
• 1793 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
• 1797 Spanish Mission San José founded by Franciscan Padre Fermin Francisco de Lasuen at the Ohlone Village of Oroysom in Alta California (now Freemont, California)
• 1816 Gas Light Co. of Baltimore founded
• 1825 The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City
• 1837 The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans
• 1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, West Virginia - Confederate General Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed during the Civil War
• 1864 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf, in San Francisco, washed away in storm
• 1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught
• 1864 CSS Alabama, a Confederate screw sloop-of-war, arrives in port at Cherbourg, France
• 1864 The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War, begins in Louisa County, Virginia
• 1866 The Agra High Court (now the Allahabad High Court) is established in India
• 1870 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam

• 1878 DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)
• 1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted
• 1892 The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
• 1895 Charles Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
• 1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized

• 1898 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
• 1900 -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha

• 1901 Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand
• 1903 King Alexander I and his wife Queen Draga Mašin of Serbia are assassinated in the royal palace in Belgrade by a group of army officers led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević, as part of a military coup
• 1904 Chicago Cubs pitcher Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0
• 1904 German Lt. General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, German South West Africa
• 1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
• 1907 George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket
• 1907 Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
• 1911 The Greek national assembly adopts a more liberal constitution

• 1913 Grand Vizir Mahmud Shevket Pasha is assassinated, resulting in continuing Young Turk terrorism until WWI

• 1921 Brazil adopts women's suffrage
• 1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded
• 1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of Arbeiders Jeugd Organisatie (AJC) Socialist Youth Movement

• 1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
• 1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey
• 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England
• 1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races", directed by Sam Wood, is released in the US
• 1938 5.0 Earthquake in Belgium kills 2, strongest in 45 years
• 1938 Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
• 1938 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
• 1938 England cricket team declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge

• 1940 British Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
• 1940 Italy declares war on Allies
• 1940 World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy
• 1940 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta
• 1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
• 1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
• 1942 US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
• 1943 British invades Pantelleria (a tiny island south of Sicily)
• 1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
• 1944 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC

• 1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US (began May 28, 1942)
• 1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
• 1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
• 1951 NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off unclaimed items left behind on the trains

• 1953 "Amos 'n Andy" TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
• 1953 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
• 1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
• 1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman, Colorado
• 1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
• 1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
• 1959 Saunders-Roe SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, performs its first public flight
• 1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
• 1961 "Winston Churchill" last airs on ABC-TV
• 1961 Norm Cash becomes 1st Detroit Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium

• 1962 Brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Island prison, the only ones to do so

• 1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
• 1963 Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
• 1963 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"
• 1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference on a traffic island in the middle of Michigan Avenue
• 1964 Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do
• 1964 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
• 1966 "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
• 1966 "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3

• 1966 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hits #1 in UK
• 1966 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
• 1967 Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
• 1967 Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• 1967 Race riot in Tampa, Florida; National Guard mobilizes

• 1970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
• 1971 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
• 1971 US ends ban on China trade
• 1972 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in June
• 1972 Gun battle between Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries break out in the Oldpark area of Belfast
• 1972 KPAT-AM in Berkeley, California returns to original call letters KRE, marking 50 years since first on-air broadcxast
• 1973 Libya nationalizes Bunker Hunt concession; Nigeria acquires 35 percent participation in Shell-BP concession
• 1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Washington

• 1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
• 1975 Greece adopts constitution
• 1975 One-day international cricket debut of Javed Miandad aged 17 yrs 364 days
• 1976 "Magnificent Marble Machine" last airs on NBC-TV
• 1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa

• 1976 Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" compilation LP is released in USA
• 1977 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC and the Sunshine Band peaks at #1
• 1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
• 1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
• 1978 Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop
• 1978 Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

• 1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (San Francisco)
• 1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
• 1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
• 1981 Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake in Iran, kills at least 2,000

• 1982 Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon

• 1983 "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
• 1983 "Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
• 1983 "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12

• 1983 "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59
• 1983 "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61
• 1983 MLB Cardinals outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into Hyland Center in St. Louis, a drug rehabilitation facility
• 1983 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
• 1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
• 1984 Michael Larson shown winning record $110,237 on American TV game show "Press Your Luck" by memorizing patterns
• 1984 US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
• 1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
• 1985 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRs in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
• 1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
• 1986 "Blacke's Magic" last airs on NBC-TV
• 1987 George Galloway is elected as the MP for Glasgow Hillhead in the general election

• 1988 "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
• 1988 "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61

• 1988 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½")
• 1988 NY Yankees Rick Rhoden becomes first pitcher since AL's adoption of the rule in 1973 to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) in an 8–6 victory over Baltimore Orioles
• 1989 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Sawgrass: Orville Moody wins by 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Charles Coody
• 1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress

• 1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitutional

• 1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0

• 1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group

• 1992 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibition game, beat Venezuela 20-0
• 1993 "Jurassic Park", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
• 1993 "Scattergories" game show last airs on NBC-TV
• 1993 "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
• 1994 "Meet The Flintstones" by The B-52's (stylized for this release as The B.C. 52's) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33
• 1994 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
• 1994 Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden
• 1994 Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria
• 1995 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings

• 1996 Exxon states that it will begin work on its $15-billion Sakhalin I oil and natural gas development in Russia's Far East
• 1998 Compaq Computer pays $9.6 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation; largest high-tech acquisition at the time
• 2001 Saudi Arabia seizes ownership, effective June 7, of the 1.6-million-barrels-per-day IPSA pipeline that had carried Iraqi crude oil to the Saudi Red Sea port of Mu'jiz prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

• 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
• 2004 Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe

• 2006 60th Tony Awards: "Jersey Boys" (musical) & "The History Boys" (play) win

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