June 11

Events

• 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy falls to the Achaeans
• 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier and crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America
• 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef
• 1788 - Russian explorer Gerrasim Izmailov reaches Alaska
• 1899 - Pope Leo XIII dedicates the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands
• 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin, Italy
• 1963 - The University of Alabama is desegregated
• 1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

Births

• 1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence (+ 1574)
• 1572 - Ben Jonson, dramatist (+ 1637)
• 1776 - John Constable, painter (+ 1837)
• 1842 - Carl von Linde, engineer and industrialist (+ 1934)
• 1864 - Richard Strauss, composer and conductor (+ 1949)
• 1867 - Charles Fabry, physicist (+ 1945)
• 1879 - Max Schreck, actor (+ 1936)
• 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, politician, feminist, pacifist (+ 1973)
• 1902 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (+ 1976)
• 1910 - Jacques Cousteau, explorer, inventor (+ 1997)
• 1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
• 1920 - Hazel Scott, singer (+ 1981)
• 1925 - William Styron, author
• 1932 - Athol Fugard, playwright
• 1935 - Gene Wilder, actor
• 1939 - Jackie Stewart, Formula One racing driver
• 1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
• 1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
• 1959 - Hugh Laurie, actor, comedian

Deaths

• 1216 - Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (* c1174)
• 1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, King of Serbia and Queen Draga
• 1924 - Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher
• 1936 - Robert E. Howard, author
• 1979 - John Wayne, actor
• 1971 - John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor
• 1986 - Chesley Bonestell, engineer, architect, artist, illustrator
• 1998 - Catherine Cookson, author
• 1999 - DeForest Kelley, actor
• 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed)
• 2003 - David Brinkley, television reporter

Holidays and observances

• Feast of St Barnabas
• Roman Empire - Matralia in honor of Mater Matuta
• Roman Empire - fifth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

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