11 June History


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  • 1346    -    Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1509    -    Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
  • 1770    -    Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
  • 1798    -    Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta.
  • 1861    -    Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia.
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  • 1865    -    Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records.
  • 1895    -    Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 1903    -    King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.
  • 1915    -    British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
  • 1930    -    William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
  • 1934    -    The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.
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  • 1940    -    The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
  • 1943    -    The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
  • 1944    -    U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
  • 1963    -    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
  • 1967    -    Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire.
  • 1987    -    Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.
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  • 11 June Birthdays

  • 1572    -    Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet.
  • 1769    -    Anne Newport Royall, American newspaper reporter.
  • 1823    -    James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
  • 1880    -    Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress.
  • 1895    -    Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
  • 1910    -    Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.
  • 1913    -    Vince Lombardi, American football coach.
  • 1925    -    William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice).
  • 1932    -    Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys).