11 June History
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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).