Today in History

11 June

159 births · 100 deaths · 64 events recorded

Notable Births

All 159 ›

Katrina Scott

b. 2004

American tennis player (born 2004)

Billy Gilmour

b. 2001

Scottish footballer (born 2001)

Eartha Cumings

b. 1999

Scottish footballer

Sandra Schmirler

b. 1963

Canadian curler (1963–2000)

Joe Montana

b. 1956

American football player (born 1956)

Carlisle Floyd

b. 1926

American composer (1926–2021)

Hugo Wieslander

b. 1889

Swedish track and field athlete

Renée Vivien

b. 1877

British poet who wrote in the French language

Notable Deaths

All 100 ›

Brian Wilson

d. 2025

American musician (1942–2025)

Tony Lo Bianco

d. 2024

American actor (1936–2024)

Howard Fineman

d. 2024

American journalist (1948–2024)

Françoise Hardy

d. 2024

French singer (1944–2024)

Majed Abu Maraheel

d. 2024

Palestinian runner and footballer (1963–2024)

Rudi Altig

d. 2016

German cyclist (1937–2016)

Enrico Berlinguer

d. 1984

Italian politician (1922–1984)

John Wayne

d. 1979

American actor (1907–1979)

On This Day in History

All 64 ›

2013

Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

2012

75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

2012 Afghanistan earthquakes

2010

The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.

FIFA World Cup

2008

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

Prime Minister of Canada