11 June
Notable Births
Katrina Scott
b. 2004
American tennis player (born 2004)
Billy Gilmour
b. 2001
Scottish footballer (born 2001)
Eartha Cumings
b. 1999
Scottish footballer
Kai Havertz
b. 1999
German footballer (born 1999)
Charlie Tahan
b. 1998
American actor (born 1998)
Kodak Black
b. 1997
American rapper (born 1997)
Unai Simón
b. 1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Jorja Smith
b. 1997
British singer (born 1997)
Philip Billing
b. 1996
Danish footballer (born 1996)
Ayaka Sasaki
b. 1996
Japanese idol singer (born 1996)
Ivana Baquero
b. 1994
Spanish actress (born 1994)
Davide Zappacosta
b. 1992
Italian footballer (born 1992)
Kyle Troup
b. 1991
American professional bowler (born 1991)
Christophe Lemaitre
b. 1990
French sprinter (born 1990)
Maya Moore
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
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
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)
Ornette Coleman
d. 2015
American jazz musician and composer (1930–2015)
Ron Moody
d. 2015
English actor, composer, singer and writer (1924–2015)
Dusty Rhodes
d. 2015
American professional wrestler (1945–2015)
Ruby Dee
d. 2014
American actress (1922–2014)
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
d. 2014
Spanish conductor and composer
Mipham Chokyi Lodro
d. 2014
14th Shamarpa of the Karma Kagyu lineage
Robert Fogel
d. 2013
American economist and Nobel laureate (1926–2013)
Vidya Charan Shukla
d. 2013
Indian politician
Ann Rutherford
d. 2012
Canadian-born American actress (1917–2012)
Teófilo Stevenson
d. 2012
Cuban amateur boxer (1952–2012)
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
d. 2011
Israeli business management guru (1947–2011)
Ove Andersson
d. 2008
Swedish rally driver (1938–2008)
Enrico Berlinguer
d. 1984
Italian politician (1922–1984)
John Wayne
d. 1979
American actor (1907–1979)
On This Day in History
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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
2008
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
2007
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
2007 Chittagong mudslides
2004
Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
Cassini–Huygens
2002
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
Antonio Meucci
2001
Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Timothy McVeigh
1998
Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
Compaq
1987
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
Diane Abbott
1981
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
Golbaf
1978
Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)
1971
The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
1970
After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.
May 15
1968
Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
Lloyd J. Old
1964
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
Cologne school massacre
1963
American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
Civil rights movement
1963
Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
Thích Quảng Đức
1963
John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
John F. Kennedy