June 11

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 11. From 1900 until now. June 11 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include José Bové (1953), Shia Labeouf (1986) and Hugh Laurie (1959). Several movies were released around June 11 over the years, such as Psycho in 1960 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and The Apartment in 1960 directed by Billy Wilder.
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2019 A committee of the US House of Representatives announces that it will hold a hearing next Thursday (June 20) to examine fuel efficiency standards, as the Trump administration presses for a rollback of an Obama-era schedule of 5% reductions in emissions per year. (Reuters)
2018 Economy of the United Kingdom: British retail chain Poundworld, which employs thousands of people, collapses into administration. (BBC)
2017 Marawi crisis: Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he is "not aware" of the United States providing support to the Philippine government's military intervention against Islamists in Marawi. Duterte also said that he "never approached America for help". (Reuters)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Fighting breaks out between ISIL militants and Afghan police in the Haska Mina District, Nangarhar Province, leaving six police officers and 15 militants dead, according to officials. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2015 Military intervention against ISIL: A US citizen fighting alongside Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) against ISIL is killed in action near Kobani. (Today's Zaman via AP)
2014 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): 2014 Mosul offensive: Insurgents continue their offensive, gaining control of the city of Tikrit, the second provincial capital to fall in as many days. At least 500,000 residents of Mosul flee the fighting and head east into Kurdish-controlled territory, while insurgents storm the Turkish Embassy and take 48 Turks hostage, including the Consul General. (Al Jazeera)
2013 2013 protests in Turkey:: Turkish police carry off dozens of lawyers, with reports that some have been kicked in the head and subjected to other assaults. (RT) (The Guardian)Police move past the barricades in Istanbul's Taksim Square, occupied by protesters. (AP via CBC News)Riot police fill Taksim Square with tear gas, while clashes between protesters and police continue into the night. (CNN) (Reuters)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 At least 4,300 Syrians flee into Turkey amid a government crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera)
2010 RPET5's 20th Birthday!
2009 The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as quotswine fluquot, is deemed a global pandemic,ref name=quotWHO level 6quot becoming the first condition since the Hong Kong flu of 1967ampndash1968 to receive this designation.
2008 Kosovo adopts a national anthem named "Europe"; composed by Mendi Menxhiqi, it comes without lyrics in any language to avoid offending the newly independent state's Serbian minority. (International Herald Tribune) (B-92)
2007 A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia rules that the United States government cannot indefinitely detain U.S. residents as ampquotenemy combatants.ampquot (AP via CNN)
2006 Iraqi eye-witnesses claim Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was briefly interrogated and kicked in the chest by the U.S. military before his subsequent death. (The Sunday Times)
2005 The G8 announces the cancellation of the multilateral debt of eighteen of the poorest countries in the world (BBC)
2004 Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The decision comes on the third anniversary of the execution of his co-defendant, Timothy McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
2003 Three 160,000 year old human skulls unearthed in Ethiopia bridge an important gap in the human fossil record and lend support to the ampquotout of Africaampquot single origin theory of human evolution.
2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2001 Nintendo launches the Game Boy Advance portable game system in the USA.
1998 Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
1997 In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
1996 Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US Senate to run for President
1995 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
1994 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
1993 Jurassic Park opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1988 Everything Your Heart Desires by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
1987 Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win third consecutive term.
1986 Amnesty International megaconcert
1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes
1983 Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1982 Movie ET The Extra-Terrestrial is released (highest grossing film).
1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (San Francisco)
1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
1978 Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens
1977 Dance & Shake Your Tambourine by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1976 Magnificent Marble Machine, last airs on NBC-TV
1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Washington
1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
1971 US ends ban on China trade
1970 US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base Libya.
1969 The Ballad Of John andYoko by The Beatles hit #1 in the UK
1967 A J Foyt and Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
1966 I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3
1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
1962 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1961 Winston Churchill, last airs on ABC-TV
1960 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
1959 US Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book Lady Chatterley's Lover.
1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1956 Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1951 New York Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1950 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1949 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah Country Club - Illinois
1948 The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
1947 WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)
1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1943 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1940 Italy declares war on allies / raids Malta
1939 King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at US President Franklin Roosevelt's party.
1938 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
1937 Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia.
1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
1928 A medical doctors' strike begins in Vienna.
1927 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded
1922 U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
1921 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president.
1919 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn Country Club - Massachusetts
1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
1907 Northants all out for 12 vs. Gloucestershire
1904 German Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
1903 Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenovic and his wife queen Draga.
1901 Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand.
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