SomeFacts | June 11

On this day - June 11

173 — Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the ...

631 — Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing ...

786 — A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at ...

980 — Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine ...

1011 — Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the ...

1118 — Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the ...

1157 — Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht ...

1345 — The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the ...

1429 — Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau.

1488 — The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought between rebel Lords and ...

1509 — Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.

1559 — Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of ...

1594 — Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local ...

1702 — Anglo-Dutch forces skirmish with French forces before the ...

1724 — Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du ...

1748 — Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later ...

1770 — British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great ...

1775 — The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, ...

1775 — The Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims, the last coronation ...

1776 — The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John ...

1788 — Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.

1805 — A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan ...

1825 — The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York ...

1837 — The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic ...

1865 — The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet ...

1892 — The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film ...

1895 — Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile ...

1898 — The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform ...

1901 — The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by ...

1903 — A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and ...

1917 — King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, ...

1919 — Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse ...

1920 — During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, ...

1936 — The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.

1936 — Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an ...

1937 — Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes ...

1938 — Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.

1940 — World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of ...

1942 — Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having ...

1942 — World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid ...

1944 — USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States ...

1955 — Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred ...

1956 — Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that ...

1962 — Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become ...

1963 — John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office ...

1963 — Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a ...

1963 — American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George ...

1964 — World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary ...

1968 — Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that ...

1970 — After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth ...

1971 — The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the ...

1978 — Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All ...

1981 — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least ...

1987 — Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the ...

1998 — Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment ...

2001 — Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City ...

2002 — Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the ...

2004 — Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon ...

2007 — Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

2008 — The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

2008 — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic ...

2010 — The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.

2012 — 75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in ...

2013 — Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by ...