Milestones for June 11

1184 BC

Greeks capture Troy after a long siege; on the advice of Odysseus, they built a large wooden horse, filled it with armed men and pretended to sail away. The Trojans, thinking the horse was an offering to the gods that would bring them luck, took it into their citadel. At night, Greek warriors climbed out of the horse, opened the gates to their fellow soldiers, and together they captured the city. The Greeks burned Troy and took Helen home to her husband. [traditional date]

1770 Queensland, Australia

Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovers the Great Barrier Reef by running onto it; had taken a landing party ashore in late May, becoming the first European to land on the Queensland coast; the settlement where he landed is called The Town of 1770. [picture: Lady Musgrave Island]

1727 London, England

George I, first Hanoverian ruler of Great Britain (1714-27), dies and is succeeded by his son George II, who ruled until his death on Oct. 26, 1760; George II was the last British sovereign to command troops in the field, at Dettingen against the French in 1743; inherited his father's love of opera, particularly the work of George Frederick Handel, who had been George I's court musician in Hanover; his wife Caroline revived traditional court life, and was an ardent supporter of Robert Walpole as Prime Minister. {picture: Equestrian portrait in the Tate Gallery]

1895 Narragansett, Rhode Island

World's first auto race on a closed circuit track takes place at Naragansett Park, currently a horse racing track. Also on this day in 1893, Charles Duryea is awarded the first US patent for a gasoline-driven automobile by an American inventor [picture: Duryeas racing at Naragansett]

1955 Le Mans, France

Three Grand Prix race cars crash, and one hurtles into the grandstand at Le Mans, killing 82 spectators and injuring over 100 others.

1987 Britain

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office; her Conservatives hold onto a reduced majority in Parliament.

Other Events

1231 Harderwijk, Netherlands, becomes a city
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany
1488 Battle of Sauchieburn Scotland
1509 England's King Henry VIII marries wife #1, Catherine of Aragon
1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1572 Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock
1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize the new world; founds Newfoundland colony.
1590 Spaniards bring the first wheeled vehicles, ox carts, into North America along the Rio Grande
1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1657 Thomas Blake becomes the first US minister to be addressed as 'Reverend' .
1666 -Vierdaagse Sea battle to the 14th (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Rupert)
1685 James Scott Duke of Monmouth rebels against Catholic king James II
1690 English king William III departs to Ireland
1699 England France & Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain
1726 Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French first minister
1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1774 Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1776 Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Rober R. Livingston, and Thomas Jeffererson chosen as a committee to prepare the US Declaration of Independence; delegated the writing to Adams and Jefferson, and Adams gave it over to Jefferson
1776 US Continental Congress create a committee to draft Decl of Independence
1788 first British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound BC
1793 first American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1798 Napoleon Bonaparte captures the island of Malta
1816 Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1838 Iowa Territory is organized
1842 Eleven inches of snow falls in Berlin, NH
1847 Sir John Franklin, Arctic explorer, dies on about this date while searching for a Northwest passage through the Arctic.
1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City Nevada
1861 Union forces under General George B. McClellen repel a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in Western Virginia
1864 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf, San Francisco washed away in storm
1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught
1864 Battle of Laurel Hill WV
1864 Battle of Trevillian Station VA (Central Railroad) to the 12th
1864 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg
1865 Major General Henry W. Halleck discovers documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia; leads to the publication of the official war records
1870 first stone of Amstel Brewery laid in Amsterdam
1872 The first celebration of Kamehameha Day The annual celebration is established by Kamehameha V in honor of his grandfather and becomes a Hawai'i state holiday in modern times.
1876 Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate
1878 DC is given a new govt by Congress 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)
1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted
1893 The first vasectomy is performed
1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
1898 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75
1898 600 US marines land at Guantanamo Cuba
1898 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1898 Filipino Revolutionary Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo proclaims the Philippines independence from Spain, who had been unwilling to hand over power to Filipino revolutionaries, and ceded the country to the United States for $20 million.
1898 first US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
1900 Battle at Diamond Hill, South Africa; British troops chase General Botha; to the 12th
1901 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1903 King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade assassinated by members of the Serbia army
1904 Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants wins in 12th on 1 hitter 1-0
1904 German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund SW-Africa
1905 Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1907 Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
1911 Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
1915 British troops capture Cameroon in Africa
1919 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn Country Club, Massachusetts
1919 Sir Barton with J Loftus aboard wins the 51st Belmont Stakes in 2:17.6, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner
1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
1921 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
1921 Brazil adopts women suffrage
1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
1927 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1927 Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the first Distinguished Flying Cross
1928 Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The Case Of Jonathan Drew, is released
1930 William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda
1934 World Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure
1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1937 Marx Brothers' comedy, A Day At The Races, released
1938 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
1938 Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves Mar-00
1938 Compton scores first Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
1938 Earthquake in Belgium
1938 England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 King & Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1940 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1940 German invasion of France well under way; British forced to abandon their defense of northwestern France and Belgium at Dunkirk
1940 Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean
1941 Nazis make second great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv killing 20 Jews
1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942 United States and the Soviet Union sign Lend-Lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II
1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos
1943 British capture Italian island of Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily) after a heavy air bombardment
1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944 First Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US Cathedral of St Sava NYC
1944 KP gang make surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail, Netherlands
1944 US carrier-based planes attacked Japanese airfields on Guam, Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan
1947 US government announces the end of household and institutional sugar rationing in WW II , to take effect the next day
1948 Lady Maria St. Just (Maria Britneva) joins John Gielgud at a party with guests Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Noel Coward, and Tennesse Williams
1949 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
1949 81st Belmont: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2
1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
1950 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1951 New York Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1953 Amos 'n Andy, TV Comedy also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1953 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
1955 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29
1955 First magnesium jet airplane flies
1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colorado
1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
1960 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses, killing 30 (Pakistan)
1960 Somalia unified as a nation
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 Norm Cash becomes first Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
1961 Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
1961 Winston Churchill documentary airs on ABC-TV
1942 US President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolates himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants
1963 Federal troops used to force Alabama Gov. George Wallace to accept black students, Vivian Malone Jones and James Wood, at the University of Alabama. In 1996 George Wallace apologized in a formal ceremony
1963 Greek govt of Karamanlis resigns
1963 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1964 Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy
1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party; they attend
1964 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1966 (I'm A) Road Runner by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1966 I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
1966 Janis Joplin plays her first gig (SF)
1966 On A Clear Day You... closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
1966 Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 Skyscraper closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
1966 Sloop John B by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
1967 A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
1967 Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1967 Israel and Syria accept a United Nations cease-fire
1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1967 Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1969 The Ballad Of John & Yoko by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1970 United States presence in Libya comes to an end as the last detachment leaves Wheelus Air Force Base
1971 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 US ends ban on China trade
1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
1972 31F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1972 KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW Seattle Wash
1974 Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start without relief
1975 First oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1975 Greece adopts constitution
1975 One-day international cricket debut Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days
1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1976 Australian band AC/DC begin their first headline tour of Britain
1976 Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" LP is released in USA
1976 Magnificent Marble Machine, last airs on NBC-TV
1977 109th Belmont Stakes: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6, capturing the Triple Crown
1977 Dutch marines storm a train and a school held by South Moluccan extremists, rescuing hostages after 20-day drama in the Netherlands; six gunmen and two hostages on the train were killed
1977 Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman) by Joe Tex hits #12
1977 Dance & Shake Your Tambourine by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 ELO releases "Telephone Line"
1977 I Need A Man by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 I'm Your Boogie Man by KC & the Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres [Disneyland? WDW?]
1977 The Pretender by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 Watch Closely Now by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1978 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1978 Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
1978 Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24� hrs of hula-hoop
1978 Grease starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens
1978 Joseph Freeman Jr is first black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1978 Joseph Freeman Jr. becomes the first black minister ordained in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1979 US Actor John Wayne, 'The Duke,' dies of lung cancer at age 72; born Marion Morrison in Iowa
1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion sentenced to 4 months
1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome then players go on strike
1982 Graphite fishing rods first manufactured
1982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1982 Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)
1982 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
1983 115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8
1983 Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1983 Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab
1983 Cool Places by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern Calif Open bowling tournament miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball
1983 Faithfully by Journey peaks at #12
1983 My Love by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 Theme From Doctor Detroit by Devo peaks at #59
1983 When I'm With You by Sheriff peaks at #61
1983 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
1985 Karen Ann Quinlan dies in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31; comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision.
1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26 Mets-7)
1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
1986 US Supreme Court strikes down a Pennsylvania abortion law, while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion
1986 Amnesty International megaconcert
1986 Blacke's Magic, last airs on NBC-TV
1988 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles 7-Nov
1988 120th Belmont Stakes: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Preakness winner Risen Star wins in 2:26.6, a time second only to its father, thoroughbred legend Secretariat
1988 Everything Your Heart Desires by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
1988 Freedomfest Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1988 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8�")
1988 Rooty Toot Toot by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 We All Sleep Alone by Cher peaks at #14
1988 Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes first pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)
1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1989 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)
1989 Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International
1989 Government of China issues arrest warrant for dissident Fang Lizhi, who had taken refuge inside the US Embassy in Beijing
1990 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
1990 Tamil guerrillas battle government troops in northern and eastern Sri Lanka One hundred-twenty-five are killed.
1990 Texas Rangers righthander Nolan Ryan tosses his sixth no-hitter to extend his own major-league record in a 5-0 victory over the World Champion Oakland A's
1990 US Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision, overturns a new federal statute making flag desecration a crime
1990 Two whites convicted in connection with a 1989 murder of a black teen in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn are given maximum sentences
1990 UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
1990 Federal judge sentences former national security adviser John M Poindexter to six months for making false statements to Congress; highest-ranking defendant in the Iran-Contra trial the first to receive a prison sentence; convictions later overturned.
1991 Heat wave in southern Pakistan pushing temperatures above 122� F for two weeks claims the lives of 164 people
1991 Low of 37�F in Gunnison, Colorado
1991 Apple Computer announces licensing its operating system software to IBM, and IBM licensing to Apple a powerful microprocessor, the PowerPC, used in high-powered workstations.
1991 Benjamin Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post credited with bringing about the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon, resigns
1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1991 Two-thousand-four-hundred seventy-eight jelly fish aboard the space shuttle Columbia exhibit circular movement in space rather than the pulsating movement seen on Earth
1991 US President Bush grants the Soviet Union $1.5 billion in agricultural credits
1992 Chip Hanauer, driving the Miss Budweiser unlimited hydroplane on the Detroit River, sets a world record of 168.975 mph
1992 Four tornadoes touch down near Abernathy, TX
1992 Military offensive in northern Sri Lanka kills 21 soldiers and 70 Tamil Tiger rebels; to date Sri Lanka's civil war has claimed 17,000 lives since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam began fighting in 1983 for an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the north and east.
1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1992 US President Bush forced to flee from a downtown stage in Panama City when riot police fire tear gas at protesters, preventing him from speaking at a rally praising the revival of democracy in Panama; stopover in Panama en route to the Earth Summit in Brazil.
1992 Tracy Austin 29 is youngest inductee of Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1992 US Olympic baseball team plays first exhibtion game beat Venez 20-0
1993 A hammerhead shark spooks swimmers off of Waikiki, HI On the same day a 10-12 foot shark drives a surfer our of the water off of Sand Island, Oahu.
1993 Steven Spielberg movie Jurassic Park opens; sets box office weekend record of $502 million
1993 Scattergories, game show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 Second run of Scrabble, TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 Shark prowling waters off a Hong Kong beach claims its second victim in 10 days
1993 US Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes motivated by bigotry may be sentenced to extra punishment; Court also ruled religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services
1993 United Nations forces launch night attack against the forces of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid
1994 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
1994 Car bomb blows up outside luxury hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing five people in an apparently drug-related attack
1994 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994 Meet The Flintstones by The BC 52's peaks to #33
1994 Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria
1994 United States, South Korea and Japan agree to seek punitive steps against North Korea over its nuclear program
1994 World's largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn; box is 39'115 long 20'85 wide & 8' high; Jacksonville, Florida
1995 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
1995 US President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich argue politely over Medicare and other issues before an audience of senior citizens in Claremont, New Hampshire
1995 Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1995 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
1996 Terrorist bomb in Moscow subway kills 12 people
1996 Chilean-based fruit company to purchase Fresh Del Monte Produce NV for $534 milion.
1996 Convoy of Chechen rebel leaders blasted by remote control bombs while returning after negotiations with Russian counterparts
1996 Rusty Russian freighter carrying hundreds of Liberian refugees remains at sea after Ghana refused to let it dock
1996 European Union and Algeria sign trade pact and agreement to provide $3.6 million to help pay for elections in Bosnia
1996 Bob Dole (Sen-R-KS) resigns from US senate to run for president; end of congressional career that lasted 3 1/2 decades
1996 US Federal agents arrest 3 leaders and 15 members of the Genovese organized crime family in New York
1996 Five American Indian leaders sue US government after learning that the Bureau of Indian Affairs could not account for about 15% of an estimated $450 million held for some 300,000 Indians
1996 Formosa Plastic Group of Taiwan led by Y.C. Wang to build 6 thermal power plants in the coastal province of Fujian in China for an investment of $3.8 bil
1996 Lightning strikes a tank and starts a blaze of 3 million gallons of gas at a Shell Oil storage facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey
1996 South Korea pledges $3 million in aid to North Korea
1996 Scientists report discovery of new planet near star Lalande 21185, the 4th closest star to Earth, 8.1 light-years away. The nearest is Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light-years. Analysis of the data indicates that the planet is about the size of Jupiter.
1996 Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Mai (1940-1996) dies; junior member of the team that negotiated US withdrawal in 1973 and chief architect of the recent campaign for diplomatic relations with the US
1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin to remove Yevgeny Nazdratenko, governor of the far-eastern Primorsky region, due to extensive crime and corruption
1997 In Cambodia Pol Pot ordered the killing of the former Khmer Rouge defense minister Son Sen (67) and his powerful wife, Yun Yat (63), and 9 relatives
1997 Nepal foreign minister Prakash Chandra Lohani resigns and accuses ruling coalition of Communists of cheating in last month's elections
1997 Tamil Tiger rebel raiders in Sri Lanka claim 300 soldiers dead vs. 50 guerrillas; government says 97 soldiers killed at Thandikulam and Nochchimoddai
1997 US President Clinton announces that the US will only support Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for NATO membership for now
1997 Parents of Timothy McVeigh plead for their son's life during penalty phase of Oklahoma City bombing trial
1998 Avalanche on Mount Rainier, WA, traps 12 climbers, injuring five, killing one
1998 China orders officials in its nearly 1 million villages to open their activities to public scrutiny
1998 Fighting between Eritrea and Ethiopia reported 50 miles from Eritrea's Red Sea port of Assab
1998 Burundi military leader Pierre Buyoya sworn in as president by democratically elected parliament
1998 Mitsubishi Motors agrees to pay $34 million to settle allegations that women on the assembly line at its Illinois factory were groped and insulted and that managers did nothing to stop it
1998 Pakistan announces moratorium on nuclear tests and offers to enter bilateral talks with India
1998 Japanese yen falls to an eight-year low against the dollar as the government in Tokyo announces data confirming its economy has sunk into recession
1999 Iranian Ayatollah Mohammad Yazi tells worshipers that the world should pay him heed as the highest justice official in Iran and that 13 Iranian Jews would be tried under Islamic law for treason
1999 DeForest Kelley died in Woodland Hills, California, at age 79; played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy on Star Trek,
1999 Eritrea and Ethiopia clash in second day of heavy fighting on the western Badme front
1999 Armed group kills 14 Algerians in Sidi Naamane
1999 Iraq accuses Iran of firing 3 Scud-B missiles on the Ashraf camp of the Mujahedeen Khalq guerrilla group, located 50 miles from the Iranian border
1999 Russian troops in Bosnia enter Kosovo in a move later deemed a mistake
1999 Serb civilians start leaving Kosovo in fear of the transition period under NATO
1999 South Korean ships ram and briefly repel 4 North Korean patrol boats. North Korea warned South Korea to withdraw warships from disputed waters in the Yellow Sea on the 5th day of a standoff
1999 FBI seeks creator of Worm.Explore.Zip, a file-destroying computer virus which hit some of the biggest corporations in the US
1999 US and Libya have first official meeting in 18 years; US stipulates conditions to be met prior to lifting of sanctions
2000 Rwandan troops drive Ugandan forces from Kisangani, Congo, to end week of indiscriminate shelling
2000 Montenegro voters keep pro-West government in the capital, Podgorica, but elect allies of Slobodan Milosevic in Herceg Novi.

1231 06 11 Harderwijk becomes a city
1488 06 11 Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
1509 06 11 King Henry VIII marries wife #1 Catharina of Arag�n
1517 06 11 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1572 06 11 Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock
1578 06 11 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US
1644 06 11 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1666 06 11 -14] Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)
1676 06 11 Battle at �land: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1685 06 11 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II
1690 06 11 English king Willem III departs to Ireland
1699 06 11 England, France & Neth agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain
1726 06 11 Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier
1742 06 11 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1770 06 11 Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1774 06 11 Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1776 06 11 Continental Congress create a committee to draft Decl of Independence
1788 06 11 First British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
1793 06 11 First American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1816 06 11 Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1838 06 11 Iowa Territory is organized
1859 06 11 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
1864 06 11 -12] Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)
1864 06 11 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
1864 06 11 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught
1864 06 11 Battle of Laurel Hill, WV
1864 06 11 Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)
1864 06 11 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg
1870 06 11 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1876 06 11 Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate
1878 06 11 DC is given a new govt by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)
1891 06 11 Puerto Rican flag adopted
1895 06 11 First auto race
1895 06 11 Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1896 06 11 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
1898 06 11 First US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
1898 06 11 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75
1898 06 11 600 US marines land at Guantanamo Cuba
1898 06 11 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1900 06 11 -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha
1901 06 11 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1904 06 11 Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0
1904 06 11 German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
1905 06 11 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1907 06 11 Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
1911 06 11 Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
1911 06 11 UNIA founded by Garvey
1919 06 11 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass
1919 06 11 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown
1920 06 11 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
1921 06 11 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
1921 06 11 Brazil adopts women suffrage
1924 06 11 Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924 06 11 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
1927 06 11 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1927 06 11 Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
1927 06 11 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the first Distinguished Flying Cross
1928 06 11 Alfred Hitchcock's first film, Case Of Jonathan Drew, is released
1934 06 11 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
1936 06 11 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1937 06 11 Marx Brothers' A Day At The Races released
1938 06 11 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
1938 06 11 Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
1938 06 11 Compton scores first Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
1938 06 11 Earthquake in Belgium
1938 06 11 England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 06 11 King & Queen of England taste first hot dogs at FDR's party
1940 06 11 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
1940 06 11 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1941 06 11 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1941 06 11 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1942 06 11 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942 06 11 US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
1943 06 11 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
1943 06 11 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos
1944 06 11 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944 06 11 First Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1944 06 11 KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
1947 06 11 WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)
1949 06 11 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
1949 06 11 81st Belmont: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2
1949 06 11 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
1950 06 11 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1951 06 11 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1951 06 11 NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1953 06 11 Amos 'n Andy, TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1953 06 11 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
1955 06 11 First magnesium jet airplane flies
1955 06 11 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29
1955 06 11 Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race continues)
1957 06 11 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo
1958 06 11 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1959 06 11 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
1960 06 11 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
1960 06 11 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
1961 06 11 Winston Churchill, last airs on ABC-TV
1961 06 11 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 06 11 Norm Cash becomes first Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
1961 06 11 Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
1962 06 11 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1963 06 11 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama
1963 06 11 Greek govt of Karamanlis resigns
1963 06 11 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is time to act
1964 06 11 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1964 06 11 Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy
1964 06 11 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1964 06 11 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1966 06 11 (I'm A) Road Runner by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 06 11 I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
1966 06 11 On A Clear Day You... closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
1966 06 11 Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 06 11 Skyscraper closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
1966 06 11 Sloop John B by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
1966 06 11 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1966 06 11 Janis Joplin plays her first gig (SF)
1967 06 11 A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
1967 06 11 Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1967 06 11 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1967 06 11 Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1969 06 11 The Ballad Of John & Yoko by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1969 06 11 David Bowie releases Space Oddity
1970 06 11 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
1971 06 11 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 06 11 US ends ban on China trade
1972 06 11 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
1972 06 11 31�F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1972 06 11 KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
1974 06 11 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
1974 06 11 Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief
1975 06 11 First oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1975 06 11 Greece adopts constitution
1975 06 11 One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days
1976 06 11 Magnificent Marble Machine, last airs on NBC-TV
1976 06 11 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1976 06 11 Australian band AC/DC begin their first headline tour of Britain
1976 06 11 Beatles Rock & Roll Music LP is released in USA
1977 06 11 Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman) by Joe Tex hits #12
1977 06 11 Dance & Shake Your Tambourine by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 06 11 I Need A Man by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 06 11 I'm Your Boogie Man by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 06 11 Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 06 11 The Pretender by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 06 11 Watch Closely Now by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1977 06 11 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
1977 06 11 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977 06 11 ELO releases Telephone Line
1977 06 11 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres [Disneyland? WDW?]
1978 06 11 Grease starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens
1978 06 11 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1978 06 11 Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
1978 06 11 Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24� hrs of hula-hoop
1978 06 11 Joseph Freeman Jr is first black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1979 06 11 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
1980 06 11 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
1981 06 11 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1981 06 11 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1982 06 11 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1982 06 11 Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 06 11 Movie ET the Extra-Terrestrial released (highest grossing film)
1982 06 11 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
1983 06 11 Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1983 06 11 Cool Places by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 06 11 Faithfully by Journey peaks at #12
1983 06 11 My Love by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 06 11 Theme From Doctor Detroit by Devo peaks at #59
1983 06 11 When I'm With You by Sheriff peaks at #61
1983 06 11 115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8
1983 06 11 Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab
1983 06 11 Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern Calif Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball
1983 06 11 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
1984 06 11 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
1984 06 11 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
1985 06 11 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 06 11 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
1985 06 11 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
1986 06 11 Blacke's Magic, last airs on NBC-TV
1986 06 11 Amnesty International megaconcert
1987 06 11 Margaret Thatcher is first British PM in 160 years to win 3rd cons term
1988 06 11 Everything Your Heart Desires by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3
1988 06 11 Rooty Toot Toot by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 06 11 We All Sleep Alone by Cher peaks at #14
1988 06 11 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6
1988 06 11 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7
1988 06 11 Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1988 06 11 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (248�)
1988 06 11 Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes first pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)
1989 06 11 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)
1989 06 11 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1989 06 11 Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International
1990 06 11 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitut
1990 06 11 UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
1990 06 11 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
1990 06 11 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
1991 06 11 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1992 06 11 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1992 06 11 Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1992 06 11 US Olympic baseball team plays first exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0
1993 06 11 Jurassic Park opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
1993 06 11 Scattergories, game show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 06 11 Scrabble, second run, TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
1994 06 11 Meet The Flintstones by The BC 52's peaks to #33
1994 06 11 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
1994 06 11 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994 06 11 Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria
1994 06 11 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
1995 06 11 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
1995 06 11 Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1995 06 11 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
1996 06 11 Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president

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