About June 11
June 11, 2024 is the 163rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 232 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 11
- 173 –Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called “miracle of the rain”.
- 631 –Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
- 1429 –Hundred Years’ War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
- 1594 –Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
- 1770 –Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1775 –The American Revolutionary War’s first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
- 1788 –Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
- 1805 –A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- 1837 –The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
- 1903 –Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
- 1919 –Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
- 1942 –World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1962 –Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1963 –American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace 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.
- 1970 –After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
- 1981 –A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
- 2002 –Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- 2008 –Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
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