About June 11
June 11, 2021 is the 162nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 235 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 11
- 1184 BC –Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1825 –The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- 1892 –The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1901 –New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- 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.
- 1920 –During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase “smoke-filled room”.
- 1944 –USS Missouri the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
- 1962 –Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1963 –Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
- 1964 –World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in 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.
- 1972 –The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
- 2001 –Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 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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