About June 11
June 11, 2025 is the 162nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 251 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.
- 1509 –Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- 1775 –The American Revolutionary War’s first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
- 1805 –A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- 1825 –The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- 1898 –The Hundred Days’ Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
- 1907 –George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- 1935 –Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
- 1942 –World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 1955 –Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –Altaf Hussain founds the students’ political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
- 1981 –A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
- 2001 –Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2004 –Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
- 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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