About June 11
June 11, 2022 is the 162nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 225 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 11
- 1345 –The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
- 1429 –Hundred Years’ War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
- 1509 –Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- 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.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
- 1825 –The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- 1837 –The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
- 1892 –The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
- 1917 –King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
- 1919 –Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
- 1938 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 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.
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