WillDekkard
06-11-2010, 06:18 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 11th
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* 1184 BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
* 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.
* 758 Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. They quarrel over diplomatic prominence at the gate and a settlement is reached when both are allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace.
* 1345 The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
* 1429 Hundred Years' War: The 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 paves way to the creation of the Principalνa (i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
* 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.
* 1788 Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
* 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.
* 1837 The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish
* 1866 The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
* 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.
* 1898 The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor in hopes changing 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.
* 1901 New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
* 1907 George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
* 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.
* 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".
* 1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
* 1936 The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
* 1937 Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
* 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
* 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
* 1940 World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
* 1940 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
* 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.
* 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 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.
* 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.
* 1967 Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 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.
* 1972 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 (a.k.a APMSO) in Karachi University.
* 1981 A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
* 1998 Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
* 2001 Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
* 2004 Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of 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.
* 2010 The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts in South Africa, marking the first Soccer World Cup to be hosted by an African nation.
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- June 11th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1184 BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
* 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.
* 758 Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. They quarrel over diplomatic prominence at the gate and a settlement is reached when both are allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace.
* 1345 The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
* 1429 Hundred Years' War: The 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 paves way to the creation of the Principalνa (i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
* 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.
* 1788 Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
* 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.
* 1837 The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish
* 1866 The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
* 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.
* 1898 The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor in hopes changing 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.
* 1901 New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
* 1907 George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
* 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.
* 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".
* 1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
* 1936 The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
* 1937 Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
* 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
* 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
* 1940 World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
* 1940 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
* 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.
* 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 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.
* 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.
* 1967 Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 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.
* 1972 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 (a.k.a APMSO) in Karachi University.
* 1981 A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
* 1998 Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
* 2001 Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
* 2004 Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of 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.
* 2010 The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts in South Africa, marking the first Soccer World Cup to be hosted by an African nation.
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