Today in History – June 11 in History
What happened on this day in history – June 11 in History around the world
| 1346 | Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor. | |
| 1509 | Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. | |
| 1770 | Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. | |
| 1798 | Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta. | |
| 1861 | Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records. | |
| 1895 | Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile. | |
| 1903 | King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army. | |
| 1915 | British troops take Cameroon in Africa. | |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic Flight. | |
| 1930 | William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere. | |
| 1934 | The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure. | |
| 1940 | The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean. | |
| 1943 | The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment. | |
| 1944 | U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan. | |
| 1963 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants. | |
| 1967 | Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire. | |
| 1987 | Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister. | |
| Born on June 11 | ||
| 1572 | Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet. | |
| 1769 | Anne Newport Royall, American newspaper reporter. | |
| 1823 | James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War. | |
| 1880 | Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress. | |
| 1888 | Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist, executed with Nicola Sacco. | |
| 1895 | Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. | |
| 1910 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung. | |
| 1913 | Vince Lombardi, American football coach. | |
| 1925 | William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice). | |
| 1932 | Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, “Master Harold” . . . and the Boys). | |