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The following events took place on June 11. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.

• 1936

  The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
• 1937

  Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
• 1938

  Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• 1942

  World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• 1942

  Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
• 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.
• 1955

  Eighty-three spectators 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.
• 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: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly 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 Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
• 1963

  John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
• 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.
• 1968

  Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens distinguishing cells of different lineages, introducing the concept of cell surface antigens that could differentiate different cell types.
• 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.
• 1971

  The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
• 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.
• 1982

  The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore.
• 1987

  Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
• 1998

  Compaq Computer pays US$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 the Saturn moon Phoebe.
• 2007

  Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
• 2008

  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a 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.
• 2012

  More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
• 2013

  Shenzhou 10, China’s fifth manned spaceflight mission and the second and final one to the Tiangong-1 space laboratory, is launched with 3 taikonauts on a 15-day mission.

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