| 1346 |
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Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1509 |
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Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. |
| 1770 |
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Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. |
| 1798 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta. |
| 1861 |
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Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia. |
| 1865 |
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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 |
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Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile. |
| 1903 |
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King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army. |
| 1915 |
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British troops take Cameroon in Africa. |
| 1930 |
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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 |
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The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure. |
| 1940 |
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The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean. |
| 1943 |
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The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment. |
| 1944 |
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U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan. |
| 1963 |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants. |
| 1967 |
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Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire. |
| 1987 |
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Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister. |
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Born on June 11 |
| 1572 |
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Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet. |
| 1769 |
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Anne Newport Royall, American newspaper reporter. |
| 1823 |
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James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War. |
| 1880 |
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Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress. |
| 1895 |
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Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. |
| 1910 |
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung. |
| 1913 |
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Vince Lombardi, American football coach. |
| 1925 |
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William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice). |
| 1932 |
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Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys). |
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