more events on June 11
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1987
Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.
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1967
Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire.
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1963
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
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1944
U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
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1943
The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
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1940
The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
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1934
The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.
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1932
Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, “Master Harold” . . . and the Boys).
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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.
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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.
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1925
William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice).
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1915
British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
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1913
Vince Lombardi, American football coach.
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1910
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.
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1903
King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.
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1895
Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
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Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
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1888
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist, executed with Nicola Sacco.
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1880
Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress.
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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.
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1861
Union forces under General George B. McClellan repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia.
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1823
James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
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1798
Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta.
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1770
Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
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1769
Anne Newport Royall, American newspaper reporter.
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1572
Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet.
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1509
Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
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1346
Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor.