Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 11
This is a list of selected June 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Great Barrier Reef, satellite view -
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Alabama Governor George Wallace defiantly protesting desegregation at the University of Alabama
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Kamehameha Day in Hawaii; | needs more footnotes |
| 1492 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, begins. | no footnotes |
| 1770 – The HMS Endeavour, carrying English explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. | refimprove section |
| 1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia. | no footnotes |
| 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and several senior officers of the Soviet Red Army were convicted for belonging to a Trotskyist organization in a secret trial during the Great Purge. | refimprove |
| 1938 – The Battle of Wuhan began, lasting four and a half months, the longest and largest battle of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War. | refimprove |
| 1972 – An excursion train derailed on a sharp curve at Eltham Well Hall station in Eltham, London, killing 6 people and injuring 126 others. | needs more footnotes |
| 1978 – A group of Urdu-speaking students led by Altaf Hussain founded the All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization political student organisation, a forerunner to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, at the University of Karachi. | cleanup required, ref improve |
Eligible
- 1594 – In the Philippines, Philip II of Spain recognized the right to govern of the Principalía, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
- 1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
- 1776 – The Second Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for Britain's Thirteen Colonies.
- 1917 – Alexander was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine, who had abdicated.
- 1920 – During their 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".
- 1962 – American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States' most famous prisons.
- 1963 – Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
- 1955 – More than 80 people were killed after cars driven by Pierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race.
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
- 2007 – Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall killed 130 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
June 11: Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries (2016)
- 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, Alexios Apokaukos, megas doux of the Byzantine Navy, was lynched by the prisoners.
- 1847 – Afonso (pictured) died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
- 1956 – The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries.
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.