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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Images

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  Great Barrier Reef, satellite view
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  Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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  George Wallace protesting desegregation at the University of Alabama
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  Afonso of Brazil
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  Alcatraz Island
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  The Blackstone Hotel

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii;	needs more footnotes
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, began.	no footnotes
1770 – The HMS Endeavour, carrying English explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage.	refimprove section, original research
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 section
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.	sparsely referenced
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.	POTD for 2021
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.	refimprove
1989 – In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.	TFA for 2021
Klemens von Metternich |d|1859	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
Jackie Stewart |b|1939	expansion

Eligible

• 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, was lynched by the prisoners.
• 1509 – Catherine of Aragon married King Henry VIII of England, becoming the first of his six wives.
• 1594 – Philip II of Spain recognized the sovereign rights of the principalía, the local nobles and chieftains of the Philippines who had converted to Catholicism.
• 1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
• 1837 – Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street Riot.
• 1847 – Prince Afonso died at the age of two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
• 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel to select their presidential candidate, leading to the 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 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
• 1982 – Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, considered one of the greatest films ever made, was released.
• 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.
• 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
• 2007 – Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• 2008 – Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
• Born/died this day: | Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy |d|1253| James Francis Edward Keith |b|1696| Millicent Fawcett |b|1847| Roger Bresnahan |b|1879| Ernie Nevers |b|1903| Claudia Lauper Bushman |b|1934| Sandra Schmirler |b|1963| Peter Dinklage |b|1969| Julius Evola |d|1974| A. Thurairajah |d|1994| Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |d|2014| Taha Karaan |d|2021

Notes

• Terry Nichols appears on June 4, so McVeigh should not appear in the same year

June 11

Alexander of Greece

• 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
• 1776 – The Second Continental Congress established the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1917 – Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine I, who had abdicated.
• 1955 – The deadliest accident in motorsport history occurred when two cars collided during a running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, causing 84 deaths.
• 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.

• Benjamin Ingham (b. 1712)
• R. A. Hardie (b. 1865)
• Gene Wilder (b. 1933)

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