Monday, June 11, 2012

June 11th in History



1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.

1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.

1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.

1776 - In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.

1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa. 

1937 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals. 

1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean. 

1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment. 

1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants. 

1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama. 

1967 - Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire. 

1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office. 

1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.  

Famous Birthdays:

1572 - Ben Johnson, English Renaissance Dramatist

1776 - John Constable, English Romantic painter 

1880 - Jeannette Rankin, First woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives 

1939 - Sir John Young Stewart (Jackie Stewart), Racing driver

1949 - Ingrid Newkirk, Founder of PETA



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