June 11
June 11th is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (163rd in leap years, with 203 days remaining.
Events:
- 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon
Births:
- 1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence (+ 1574)
- 1572 - Ben Jonson, dramatist (+ 1637)
- 1776 - John Constable, painter (+ 1837)
- 1842 - Carl von Linde, engineer and industrialist (+ 1934)
- 1864 - Richard Strauss, composer and conductor (+ 1949)
- 1867 - Charles Fabry, physicist (+ 1945)
- 1910 - Jacques Cousteau, underwater exploer (+ 1997)
- 1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
- 1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
- 1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
Deaths:
- 1936 - Robert E. Howard, author
- 1979 - John Wayne, actor
- 1999 - DeForrest Kelley, actor
- 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed)
Holidays and observances:
- Feast of St Barnabas
- Roman Empire - Matralia in honor of Mater Matuta
- Roman Empire - fifth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
See Also:
June 10 - June 12 - May 11 - July 11 -- listing of all days
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