ONE THIS DAY IN HISTORY.... June 11 Historical Events 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. 1770 – Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. 1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory. 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia. 1898 – The Hundred Days’ Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905. 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands. 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed. 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. 1972 – The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126. 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. Who were born on June 11? 1876 – Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960) 1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine biologist and inventor (d. 1997) 1920 – Hazel Scott, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer (d. 1981) 1928 – Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Spanish-born Queen consort of the Belgians 1944 – Roscoe Orman, American actor 1947 – Henry Cisneros, American politician 1956 – Steven A. Cohen, American hedge fund manager 1964 – Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver 1984 – Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer 1987 – Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer and Eurovision contestant Who died on June 11? 1712 – Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654) 1859 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773) 1903 – Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837) 1963 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (b. 1897) 1974 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883) 1985 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954) 1991 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925) 1993 – Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952) 1995 – Rodel Naval, Filipino Singer (b.1953) 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
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