On This Day: 11 June

11 June in Indian history

• 2008Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.India

11 June in world history

• 2007Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• 2004Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
• 1987Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
• 1964World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers, and seriously injuring several more, with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
• 1963The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
• 1963Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
• 1944USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
• 1920During 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".
• 1914Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
• 1898The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial
• 1865The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and
• 1837Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street Riot.
• 1776American Revolution: The Second Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
• 1775The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
• 1724J. S. Bach led his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, in Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his chorale cantata cycle.
• 1482The Treaty of Fotheringhay is signed between the English and Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, the rebellious brother of king James III of Scotland.
• 806Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.

Born on 11 June

• 1956Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
• 1948Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of BiharIndia
• 1926Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator (died 2021)
• 1897Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (died 1927)India
• 1877Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author (died 1909)
• 1815Julia Margaret Cameron, Indian-Sri Lankan photographer (died 1879)India

Died on 11 June

• 2013Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929)India
• 1984Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (born 1922)
• 1965José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (born 1883)
• 1962Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (born 1900)India

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 11 June in history?

2008: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school. 2007: Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh. 2004: Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. 1987: Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.

What happened on 11 June in Indian history?

2008: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

Which famous people were born on 11 June?

Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster (1956); Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar (1948); Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator (died 2021) (1926); Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (died 1927) (1897).

Which day is observed on 11 June?

Brazilian Navy Day (Brazil); Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada); King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaii, United States); Student Day (Honduras).