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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Japanese marines at the Battle of Wuhan
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Great Barrier Reef, satellite view
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Alabama Governor George Wallace defiantly protesting desegregation at the University of Alabama
Ineligible
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1492 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, begins. | no footnotes |
1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia. | no footnotes |
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 |
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 Muhajir Student Organisation political student organisation, a forerunner to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, at the University of Karachi. | cleanup required, missing citations |
Eligible
- 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, Alexios Apokaukos, megas doux of the Byzantine Navy, was lynched and killed by the prisoners.
- 1770 – The HMS Endeavour, carrying English explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage.
- 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 1955 – More than 80 people were killed after Pierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race.
- 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.
- 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.
June 11: Trooping the Colour and the Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries (2011)
- 1594 – In the Philippines, Philip II of Spain recognized the right to govern of the Principalía, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
- 1847 – Afonso died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
- 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (pictured) 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.
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.