What are the important events that happened on June 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 11: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 11 is the 163^rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 29, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,718,064,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontatrigon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 232 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,190 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 11 Historical Events

• 1345 –
  The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
• 1429 –
  Hundred Years’ War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
• 1509 –
  Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
• 1892 –
  The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
• 1919 –
  Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
• 1944 –
  USS Missouri the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
• 1962 –
  Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
• 1963 –
  American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
• 2002 –
  Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
• 2008 –
  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

Who were born on June 11?

• 1403 –
  John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
• 1672 –
  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
• 1920 –
  Hazel Scott, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer (d. 1981)
• 1920 –
  Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (d. 1993)
• 1931 –
  Audrey Schuh, American soprano
• 1933 –
  Gene Wilder, American actor
• 1944 –
  Roscoe Orman, American actor
• 1948 –
  Michael Swan, American actor
• 1950 –
  Graham Russell, British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply)
• 1982 –
  Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier

Who died on June 11?

• 1852 –
  Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
• 1882 –
  Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
• 1911 –
  James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
• 1914 –
  Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
• 1927 –
  William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
• 1974 –
  Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
• 1986 –
  Chesley Bonestell, American engineer, architect and artist (b. 1888)
• 1993 –
  Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
• 1995 –
  Rodel Naval, Filipino Singer (b.1953)
• 2006 –
  Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)