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🏰 On this day in History - June 11, 2026

1983 "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61

1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)

1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend

1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress

1995 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released

1938 Earthquake in Belgium

1864 -12] Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)

1950 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament

1770 Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia

1901 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand

1982 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina

1961 Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs

1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student

1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1988 "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14

1995 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)

1904 Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0

1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd cons term

1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)

1921 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8

1966 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs

1977 "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93

1488 Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland

1572 Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock

1971 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan

1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group

1992 Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of Intl Tennis Hall of Fame

1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitut

1876 Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate

1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern

1838 Iowa Territory is organized

1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament

1974 Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief

1976 "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV

1982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon

1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded

1949 81st Belmont: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2

1676 Battle at ™land: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden

1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa

1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US

1938 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days

1994 Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria

1878 DC is given a new govt by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)

1685 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II

1904 German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa

1966 "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs

1988 Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)

1983 "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8

1690 English king Willem III departs to Ireland

1951 NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found

1666 -14] Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)

1988 Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London

1964 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia

1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam

1966 "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20

1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash

1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president

1988 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6

1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada

1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody

1978 Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails

1977 "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83

1911 UNIA founded by Garvey

1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews

1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia

1996 Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president

1940 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta

1989 Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International

1977 "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans

1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1994 "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33

1972 31шF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June

1955 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29

1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal

1961 "Winston Churchill," last airs on ABC-TV

1963 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"

1944 KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail

1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo

1928 Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released

1726 Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier

1978 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez

1993 "Jurassic Park" opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million

1983 "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59

1774 Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army

1955 Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race continues)

1966 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry

1961 Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium

1964 Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy

1966 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK

1864 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm

1978 Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24« hrs of hula-hoop

1927 Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs

1983 "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5

1919 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown

1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)

1919 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass

1966 "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3

1966 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)

1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove

1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"

1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross

1978 Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title

1927 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6

1967 A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans

1978 "Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens

1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference

1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted

1994 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn

1977 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1

1938 England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge

1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized

1990 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)

1971 US ends ban on China trade

1977 "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58

1898 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75

1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)

1985 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)

1988 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7

1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos

1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational

1967 Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game

1938 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver

1816 Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded

1967 Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes

1966 "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1

1989 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)

1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR

1993 "Scattergories," game show; last airs on NBC-TV

1983 115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8

1943 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)

1953 "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS

1988 "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61

1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months

1988 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8¬")

1921 Brazil adopts women suffrage

1975 Greece adopts constitution

1982 Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

1977 "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7

1982 Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)

1993 "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV

1907 Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire

1953 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge

1509 King Henry VIII marries wife #1 Catharina of Aragўn

1983 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14

1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies

1962 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale

1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa

1983 Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern Calif Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball

1870 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam

1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer

1969 "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK

1864 Battle of Laurel Hill, WV

1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas

1231 Harderwijk becomes a city

1898 1st US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War

1895 1st auto race

1986 "Blacke's Magic," last airs on NBC-TV

1994 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden

1986 Amnesty International megaconcert

1983 Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab

1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0

1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres [Disneyland? WDW?]

1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike

1983 "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12

1994 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8

1864 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg

1970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya

1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama

1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon

1977 "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12

1895 Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile

1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland

1776 Continental Congress create a committee to draft Decl of Independence

1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes

1976 Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" LP is released in USA

1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)

1944 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC

1977 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6

1995 Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic

1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC

1699 England, France & Neth agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain

1938 Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0

1988 "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3

1972 KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE

1898 600 US marines land at Guantanamo Cuba

1990 UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador

1942 US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II

1911 Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15

1939 King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party

1963 Greek govt of Karamanlis resigns

1949 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL

1793 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick

1900 -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha

1975 One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days

1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught

1992 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0

1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay

1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield

1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC

1947 WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)

1898 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking

1977 ELO releases "Telephone Line"

1976 Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain

1960 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2

1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus

1983 "Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49

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