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What happened in history on this day: June 11?
On June 11 in ...
- 1862 - The second Legal Tender Act authorizes an additional $150 million in legal tender notes.
- 1866 - The US Mint releases the 1866 Shield 5-cent coin to circulation.
- 1896 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota, is authorized by Congress.
- 1905 - Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest train in world (New York-Chicago in 18 hours).
- 1920 - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for US President.
- 1936 - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia.
- 1939 - King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at US President Franklin Roosevelt's party.
- 1942 - US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II.
- 1944 - First Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of Saint Sava, New York City.
- 1947 - WW II sugar rationing in the USA ends.
- 1959 - US Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book Lady Chatterley's Lover.
- 1963 - Governor Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama.
- 1963 - US President John Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act".
- 1967 - Race riot in Tampa, Florida; National Guard mobilizes.
- 1970 - US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base Libya.
- 1974 - Georgann Hawkins disappears from University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (Ted Bundy victim).
- 1991 - On the cruise yacht New Yorker, dubbed the "DOS Boat", in New York City harbor, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer unveil MS-DOS 5.0. It adds a full-screen editor, undelete and unformat utilities, and task swapping. GW-BASIC is replaced with Qbasic, based on Microsoft's QuickBASIC.
- 2001 - Nintendo launches the Game Boy Advance portable game system in the USA.
- 2002 - Antonio Meucci is recognized as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
- 2004 - Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The decision comes on the third anniversary of the execution of his co-defendant, Timothy McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Births on June 11
- 1883 - Birth of Frank O. King in Cashton, Wisconsin, USA; Gasoline Alley cartoonist.
- 1886 - Birth of David Steinman in New York City, New York, USA; bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough).
- 1900 - Birth of Lawrence E Spivak in Brooklyn, New York, USA; news panelist (Meet the Press).
- 1911 - Birth of Russ Hodges in Dayton, Tennessee, USA; sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights).
- 1913 - Birth of Risë Stevens in New York City, New York, USA; mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera).
- 1914 - Birth of Gerald Mohr in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Christopher - Foreign Intrigue).
- 1920 - Birth of Robert Hutton in Kingston, New York, USA; actor (Torture Garden, Rocket).
- 1922 - Birth of John Bromfield in South Bend, Indiana, USA; actor (Easy to Love).
- 1925 - Birth of William Styron in Virginia, USA; novelist (Confession of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice).
- 1926 - Birth of Carlisle Floyd in Latta, South Carolina, USA; composer (Slow Dusk).
- 1931 - Birth of Tab Hunter in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Tab Hunter Show).
- 1933 - Birth of Jud Strunk in Jamestown, New York, USA; singer/comedian (Laugh-In).
- 1935 - Birth of Gene Wilder in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak).
- 1936 - Birth of Chad Everett in South Bend, Indiana, USA; actor (Medical Center, Airplane II).
- 1937 - Birth of Johnny Brown in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA; comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams).
- 1940 - Birth of Joey Dee in Passaic, New Jersey, USA; actor (Hey Let's Twist, Two Tickets to Paris).
- 1944 - Birth of James "Ox" D A Van Hoften in Fresno, California, USA; astronaut (STS 41C, STS 51I).
- 1950 - Birth of Michael Swan in Palo Alto, California, USA; actor (Duncan - As the World Turns).
- 1973 - Birth of Robby Kiger in Encino, California, USA; actor (Crazy Like a Fox).
Deaths on June 11
- 1970 - Frank Laubach of Benton, Pennsylvania, taught reading through phonetics, dies.
- 1979 - John Wayne, American film actor starring in over 250 films, dies at age 72 in Los Angeles, California after battling cancer for more than a decade. Notable films: Stagecoach (1939), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962). He produced, directed and starred in The Alamo (1960) and The Green Berets (1968), an won an Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.
- 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die activist, dies in Morris Plains, New Jersey at age 31 (born 1954).
- 2001 - In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
- 2002 - Death of Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (AIDS) (born 1959).
- 2003 - Death of David Brinkley at age 82; TV journalist (NBC Nightly News 1956-70, This Week with David Brinkley).
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