11 Juin

The 11t o Juin is the 162nt day o the year (163rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 203 days tae come.

Events
 1488 - James IV, Keeng o Scots becomes King.
 1509 - Henry VIII o Ingland marries Catherine o Aragon.
 1770 - James Cook runs aground on Australie's Great Barrier Reef.
 1788 - Roushie splorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
 1901 - The Unitit Kinrick expands the colony o New Zealand tae include the Cook Islands.
 1955 - The Le Mans disaster kills 77 fowk.
 1962 - Three preesoners escape frae Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, Californie.
 1971 - Alcatraz prison is closed.
 1978 - Scotland defeat the eventual losin feenalists the Netherlands 3-2 in thair feenal FIFA Warld Cup group gemme.
 1981 - A yirdquauk in Iran kills 3,000 fowk.
 1987 - Margaret Thatcher is electit tae a third term as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
 1990 - Scotland loses 1-0 tae Costa Rica in its openin gemme o the 1990 FIFA Warld Cup in Italy.
 2004 - The Cassini-Huygens space probe flies bi Saturn's muin Phoebe.
 2007 - Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 fowk.
 2010 - The 2010 FIFA Warld Cup in Sooth Africae stairts: Hosts Sooth Africae draw 1-1 wi Mexico in the openin gemme.
 2019 - FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup: The Unitit States set a toornament record wi a 13-0 win ower Thailand.

Births
 1572 - Ben Jonson, Inglis playwricht, poet, actor an leeterar creetic (d. 1637)
 1776 - John Constable, Inglis penter (d. 1837)
 1818 - Alexander Bain, Scots philosopher (d. 1903)
 1864 - Richard Strauss, German componer (d. 1949)
 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet-Roushie politeecian (d. 1975)
 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (d. 1972)
 1910 - Jacques Cousteau, French marine biologist, historian an inventor (d. 1997)
 1929 - George Niven, Scots fitbawer (d. 2008)
 1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
 1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort o Denmark (d. 2018)
 1937 - Robin Warren, Australie pathologist
 1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scots racin driver
 1959 - Hugh Laurie, Inglis actor an muisicker
 1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor
 1971 - Warwick Smith, Scots curler
 1986 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
 1994 - Ivana Baquero, Spaingie actress

Daiths
 1488 - James III, Keeng o Scots (b. 1451)
 1488 - Alexander Cunningham, 1st Yerl o Glencairn, Scots nobleman (b. 1426)
 1560 - Mary o Guise, Queen Consort o Scots (b. 1515)
 1662 - John Drummond, 2nt Yerl o Perth, Scots nobleman (b. 1588)
 1727 - George I o Great Breetain (b. 1660)
 1828 - Dugald Stewart, Scots philosopher an mathemateecian (b. 1753)
 1859 - Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrick statesman (b. 1773)
 1957 - Hughie Gallacher, Scots fitbawer (b. 1903)
 1970 - Alexander Kerensky, Roushie politeecian (b. 1881)
 1979 - John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)

Halidays
 Kamehameha Day (Hawaii)
 St. Barnabas Day

Category:Days o the year