It happened on this day, June 11
events:
786 – A trap battle takes place between the Alawites and the Abbasids.
1770 – British explorer James Cook discovers the “Great Barrier Reef” on the Australian coast, which constitutes the largest concentration of coral reefs in the world.
1776 – The Continental Congress, the legislative body of the American colonies under British control, terminates the proposed American Declaration of Independence.
1930 – Iranian and Turkish military forces attack Kurdish rebels in the Turkish town of Agrı.
1932 – Muhammad Ali Al-Abed assumes the presidency of Syria.
1937 – Joseph Stalin executes eight army generals accused of high treason.
1943 – The Italian garrison of Pantelleria surrenders after being subjected to heavy aerial bombardment during World War II. It was the first territory captured by the Air Force alone.
1951 – Portugal declares African Mozambique part of Portuguese territory as an overseas territory.
1958 – The UN Security Council decides to send observers to Lebanon after the outbreak of a political crisis between President Camille Chamoun and his opponents.
1964 – African leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
1970 – American forces leave the Howells Libyan base after nearly 25 years of occupation after expelling Italian and German forces in the aftermath of World War II.
1971 – The United States ends a 21-year economic rift with China.
1982 – Syria and Israel agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after about five days of heavy fighting between the two sides as part of Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
2001 – Execution of the death sentence against the person responsible for the bombing of the Oklahoma federal building, Timothy McVeigh.
2004 – Saudi Arabia and the United States jointly investigate an alleged plot by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
✴️ The funeral of the fortieth American president Ronald Reagan.
2005 – Launch of the TechCrunch website.
2009 – The World Health Organization declares swine flu a global pandemic.
2010 – Opening of the nineteenth FIFA World Cup held in South Africa.
2016 – At least 16 people were killed and 35 others injured in two suicide bombings in the Sayyida Zeinab area of rural Damascus, the first carried out by a suicide bomber with an explosive belt and the second with a car bomb.
2017 – Voters in Puerto Rico vote for the island to gain statehood within the United States. The choice of statehood was easily won with 97.18% of the votes, while the option of full independence received 1.50% of the votes, while the option of full independence obtained 1.50% of the votes. possibility of remaining since he only obtained 1.32% of the votes.
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Births:
1572 – Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright.
1776 – John Constable, English painter.
1864 – Richard Strauss, Austrian musician.
1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist.
1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine scientist.
1914 – Henry Barakat, Egyptian director.
1934 – Blagoj Videnić, Yugoslav footballer and manager.
** Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
1937 – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2005.
1939 – Jihan Al-Makkawi, Egyptian journalist and writer.
1941 – Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Egyptian writer. Saqr Al-Rashoud, Kuwaiti theater director.
(1945–NajahAl-MogyEgyptian actor
1947 – Israel Shamir, Israeli journalist and thinker.
1949 – Ahmed Mahrez, Algerian actor.
1958 – Jamal Slim, Palestinian politician and leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
1955 – Yuri Sedykh, Soviet-Russian hammer thrower
1959 – Hugh Laurie, English actor.
1962 – Toshihiko Sukei, Japanese voice actor.
1966 – Uday Raad, Lebanese actor and voice actor.
1967 – Nader Al-Hasawi, Kuwaiti actor.
1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor.
1971 – Kenjiro Tsuda, Japanese voice actor.
1981 – Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer.
1984 – Wagner Löw, Brazilian footballer.
1985 – Sabreen Burshid, Bahraini actress.
1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor.
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Death:
1488 – King James III, King of Scotland.
1727 – King George I, king of Great Britain.
1777 – Ahmed bin Mahdi Al-Ghazal, Moroccan jurist and diplomat.
1850 – Muhammad Hassan al-Najafi, Iraqi Muslim jurist and encyclopedist.
1859 – Metternich, Austrian politician.
1936 – Robert Howard, American writer.
1963 – Shukri Shasha'a, Palestinian-Jordanian writer, poet, journalist and politician.
1979 – John Wayne, American actor.
1984 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician.
1990 – Oldrich Niedli, Czechoslovak footballer.
2001 – Timothy McVeigh, responsible for the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma.
2015 – Christopher Lee, British actor.
2016 – Christina Grimmie, American singer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Kamehameha Day, a public holiday in Hawaii in honor of its first king.
