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Japanese marines at the Battle of Wuhan -
Great Barrier Reef, satellite view -
Alabama Governor George Wallace defiantly protesting desegregation at the University of Alabama
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| 1492 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, begins. | no footnotes |
| 1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia. | no footnotes |
| 1938 – The Battle of Wuhan began, lasting four and a half months, the longest and largest battle of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War. | refimprove |
| 1972 – An excursion train derailed on a sharp curve at Eltham Well Hall station in Eltham, London, killing 6 people and injuring 126 others. | needs more footnotes |
| 1978 – A group of Urdu-speaking students led by Altaf Hussain founded the All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organisation political student organisation, a forerunner to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, at the University of Karachi. | cleanup required, missing citations |
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[edit]- 1770 – The HMS Endeavour, carrying English explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage.
- 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 1955 – More than 80 people were killed after Pierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race.
- 1956 – The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries.
- 1963 – Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
June 11: Trooping the Colour and the Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries (2011)
- 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, Alexios Apokaukos, megas doux of the Byzantine Navy, was lynched and killed by the prisoners.
- 1594 – In the Philippines, Philip II of Spain recognized the right to govern of the Principalía, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
- 1847 – Afonso died at age two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
- 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (pictured) and several senior officers of the Soviet Red Army were convicted for belonging to a Trotskyist organization in a secret trial during the Great Purge.
- 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
- 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.