Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 11 throughout history.
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, commonly shortened to ERT, is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece.
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras
On 11 June 2012, two moderate earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide. The landslide buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days…
Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried
On 11 June 2012, two moderate earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide. The landslide buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days…
75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried
The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Associati…
The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa
The prime minister of Canada is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority of the elected House o…
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses a
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observation…
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit
The 2007 Chittagong mudslides occurred in the port city of Chittagong in south-eastern Bangladesh. On 11 June 2007, heavy monsoon rainfall caused mudslides that engulfed slums aro…
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people
Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a joint space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to …
Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing…
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 or 168 people,…
Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq …
Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to…
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain
Golbaf is a city in, and the capital of, Golbaf District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Iran.
A magnitude 6
Altaf Hussain is a British Pakistani politician who is known as the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. He holds United Kingdom citizenship and has been living in exile in th…
Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi Univer
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples who are native to the Americas or the Western Hemisphere. Their ancestors are among the pre-Columbian population of South or…
The U
May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 230 days remain until the end of the year.
After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P
Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infanc…
Lloyd J
Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infanc…
Lloyd J
The Cologne school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, …
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children an
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement …
American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at