Updated June 10, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 11, 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
Go to article »On June 11, 1880, Jeannette Rankin, the first female member of Congress, was born. Following her death on May 18, 1973, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1509 England’s King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon. 1942 The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II. 1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school. 1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. 1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown. 1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion. 1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third consecutive term in office. 1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag. 2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. 2002 Rock musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle. (The couple divorced in 2008.) 2002 The singing competition “American Idol” debuted on Fox. 2009 The World Health Organization declared the swine flu outbreak a pandemic. 2010 The FIFA World Cup opened in South Africa, the first time soccer’s biggest tournament was held on that continent. Current Birthdays
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Actor Hugh Laurie (“House M.D.”) turns 53 years old today.
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Miami Marlins shortstop Jose Reyes turns 29 years old today.
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1930 Charles Rangel, U.S. congressman, D-N.Y., turns 82 1933 Gene Wilder, Actor, turns 79 1937 Chad Everett, Actor, turns 75 1939 Jackie Stewart, Auto racer, turns 73 1945 Adrienne Barbeau, Actress, turns 67 1949 Frank Beard, Rock musician (ZZ Top), turns 63 1953 Peter Bergman, Actor (“The Young and the Restless”), turns 59 1953 Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota, turns 59 1956 Joe Montana, Football Hall of Famer, turns 56 1969 Peter Dinklage, Actor, turns 43 1978 Joshua Jackson, Actor (“Fringe,” “Dawson’s Creek”), turns 34 1982 Diana Taurasi, Basketball player, turns 30 1986 Shia LaBeouf, Actor, turns 26
Historic Birthdays
Jeannette Rankin 6/11/1880 – 5/18/1973 First female member of the Congress of the United States.Go to obituary »
78 George Wither 6/11/1588 – 5/2/1667
English poet and Puritan pamphleteer60 John Constable 6/11/1776 – 3/31/1837
English landscape painter63 Julia Cameron 6/11/1815 – 1/26/1879
English portrait photographer82 Dame Millicent Fawcett 6/11/1847 – 8/5/1929
English women’s suffrage leader85 Richard Strauss 6/11/1864 – 9/8/1949
German Romantic composer72 Yasunari Kawabata 6/11/1899 – 4/16/1972
Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist (1968)72 Ernie Nevers 6/11/1903 – 5/3/1976
American football and baseball player87 Jacques-Yves Cousteau 6/11/1910 – 6/25/1997
French naval officer and oceanographer57 Vince Lombardi 6/11/1913 – 9/3/1970
American professional football coach72 Irving Howe 6/11/1920 – 5/5/1993
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