June 11

People born on this day are Gemini.

On this day in history01

1971
The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
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1978
Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
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1987
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
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1998
Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
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2001
Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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2002
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
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2004
Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
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2007
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
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2008
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
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2008
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
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2012
Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
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2013
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
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