06-11-2005, 06:33 AM
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June 11th
1770 ~ Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1776 ~ Birthday of John Constable, English painter.
1864 ~ Birthday of Richard Strauss, Composer & Conductor.
1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.
1918 ~ Birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace prize winner.
1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire.
1963 ~ Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself with gasoline in a Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1998 ~ Compaq Computer purchased Digital Equipment Corporation.
2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed).
2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe.
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