On This Day:
Wednesday June 11, 2014 This is the 162nd day of the year, with 203 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: cosmic year A cosmic or galactic year is the time it takes the sun to complete one revolution or orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy - about 225 million earth years.
Holidays Feast day of St. Barnabas, Saints Felix and Fortunatus, and St. Parisio.
Hawaii: King Kamehameha I Day.
Libya: American Bases Evacuation Day (1970).
Events 1509 - England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, the first of his six wives.
1770 - Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
1793 - The first patent for a stove was issued, to Robert Haeterick.
1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh received the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded.
1937 - Josef Stalin's great Soviet "Purge" ended.
1942 - The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
1982 - The movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" opened.
1987 - Margaret Thatcher won her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.
1991 - Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral held at Washington National Cathedral.
Births 1572 - Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright.
1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer.
1880 - Jeannette Pickering Rankin, first woman elected to Congress.
1910 - Jacques Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer, oceanographer.
1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach.
1932 - Athol Fugard, South African dramatist and director.
1933 - Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman), American actor and comedian.
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver.
Deaths 1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator and naturalist, and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American film actor.
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American television and film actor.
2003 - David Brinkley, American news broadcaster.
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