June 11

National

•   USA , Hawaii - Kamehameha day, a holiday in honor of the first king of Hawaii.
•   Denmark - Prince Henrik's Birthday.

  Religious

  Catholicism

• Day of the Holy Apostle Barnabas ^[2] .

  Orthodoxy ^{[3] [4] [5]}

• memory of the Venerable Martyr Theodosius of the Virgin (730);
• memory of blessed John, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Ustyuzhsky (1494);
• the finding of the relics of the Monk Job in the schema of Jesus of Anzersk (2000);
• memory of the martyr Theodosius of the Virgin of Tire (307-308);
• memory of the First Ecumenical Council (325);
• Cathedral of the Saints of the Krasnoyarsk Metropolis ;
• memory of the holy martyr John Preobrazhensky, protodeacon, and martyr Andrei Trofimov (1938);
• memory of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) , confessor, archbishop of Simferopol and Crimean (1961);
• memory of the icons of the Mother of God:
  • Mateliky (Metelinsky);
  • The Companion of Sinners (1843);
  • Cesar - Borovsky;
  • The Napping Eye ^[6] .

Name Day

• Orthodox name day: Alexandra , Andrew , Ivan , Luke , Maria , Fedot .
• Catholic Name Day: Barnabas , Felix .

See also: Category: June 11 events

Until the 19th century

• 1125 - Crusaders defeated the Seljuks at the Battle of Azaz .
• 1496 - Christopher Columbus completed his second journey, after which he fell out of favor with the Queen of Spain due to the fact that he could not find a way to China .
• 1580 - Buenos Aires was founded by the Spanish conquistadors on the second attempt.
• 1742 - Benjamin Franklin invented an economical stove .
• 1742 - an agreement was signed in Breslau , according to which Austria recognized the rights of Prussia to Silesia .
• 1770 - James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia .
• 1776 - The Second Continental Congress created a committee to write the Declaration of Independence .

XIX century

• 1826 - The first Moscow Eye Hospital opened .
• 1858 - St. Isaac's Cathedral was consecrated in St. Petersburg .
• 1842 - Nikolai Gogol 's poem Dead Souls was published .
• 1889 - Americans John Purdy and James Sadggar from Washington invented a folding chair ^[7] .
• 1898 - The beginning of the “ One Hundred Days of Reforms ” was announced in China.

XX century

• 1901 - Cook Islands declared part of New Zealand .
• 1913 - The All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition opened in Kiev .
• 1917 - in the Baltic Sea , near the island of Gotland, the Lioness submarine of the Russian Navy exploded and drowned. ^[eight] .
• 1918 - the Kazakh national movement Alash declared illegal all the decrees of the Soviet government in Kazakhstan .
• 1926 - The British government protested in connection with the financing of strikes in the UK from the USSR .
• 1930 - American zoologist William Beebe ( Charles William Beebe ) and engineer Otis Barton ( Otis Barton ) on the bathysphere they built fall into the water at 400 m ^[9] .
• 1940 - New Zealand , Australia, and the Union of South Africa declare war on Italy .
• 1955 - the biggest accident in motorsport - 84 dead (pilot Pierre Leveg and 83 spectators).
• 1965 - Queen Elizabeth of England awarded The Beatles to the Order of the British Empire .
• 1973 - in Libya , the nationalization of American oil companies was announced.
• 1975
  • Greece adopted the Constitution . ^[10] .
  • The first oil was produced in the North Sea .
• 1980 - The Lower Svirsky Nature Reserve was established in the Leningrad Region .
• 1982 - Steven Spielberg’s movie “ Alien ” was released on the US screens.
• 1990 - The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to introduce a new procedure for calculating time - the time of the second time zone was established.
• 1991 - Microsoft released the MS DOS 5.0 operating system.
• 1992 - the state voucher privatization program was adopted in Russia .
• 1996 - a terrorist attack took place in a metro car in Moscow at the Tulskaya station .

21st Century

• 2010
  • During the night riots in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan , 26 people died and about 150 were injured ^[11] .
  • In South Africa , the World Cup began .

See also: Category: Born on June 11

Until the 19th century

• 1527 - Anna Sophia (d. 1591 ), Princess of Prussia , married Duchess of Mecklenburg .
• 1572 - Ben Johnson (d. 1637 ), English poet, playwright, actor, drama theorist.
• 1776 - John Constable (d. 1837 ), English landscape painter.

XIX century

• 1811 - Vissarion Belinsky (d. 1848 ), Russian literary critic, publicist, philosopher and democrat.
• 1812 - Fedor Moller (d. 1874 ), Russian officer, artist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts .
• 1818 - Alexander Ben (d. 1903 ), Scottish philosopher, psychologist and teacher.
• 1832 - Jules Valles (d. 1885 ), French writer and politician, revolutionary, member of the Paris Commune .
• 1838 - Mariano Fortuni (d. 1874 ), a Spanish artist whose work influenced the painting technique of M. Vrubel .
• 1845 - Eugene Münz (d. 1902 ), French art historian.
• 1853 - Emil Riebeck (d. 1885 ), German traveler, ethnologist , mineralogist, naturalist and collector.
• 1857 - Anthony Grabowski (d. 1921 ), Polish chemical engineer, poet, "father of poetry in Esperanto ."
• 1861 - Sigismund Zaremba (d. 1915 ), Russian composer, pianist.
• 1864 - Richard Strauss (d. 1949 ), German composer and conductor.
• 1867 - Charles Fabry (d. 1945 ), French physicist, inventor, one of the discoverers of the ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere.
• 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin (d. 1975 ), Soviet political and military leader.
• 1898 - Vasily Nebolsin (d. 1959 ), conductor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata (d. 1972 ), Japanese writer, Nobel laureate (1968).

XX century

• 1902
  • Ernst Wilhelm Nye (d. 1968 ), German painter and graphic artist.
  • Vissarion Shebalin (d. 1963 ), composer, teacher, people's artist of the RSFSR.
• 1906 - Olga Vysotskaya (d. 2000 ), announcer of the All-Union Radio , People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1908 - Alexei Chernov (d. 1978 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1910 - Jacques Yves Cousteau (d. 1997 ), French oceanographer, inventor of scuba gear .
• 1912
  • James Algar (d. 1998 ), American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and animator.
  • Mukhtar Ashrafi (d. 1975 ), Uzbek composer, conductor, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
  • William Baziotis (d. 1963 ), American painter, abstraction .
• 1914 - Yuri Sotnik (d. 1997 ), Russian Soviet writer, author of books for adolescents.
• 1918 - Jane Brian (d. 2009 ), American film actress.
• 1919 - Richard Todd (d. 2009 ), Irish film actor.
• 1925 - William Styron (d. 2006 ), American writer, Pulitzer Prize laureate.
• 1928 - Felix Krivin (d. 2016 ), Russian Soviet writer and poet, science fiction writer, screenwriter.
• 1933 - Gene Wilder (d. 2016 ), American actor, screenwriter, film director, writer, winner of the Emmy Award.
• 1935 - Nina Timofeeva (d. 2014 ), ballet dancer, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1941 - Evgeny Kharitonov (d. 1981 ), Russian Soviet poet, prose writer, playwright, film director.
• 1942 - Yaroslav Petrov , Soviet and Belarusian opera singer, People's Artist of Belarus.
• 1943 - Oleg Vidov (d. 2017 ), Soviet and American actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1946 - Philip Hirschhorn , Soviet-Belgian violinist.
• 1949
  • Frank Beard , American musician, drummer for ZZ Top .
  • George Willig , an American stuntman, climbed the WTC South Tower in New York in 1977.
• 1951 - Bidzina Chkheidze , Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter.
• 1955 - Yuri Sedykh , Soviet hammer thrower, two-time Olympic champion.
• 1956 - Sergey Zharikov , Soviet Russian rock musician, founder of the DK group.
• 1957 - Evgeny Dodolev , Soviet and Russian journalist, television presenter, media manager.
• 1959 - Hugh Laurie , British actor, three-time Golden Globe Award winner.
• 1969
  • Peter Dinklage , American film and theater actor.
  • Sergey Juran , Soviet and Russian football player.
• 1970 - Venya D'rkin (real name Alexander Litvinov ; d. 1999 ), Ukrainian bard , poet, musician.
• 1971 - Evgenia Kryukova , theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia.
• 1975 - Denis Matsuev , Russian pianist virtuoso, People's Artist of Russia.
• 1983
  • Yuriy Anikeev , Ukrainian athlete (Russian and international drafts), world champion in drafts-64.
  • Ekaterina Yuryeva , Russian biathlete, world champion (2008).
• 1984 - Wagner Love , Brazilian footballer.
• 1985 - Dmitry Koldun , Belarusian singer, composer, participant of the Eurovision-2007 contest.
• 1986 - Shia Lababe , American actor.

See also: Category: Dead on June 11

Until the 20th century.

• 89 BC e. - Titus Didius (born c. 140 BC), Roman consul , participant in the Allied war , was killed.
• 1183 - Henry the Young (b. 1155 ), king of England, co-ruler of his father, King Henry II .
• 1488 - James III (b. 1452 ), king of Scotland (1460-1488).
• 1727 - George I (b. 1660 ), the first representative of the Hanover dynasty on the royal throne of Great Britain .
• 1843 - Peter Wittgenstein (b. 1769 ), Russian Field Marshal, His Serene Highness Prince, Hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 .
• 1859 - Clemens von Metternich (b. 1773 ), Austrian statesman.
• 1867 - Karl Otto Weber (b. 1827 ), German surgeon.
• 1900 - Isabella Maria Boyd (b. 1844 ), one of the Confederate spies during the US Civil War .

XX century

• 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich (b. 1876 ), king of Serbia , was killed during a coup.
• 1909 - Jacob Gordin (b. 1853 ), Jewish playwright ("The Jewish King Lear", "God, Man and the Devil").
• 1934 - Leo Vygotsky (b. 1896 ), Soviet psychologist, creator of cultural-historical theory .
• 1936 - Robert Irwin Howard (b. 1906 ), American science fiction writer.
• 1937
  • Mate Zalka (real name Bela Frankl ; born 1896 ), a Hungarian communist writer and general, died during the Spanish Civil War .
  • Reginald Mitchell (b. 1895 ), English aircraft designer, creator of the Spitfire fighter.
• 1947 - Richard Hoenigswald (b. 1875 ), Hungarian, German and American philosopher, author of works on the psychology of thinking.
• 1956 - Frankie Trumbauer (b. 1901 ), American jazz saxophonist, band leader.
• 1961 - Luke (b. 1877 ), professor of medicine and spiritual writer, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church , archbishop of Simferopol and Crimean , laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree.
• 1970 - Alexander Kerensky (b. 1881 ), a prominent Russian political and public figure, chairman of the Provisional Government .
• 1972 - Eugene Babich (b. 1921 ), Soviet hockey player, Olympic champion (1956), world champion.
• 1974 - Julius Evola (b. 1898 ), Italian thinker, esotericist and writer.
• 1979 - John Wayne (real name Marion Michael Morrison ; born 1907 ), American actor, "King of the West."
• 1982 - Anatoly Solonitsyn (b. 1934 ), Soviet film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR .
• 1987 - Alexander Lokshin (b. 1920 ), Soviet composer.
• 1990 - Irakliy Andronikov (b. 1908 ), writer, literary critic, master of fiction, television presenter, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1994 - Nikolai Chersky (b. 1905 ), Soviet and Russian scientist, specialist in the field of exploration and development of oil and gas fields.
• 1996 - Brigitte Helm (b. 1906 ), German film actress.
• 1997 - Yuri Karachun (b. 1931 ), Belarusian artist, art critic, director of the National Museum of Art .

21st Century

• 2001 - Timothy McVeigh (born 1968 ), American criminal, organizer of the terrorist attack in Oklahoma City , was executed.
• 2006 - Marianna Tavrog (b. 1921 ), Soviet and Russian film director.
• 2009 - George Weiner (b. 1938 ), Soviet and Russian writer, journalist.
• 2010 - Sigmar Polke (b. 1941 ), German postmodern artist.
• 2012 - Teofilo Stevenson (b. 1952 ), Cuban boxer, three-time Olympic champion and world champion.
• 2015 - Ornett Coleman (b. 1930 ), American jazz saxophonist and composer.

• 1632 - Robinson Crusoe returned to England, having been in the absence of 35 years, of which more than 28 years - on a desert island. ( Daniel Defoe , “The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived twenty-eight years all alone on an uninhabited island off the coast of America near the mouth of the Orinoco River, where he was thrown after a shipwreck, during which the entire crew of the ship except him , died; with a statement of his unexpected release by the pirates, written by himself ").

• Theodosius the Colossus. Ears of rye , sowing buckwheat .
• Spikes (chariots), spikes, ears of rye - the rye of early sowing begins to spike.
• Dry fog during flowering harms the bread .
• Ears of rye - you will find many mushrooms .
• It was rumored among the people that “the day of the Fedosya is all Mondays” (that is, unlucky) ^[12] .