Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 11

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 * 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
 * 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, was lynched by the prisoners.
 * 1509 – Catherine of Aragon (pictured) married King Henry VIII of England, becoming the first of his six wives.
 * 1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
 * 1837 – Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street Riot.
 * 1847 – Prince Afonso died at the age of two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.
 * 1917 – Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine I, who had abdicated.
 * 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
 * 1923 – Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.
 * 1962 – American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States' most famous prisons.
 * 1963 – Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
 * 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
 * 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
 * 2007 – Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
 * 2008 – Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
 * 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.
 * Born/died this day: | Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy |d|1253| James Francis Edward Keith |b|1696| Benjamin Ingham |b|1712| Julia Margaret Cameron |b|1815| Julia Margaret Cameron |b|1815| Millicent Fawcett |b|1847| R. A. Hardie |b|1865| Roger Bresnahan |b|1879| Ernie Nevers |b|1903| Sheila Heaney |b|1917| Gene Wilder |b|1933| Claudia Lauper Bushman |b|1934| Sandra Schmirler |b|1963| Peter Dinklage |b|1969| Julius Evola |d|1974|A. Thurairajah |d|1994| Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |d|2014 Taha Karaan |d|2021