June 11 in history — What Happened Today in History

Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.

The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.

After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.

Lloyd J. Old identifies the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.

World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers, and seriously injuring several more, with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.

American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.

Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.

Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.

Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.

Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.

USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.

World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.

World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.

Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.

Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.

The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.

During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gather in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".

Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.

King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.

A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.

The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.

The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)

Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.

The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

Nationalist riots break out in Alexandria directed against foreign domination. More than 50 Europeans are killed, including the British consul.

Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter

Maya Moore, American basketball player

Jesús Fernández Collado, Spanish footballer

Claire Holt, Australian actress

Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host

Gonzalo Castro, German footballer

Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper

Shia LaBeouf, American actor

Brad Jacobs, Canadian curler

Andy Lee, Irish boxer

Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer

Chuck Hayes, American basketball player

José Reyes, Dominican baseball player

Ron Moody, English actor and singer (born 1924)

Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (born 1945)

Ruby Dee, American actress (born 1922)

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (born 1933)

Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1955)

Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (born 1952)

Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (born 1973)

Miller Barber, American golfer (born 1931)

Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1992)

Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929)

Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (born 1917)

Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952)