歷史上的June 11

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  June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of the year.

  anniversaries on June 11:

  1594 – In the Philippines, Philip II of Spainrecognized the right to govern of thePrincipalía, the local nobles and chieftains who had converted to Roman Catholicism.

  1776 – The Second Continental Congressappointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to theCommittee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for Britain's Thirteen Colonies.

  1917 – Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine, who had abdicated.

  1955 – More than 80 people were killed after cars driven byPierre Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race.

  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.

  2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.

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