A birthday on the globe
11 June on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 11 June, the English Wikipedia lists 73 events and 142 births. 44 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; nine more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 11 June
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in June 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 11 June the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 23.1° north. In London, the day lasts about 16 hours 35 minutes.
Beyond 67° north the Sun no longer sets; beyond 67° south it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Britain & Ireland · London International Surrealist Exhibition
1936
The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
On the map: London International Surrealist Exhibition.
Europe · Kyiv
980
Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
On the map: Kyiv.
Europe · Reims Cathedral
1775
The Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims, the last coronation before the French Revolution.
On the map: Reims Cathedral.
Europe · Paris
1895
Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
On the map: Paris.
Africa · FNB Stadium
2010
The first FIFA World Cup held on African soil kicks off in South Africa.
On the map: FNB Stadium.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese.
Asia · University of Karachi
1978
Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
On the map: University of Karachi.
Oceania · Melbourne
1892
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
On the map: Melbourne.
North America · United States Declaration of Independence
1776
American Revolution: The Second Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
On the map: the coordinates Wikidata gives for the article “United States Declaration of Independence”.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
North America · Chicago Coliseum
1920
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".
On the map: Chicago Coliseum.
North America · United States Congress
2002
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
On the map: United States Congress.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
11 June
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Camagüey
1933
The Spanish aviators Mariano Barberán and Joaquín Collar, in the plane Cuatro Vientos, arrive in Camagüey (Cuba) from Seville, setting a world record for non-stop flight over the sea.
On the map: Camagüey.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Estadio La Portada
2015
In Santiago de Chile, the 2015 Copa América football tournament begins.
On the map: Estadio La Portada.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
11 June
Born on 11 June#
The English Wikipedia lists 142 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 60 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 11 June
1899
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
Place of birth: Osaka.
Born on 11 June
1910
Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (died 1997)
Place of birth: Saint-André-de-Cubzac.
Born on 11 June
1933
Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Place of birth: Milwaukee.
Born on 11 June
1864
Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (died 1949)
Place of birth: Munich.
Born on 11 June
1969
Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer
Place of birth: Morristown.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1572
Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and critic (died 1637)
Place of birth: Westminster.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1959
Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter
Place of birth: Blackbird Leys.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1776
John Constable, English painter and academic (died 1837)
Place of birth: East Bergholt.
11 June
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
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All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
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Below: 11 June through the years.
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Everything Wikipedia lists for 11 June
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 20 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 173
Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm, emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
no place on the mapWikipedia: Marcomannic Wars - 631
Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Emperor Taizong of Tang - 786
A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh.
Asia · Battle of FakhkhWikipedia: Battle of Fakhkh - 806
Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
Asia · Asia MinorWikipedia: Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor - 980
Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
Europe · KyivWikipedia: Vladimir the Great - 1011
Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the Lombard rebels led by Melus and deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor (catepan) of the Catepanate of Italy.
Europe · Norman conquest of southern ItalyWikipedia: Norman conquest of southern Italy - 1042
Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita marries Constantine Monomachos, who is crowned the following day as Byzantine Emperor.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Zoe Porphyrogenita - 1118
Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
Asia · AzazWikipedia: Seljuk dynasty - 1157
Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first margrave.
Europe · BrandenburgWikipedia: Albert the Bear - 1345
The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
Asia · Byzantine EmpireWikipedia: Megas doux - 1429
Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau.
Europe · Battle of JargeauWikipedia: Hundred Years' War - 1482
The Treaty of Fotheringhay is signed between the English and Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, the rebellious brother of king James III of Scotland.
Britain & Ireland · English invasion of ScotlandWikipedia: English invasion of Scotland - 1488
The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the king.
Britain & Ireland · Battle of SauchieburnWikipedia: Battle of Sauchieburn - 1509
Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Henry VIII - 1559
Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with a party of 1,500, intending to settle on the gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico).
no place on the mapWikipedia: Tristán de Luna y Arellano - 1594
Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
Asia · PhilippinesWikipedia: Philip II of Spain - 1685
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, lands at Lyme in Dorset with loyal followers with the intent to depose king James II of England.
Britain & Ireland · Monmouth RebellionWikipedia: Monmouth Rebellion - 1702
Anglo-Dutch forces skirmish with French forces before the walls of Nijmegen and prevent its fall.
Europe · NijmegenWikipedia: Assault on Nijmegen - 1724
Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV 20, on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his second cycle, the chorale cantata cycle.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Johann Sebastian Bach - 1748
Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
Europe · DenmarkWikipedia: Denmark - 1770
British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
Oceania · Great Barrier ReefWikipedia: Great Barrier Reef - 1775
The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
North America · Battle of MachiasWikipedia: Battle of Machias - 1775
The Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims, the last coronation before the French Revolution.
Europe · Reims CathedralWikipedia: Coronation of Louis XVI - 1776
American Revolution: The Second Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
North America · United States Declaration of IndependenceWikipedia: American Revolution - 1788
Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Gerasim Izmailov - 1805
A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
North America · DetroitWikipedia: Great Fire of 1805 - 1825
The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
North America · Fort HamiltonWikipedia: Cornerstone - 1837
The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
North America · BostonWikipedia: 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.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil - 1865
The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
Latin America · Battle of RiachueloWikipedia: Battle of Riachuelo - 1882
Nationalist riots break out in Alexandria directed against foreign domination. More than 50 Europeans are killed, including the British consul.
Africa · AlexandriaWikipedia: Urabi revolt - 1892
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
Oceania · MelbourneWikipedia: Limelight Department - 1895
Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
Europe · ParisWikipedia: Paris–Bordeaux–Paris - 1898
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.)
no place on the mapWikipedia: Hundred Days' Reform - 1901
The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
Oceania · Cook IslandsWikipedia: Colony of New Zealand - 1903
A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
Europe · May CoupWikipedia: May Coup - 1914
Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
Britain & Ireland · Kenwood HouseWikipedia: 1914 Kenwood House ball - 1917
King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
Europe · AthensWikipedia: Triple Entente - 1919
Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Belmont Stakes - 1920
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".
North America · Chicago ColiseumWikipedia: 1920 Republican National Convention - 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.
Africa · Kenya ColonyWikipedia: Jasper Abraham murder case - 1936
Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.
North America · Washington, D.C.Wikipedia: Edwin Howard Armstrong - 1936
The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
Britain & Ireland · London International Surrealist ExhibitionWikipedia: London International Surrealist Exhibition - 1937
Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
Asia · Soviet UnionWikipedia: Great Purge - 1938
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
Asia · Battle of WuhanWikipedia: Battle of Wuhan - 1940
World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
no place on the mapWikipedia: World War II - 1942
Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
Africa · Bir HakeimWikipedia: Free France - 1942
World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Lend-Lease - 1944
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.
Asia · Japanese Instrument of SurrenderWikipedia: Japanese Instrument of Surrender - 1955
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.
Europe · 1955 Le Mans disasterWikipedia: 1955 Le Mans disaster - 1956
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.
Asia · Dominion of CeylonWikipedia: 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom - 1962
Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
North America · June 1962 Alcatraz escapeWikipedia: June 1962 Alcatraz escape - 1963
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.
North America · Stand in the Schoolhouse DoorWikipedia: Civil rights movement - 1963
Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
Asia · Ho Chi Minh CityWikipedia: Thích Quảng Đức - 1963
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.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 1964
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.
Europe · Cologne school massacreWikipedia: Cologne school massacre - 1968
Lloyd J. Old identifies the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Lloyd J. Old - 1970
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.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Anna Mae Hays - 1971
The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
North America · Occupation of AlcatrazWikipedia: Indigenous peoples of the Americas - 1978
Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
Asia · University of KarachiWikipedia: University of Karachi - 1981
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
Asia · GolbafWikipedia: Golbaf - 1987
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Diane Abbott - 1998
Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Compaq - 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.
Britain & Ireland · BournemouthWikipedia: Tesco bomb campaign - 2001
Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
North America · Oklahoma City bombingWikipedia: Oklahoma City bombing - 2002
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
North America · United States CongressWikipedia: United States Congress - 2004
Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Cassini–Huygens - 2007
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
Asia · ChittagongWikipedia: 2007 Chittagong mudslides - 2008
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Prime Minister of Canada - 2008
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - 2010
The first FIFA World Cup held on African soil kicks off in South Africa.
Africa · FNB StadiumWikipedia: 2010 FIFA World Cup - 2012
Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
Asia · 2012 Afghanistan earthquakesWikipedia: 2012 Afghanistan earthquakes - 2013
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
Europe · Hellenic Broadcasting CorporationWikipedia: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
- 1933
The Spanish aviators Mariano Barberán and Joaquín Collar, in the plane Cuatro Vientos, arrive in Camagüey (Cuba) from Seville, setting a world record for non-stop flight over the sea.
- 2015
In Santiago de Chile, the 2015 Copa América football tournament begins.
Latin America · Estadio La PortadaTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in SpanishWikipedia: Copa América 2015
Who was born on 11 June
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 142 are shown.
- 1899
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
- 1910
Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (died 1997)
Saint-André-de-CubzacWikipedia: Jacques Cousteau - 1933
Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)
MilwaukeeWikipedia: Gene Wilder - 1864
Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (died 1949)
- 1969
Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer
MorristownWikipedia: Peter Dinklage - 1986
Shia LaBeouf, American actor
Los AngelesWikipedia: Shia LaBeouf - 1572
Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and critic (died 1637)
WestminsterWikipedia: Ben Jonson - 1959
Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter
Blackbird LeysWikipedia: Hugh Laurie - 1776
John Constable, English painter and academic (died 1837)
East BergholtWikipedia: John Constable - 1988
Claire Holt, Australian actress
BrisbaneWikipedia: Claire Holt - 1939
Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver and sports presenter
DumbartonWikipedia: Jackie Stewart - 1999
Kai Havertz, German footballer
AachenWikipedia: Kai Havertz - 1895
Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (died 1975)
Nizhny NovgorodWikipedia: Nikolai Bulganin - 1937
Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
AdelaideWikipedia: Robin Warren - 1997
Unai Simón, Spanish footballer
Vitoria-GasteizWikipedia: Unai Simón - 1925
William Styron, American novelist and essayist (died 2006)
Newport NewsWikipedia: William Styron - 1880
Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (died 1973)
MissoulaWikipedia: Jeannette Rankin - 1815
Julia Margaret Cameron, Indian-Sri Lankan photographer (died 1879)
Garden ReachWikipedia: Julia Margaret Cameron - 1876
Alfred L. Kroeber, American-French anthropologist and ethnologist (died 1960)
HobokenWikipedia: Alfred Kroeber - 1978
Joshua Jackson, Canadian-American actor
VancouverWikipedia: Joshua Jackson - 1456
Anne Neville, Princess of Wales and Queen Consort of England (died 1485)
Warwick CastleWikipedia: Anne Neville - 1945
Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
SacramentoWikipedia: Adrienne Barbeau - 1968
Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1928
Queen Fabiola of Belgium (died 2014)
- 1984
Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
Rio de JaneiroWikipedia: Vágner Love - 1871
Stjepan Radić, Croatian lawyer and politician (died 1928)
Martinska VesWikipedia: Stjepan Radić - 1964
Jean Alesi, French racing driver
MontfavetWikipedia: Jean Alesi - 1987
Gonzalo Castro, German footballer
WuppertalWikipedia: Gonzalo Castro - 1992
Davide Zappacosta, Italian footballer
- 1955
Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower (died 2021)
NovocherkasskWikipedia: Yuriy Sedykh - 1994
Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
BarcelonaWikipedia: Ivana Baquero - 1818
Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and academic (died 1903)
AberdeenWikipedia: Alexander Bain - 1894
Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (died 1952)
WashizuWikipedia: Kiichiro Toyoda - 1913
Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager (died 1970)
BrooklynWikipedia: Vince Lombardi - 1948
Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar
GopalganjWikipedia: Lalu Prasad Yadav - 1982
Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
GlendaleWikipedia: Diana Taurasi - 1990
Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
- 1842
Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (died 1934)
BerndorfWikipedia: Carl von Linde - 1847
Millicent Fawcett, English academic and activist (died 1929)
AldeburghWikipedia: Millicent Fawcett - 1867
Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (died 1945)
MarseilleWikipedia: Charles Fabry - 1877
Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author (died 1909)
LondonWikipedia: Renée Vivien - 1726
Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (died 1746)
- 1988
Jesús Fernández Collado, Spanish footballer
- 2001
Billy Gilmour, Scottish footballer
IrvineWikipedia: Billy Gilmour - 1919
Richard Todd, Irish-English actor (died 2009)
DublinWikipedia: Richard Todd - 1956
Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
New EagleWikipedia: Joe Montana - 1932
Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)
MiddelburgWikipedia: Athol Fugard - 1960
Mehmet Oz, American surgeon, author, and television host
ClevelandWikipedia: Mehmet Oz - 1977
Ryan Dunn, American stunt performer (died 2011)
MedinaWikipedia: Ryan Dunn - 1997
Kodak Black, American rapper
Pompano BeachWikipedia: Kodak Black - 1962
Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach
Passo do SobradoWikipedia: Mano Menezes - 1981
Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
- 1996
Philip Billing, Danish footballer
CopenhagenWikipedia: Philip Billing - 1997
Jorja Smith, English singer
WalsallWikipedia: Jorja Smith - 1662
Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese shōgun (died 1712)
- 1949
Frank Beard, American drummer and songwriter (died 2026)
FrankstonWikipedia: Frank Beard - 1988
Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host
- 1910
Carmine Coppola, American flute player and composer (died 1991)
ManhattanWikipedia: Carmine Coppola - 1897
Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian activist, founded the Hindustan Republican Association (died 1927)
ShahjahanpurWikipedia: Ram Prasad Bismil - 1908
Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (died 1982)
HamburgWikipedia: Karl Hein
What is celebrated on 11 June
- Brazilian Navy Day (Brazil)
- Christian feast day: Alice of Schaerbeek
- Christian feast day: Barnabas the Apostle
- Christian feast day: Bartholomew the Apostle (Eastern Christianity)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Schininà
- Christian feast day: Paula Frassinetti
- Christian feast day: Riagail of Bangor
- Christian feast day: Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé
- Christian feast day: Blessed Yolanda of Poland
- Christian feast day: June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada)
- King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaii, United States)
- Student Day (Honduras)
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For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
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Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.