On This Day: What happened on 11 June?

Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 11 June, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.

ON THIS DAY: 11 JUNE

2018 | United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first Summit at the Capella Hotel, Sentosa, in Singapore.

2015 | Greece’s public broadcaster ERT was reopened by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

2012 | More than 80 people died in a landslide caused by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village was buried.

2018 | 3rd World Trade Center was officially opened.

2008 | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to the First Canadian States in connection with abuses at a Canadian residential school in India.

2002 | Antonio Meucci was acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

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BIRTHDAYS

1953 | French farmer and politician, José Bové.

1967 | Portuguese mountaineer, João Garcia.

1662 | Japanese shōgun, Tokugawa Ienobu, died in 1712.

1968 | Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, Alois.

1982 | American basketball player, Joey Graham.

ON THIS DAY: DEATHS

2008 | Swedish race car driver, Ove Andersson,  70.

2011 | American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Seth Putnam, 43.

2015 | English actor and singer, Ron Moody, 91.

2001 | American terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, 33

2006 | English soldier, Bruce Shand, 89.

SPORTS

1925 | On this day, Arsenal appointed Herbert Chapman as their manager.

ENTERTAINMENT

 2004 | “Napoleon Dynamite” premiered theatrically on this day in the U.S. and was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2004.

AFRICA FACT

Gabon is one of 13 countries through which the equator passes.