1910<\/strong> – Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – Silas Christofferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – British troops took Cameroon in Africa.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia,\u00a0PA.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0government announced an end to sugar rationing.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near-fatal car accident. He won the U.S.\u00a0Open.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in\u00a0Florida\u00a0for trying to integrate restaurants.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by a South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The first major league baseball player’s strike began. It would last for two months.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Steven Spielberg’s movie “E.T.” opened.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that people who commit “hate crimes” could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jurassic Park” opened.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in Normal,\u00a0IL, had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Pakistan announced a moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – The FIFA World Cup opener in South Africa. It was the first time it was held in Africa.<\/p>\n History of 11 June 1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. 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