June 11
1509
King Henry VIII married his first wife, Katharine of Aragon.
1770
Capt. James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia .
1919
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.
1963
Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama following Gov. George Wallace’s famous “stand in the schoolhouse door.”
1977
Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
2001
Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, was executed.
Birthdays
Jacques Cousteau
1910–97, French oceanographer and naval officer.
John Constable
painter (1776)
Julia Margaret Cameron
pioneer photographer (1815)
Jeannette Rankin
first female member of U.S. Congress (1880)
Vince Lombardi
football (1913)
William Styron
novelist (1925)
Jackie Stewart
race driver (1939)
Henry Cisneros
political official (1947)