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On This Day In History for June 11, 2025
This is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining in 2025.

It was on this date in 1509, that Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon.
That same date in 1559, Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sailed for Florida with a party of 1,500, intending to settle on the gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico).
On June 11, 1748, Denmark adopted the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
It was on this date in 1770, that British explorer Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
Also on June 11, 1776, The Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
Also today in 1788, Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reached Alaska.
It was also this date in 1892 that The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
Inventor Edwin Armstrong gave the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey on this date in 1935.
63 years ago today, Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly became the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
It was on this date in 1998, that Compaq Computer paid US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
That same date in 2002, Antonio Meucci was acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe on this date in 2004.
That same date in 2008, The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into orbit.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German astronomer (died 1788), Johann Georg Palitzsch, born on this date in 1723.
Also born on that same date in 1834,  German mechanical engineer and physicist (died 1893), Johann Bauschinger.
Also turning 183 today is German engineer and academic (died 1934) Carl von Linde.
French physicist and academic (died 1945), Charles Fabry, born on this date in 1867.
German-American mathematician and photographer (died 2003), Natascha Artin Brunswick is 116 today.
French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (died 1997), Jacques Cousteau, born on this date in 1910.
Also born on that same date in 1915,  American mathematician and physicist (died 1999), Nicholas Metropolis.
American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016), Gene Wilder, born on this date in 1933.
American actor and producer, Peter Dinklage is 56 today.
American actor, Shia LaBeouf, born on this date in 1986.

Listener Birthdays

15 – Miss Eliza Sea from Wingin’ It 3D
16 – Joe Edmisson
16 – Jason from The Angry Geek
17 – Digital Dan from the Hook Show

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 11, 2025

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