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Today in History

Thursday, 11 June 2026

2008

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

2004

Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

2002

Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

2001

Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

1998

Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

1981

A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.

1978

Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.

1972

The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.

1970

After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.

1964

World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in 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.

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