Historical Events on June 11: The Book of History Records, Birthdays, Deaths, and Name Days

1258: The English barons under Simon de Montfort force King Henry III. of Anjou-Plantagenet the Oxford Commissions, which constitute a curtailment of royal power.
1903: King Alexander I Obrenović of Serbia and Queen Draga are brutally murdered by officers in Belgrade’s Konak, their bodies are completely mutilated with saber blows and thrown out of the window. The pro-Russian conspirators kill more than 60 personalities loyal to the king in Belgrade. (After the Obrenović family was wiped out, Peter I Karadjordjevic, brought from exile, becomes the Serbian king.)
1913: Grand Vizier Mahmud Şevket Pasha is murdered in Constantinople. Sultan Mehmed V appoints the former Turkish Foreign Minister Said Halim Pasha as the new head of government.
1918: In south-eastern Albania, Austro-Hungarian troops struggled to withstand French attacks near Korça.
1933: National Socialist assassination attempt on the Tyrolean Heimwehr leader Richard Steidle. (He was murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1940.)
1943: In his capacity as “Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationality”, SS Chief Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in the occupied Polish and Soviet territories.
1948: The Dutch parliament passes a law allowing the removal of communist representatives from local councils.
1948: The Vatican and India agree to establish diplomatic relations.
1973: Researchers from the University of Delaware (USA) complete the world’s first solar-powered house.
1983: André Heller’s giant fireworks on the Tejo in Lisbon (“Theater des Feuers”/”Teatro de Fogo”) attracts more than half a million people.
1983: After 15 years of work, the converted ORF broadcasting center in Vienna’s Argentinierstraße is opened with 38 studios.
1988: A concert honoring the imprisoned South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela is taking place at London’s Wembley Stadium. Numerous governments are calling on the apartheid regime to release the leader of the African National Congress (ANC).
2003: A Palestinian gunman disguised as an orthodox Jew blew himself up on a public bus in Jerusalem, killing 16 people. 70 people are injured, some seriously.
2008: Sabine Haag is presented as the new director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. As of January 1, 2009, she succeeds long-term director Wilfried Seipel.
2008: Before Parliament in Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially apologizes to the Native Americans for the forced assimilation that lasted until the 1970s. About 150,000 Indian, Inuit and other aborigine children were separated from their families and forced to attend boarding schools for re-education. The government pays those affected compensation equivalent to 3.2 billion euros.

birthdays: Fabiola, Dowager Queen of Belgium (Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, née Duchess of Casa Riera) (1928-2014); Gene Wilder, US film actor (1933-2016); Walter Schmogner, Austria painter and draftsman (1943); Joy Denalane, German soul singer (1973); Joshua Jackson, US actor (1978).
days of death: August Sicard v. Sicardsburg, east Architect (1813-1868); Hildegard Burjan, Austria politician (1883-1933); Adam Ledwoń, Polish-German Footballer (1974-2008).
name days: Barnabas, Paula, Roselina, Hilderich, Rimbert, Johannes, Adelheid, Theodosia, Rosemarie.