History for June 11

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Ben Johnson 1572 - English Renaissance Dramatist, Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau) 1910 - Naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, Vince Lombardi 1913 - Football coach 


William Styron 1925 - Novelist and essayist, Jackie Stewart (Sir John Young Stewart OBE) 1939 - Racing driver, team owner, nicknamed The Flying Scot, Adrienne Barbeau (Adrienne Jo Barbeau) 1945 - Actress, author 


1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon. 


1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground. 


1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile. 


1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City. 


1930 - 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. 


1977 - In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed. 


1982 - Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T." opened. 


1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office. 


1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag. 


1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.