Historical timeline for June 11

Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

The first FIFA World Cup held on African soil kicks off in South Africa.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

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

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

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

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

Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.

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

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

The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.

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

Lloyd J. Old identifies the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.

World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks 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.

American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.

Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.