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Events on June 11

• 1157 Albrecht the Bear recaptures Brandenburg Castle and expels Jacza von Köpenick. This is regarded as the founding date of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
• 1770 On his first voyage to the South Seas, James Cook runs aground with his ship HMS Endeavour off Cape Tribulation. The Great Barrier Reef discovered in this way would almost have led to the ship's destruction.
• 1836 Freight is transported for the first time on the Ludwig Railway, which opened on 7 December of the previous year. It involves two barrels of beer in exchange for payment of six kreuzers per barrel.
• 1933 In the final of the 1932/33 German Football Championship, Fortuna Düsseldorf defeats FC Schalke 04 3:0. It remains Fortuna Düsseldorf's only championship title to date.
• 1958 In its “Pharmacy Judgment,” the German Federal Constitutional Court formulates the three-tier theory, which specifies when occupational freedom may be legally restricted.
• 1962 Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin manage to escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Whether they survived is uncertain.
• 1981 The House of Representatives of Berlin, newly elected in the snap election on 10 May, elects Richard von Weizsäcker as the first CDU politician to serve as Governing Mayor of West Berlin.
• 1982 Steven Spielberg's film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opens in cinemas in the United States.
• 1985 The largest spy exchange in history takes place on the Glienicke Bridge near Berlin.
• 1994 With the publication of the Twenty-Ninth Criminal Law Amendment Act in the Federal Law Gazette, § 175 of the StGB, which had criminalized male homosexuality under 18, ceases to have effect.
• 2001 A change becomes binding in German nuclear policy. The Federal Government and four nuclear power plant operating companies conclude the agreement on exiting nuclear energy on the basis of the nuclear consensus of 14 June 2000.
• 2010 The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in the Republic of South Africa with the 1:1 opening match between South Africa and Mexico.

Born on June 11

• 1864 Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor
• 1875 George Herbert Walker, American banker
• 1904 Pinetop Smith, American jazz pianist
• 1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanographer
• 1930 Ellen Schwiers, German actress
• 1942 Gunter Gabriel, German singer
• 1951 Manfred Breuckmann, German radio presenter and sports reporter
• 1952 Wolfgang Bosbach, German politician and jurist
• 1973 Joy Denalane, German singer
• 1992 Patrick Franziska, German table tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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