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On June 11, 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
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On June 11, 1880, Jeannette Rankin, the first female member of Congress, was born. Following her death on May 18, 1973, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1509	England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon.
1942	The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
1963	Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school.
1963	Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1977	Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
1986	A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
1987	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third consecutive term in office.
1990	The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
2001	Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2002	Rock musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle. (The couple divorced in 2008.)
2009	The World Health Organization declared the swine flu outbreak a pandemic.
2010	The FIFA World Cup opened in South Africa, the first time soccer's biggest tournament was held on that continent.

Current Birthdays

Actor Hugh Laurie ("House M.D.") turns 52 years old today.

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New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes turns 28 years old today.

AP Photo/Steve Mitchell

1930	Charles Rangel, U.S. congressman, D-N.Y., turns 81
1933	Gene Wilder, Actor, turns 78
1937	Chad Everett, Actor, turns 74
1939	Jackie Stewart, Auto racer, turns 72
1945	Adrienne Barbeau, Actress, turns 66
1949	Frank Beard, Rock musician (ZZ Top), turns 62
1953	Peter Bergman, Actor ("The Young and the Restless"), turns 58
1953	Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota, turns 58
1956	Joe Montana, Football Hall of Famer, turns 55
1969	Peter Dinklage, Actor, turns 42
1978	Joshua Jackson, Actor ("Fringe," "Dawson's Creek"), turns 33
1982	Diana Taurasi, Basketball player, turns 29
1986	Shia LaBeouf, Actor, turns 25

Historic Birthdays

Jeannette Rankin6/11/1880 - 5/18/1973First female member of the Congress of the United States.Go to obituary »

78	George Wither 6/11/1588 - 5/2/1667 English poet and Puritan pamphleteer
60	John Constable 6/11/1776 - 3/31/1837 English landscape painter
63	Julia Cameron 6/11/1815 - 1/26/1879 English portrait photographer
82	Dame Millicent Fawcett 6/11/1847 - 8/5/1929 English women's suffrage leader
85	Richard Strauss 6/11/1864 - 9/8/1949 German Romantic composer
72	Yasunari Kawabata 6/11/1899 - 4/16/1972 Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist (1968)
72	Ernie Nevers 6/11/1903 - 5/3/1976 American football and baseball player
87	Jacques-Yves Cousteau 6/11/1910 - 6/25/1997 French naval officer and oceanographer
57	Vince Lombardi 6/11/1913 - 9/3/1970 American professional football coach
72	Irving Howe 6/11/1920 - 5/5/1993 American literary and social critic