Tuesday, June 11, 1996




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  • Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole plans to resign today after 35 years on Capitol Hill. Kansas Lt. Gov. Shelia Frahm is scheduled to take the oath of office replacing Dole.

  • State primary elections and run-offs are being held today in Virginia, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina and Maine.

  • The President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, is scheduled to address the Foreign Policy Association's annual dinner in New York tonight.

  • Today, French president Jacques Chirac plans to address the International Labor Organization's annual conference in Geneva.

  • NATO is conducting the largest-ever submarine rescue exercise off the coast of Norway today through Friday.





  • On Wednesday, June 12, Bangladesh goes to polls to elect a new parliament.

  • On Thursday, June 13, President Clinton is to meet separately at the White House with Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, and King Hussein of Jordan.

  • On Friday, June 14, a conference on witchcraft is scheduled in Pietersburg, South Africa, following a series of attacks on women accused of sorcery.

  • Saturday, June 15, is the official birthday celebration for Queen Elizabeth II in London.

  • On Sunday June 16, presidential elections are scheduled in Russia.





  • In 1770, Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship "Endeavour," discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.

  • On June eleventh, 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

  • In 1919, "Sir Barton" won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.

  • In 1949, the Russian military occupation of the former East Germany ended.

  • In 1963, Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

  • In 1969, the song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie was re-released to coincide with Apollo 11's trip to the moon.

  • In 1970, the United States presence in Libya came to an end as the last detachment left Wheelus Air Base.

  • In 1977, a 20-day hostage drama in the Netherlands ended as Dutch marines stormed a train and a school held by South Moluccan extremists. Six gunmen and two hostages on the train were killed.

  • In 1978, Joseph Freeman Jr. became the first black priest ordained in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

  • In 1979, actor John Wayne died at age 72.

  • In 1985, Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, New Jersey, at age 31.

  • In 1986, by a 5-to-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law, while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.





  • After bellyaching from the cereal-loving public ($4 for a box of Frosted Flakes?!), America's largest maker of breakfast fare, the Kellogg Co., Monday announced that it was cutting prices on some of its most popular brands of by an average of 19 percent. The move follows similar cuts by Kellogg rival Post Cereal eight weeks ago. For all you ever wanted to know about cereal (or didn't want to know), nothing on the Web tops Flake World, the original cybercereal picture gallery and shopping mall. Take a trip down memory lane through the Grain God Gallery, a retrospective of notable boxes from the 1930s through the 1970s. Order reproductions of classic cereal boxes. Browse through back issues of Flake magazine. You're sure to be bowled over.





  • Today is Evacuation Day in Libya, recognizing the departure of U.S. troops.

  • Hawaii celebrates King Kamehameha I Day, in honor of the Hawaiian monarch (1737-1819).

  • Today marks National Clay Week, a festival commemorating the heritage of the Uhrichsville, Ohio valley as the clay center of the world.



  • Sources: Associated Press,
    Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan

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