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Anniversaries: June 11

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Events

In 1509 King Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon; in 1987 Margaret Thatcher celebrated her third election victory.

Births

Ben Jonson, bricklayer and dramatist, 1572; John Constable, painter, 1776; Richard Strauss, composer, 1864; Jacques Cousteau, explorer and underwater film-maker, 1910.

Deaths

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Roger Bacon, Franciscan friar thought to have invented gunpowder, 1292; James III, King of Scotland 1460-88, 1488; King George I, 1714-27, 1727; Sir John Franklin, explorer, 1847; R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire, 1937; Billy (Bombardier) Wells, boxer, 1967; John Wayne, actor, 1979.