On This Day
11 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1897 Ram Prasad Bismil, poet, writer and revolutionary, was born. He participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925, and fought against British Raj. He played an active role in India's freedom struggle.
- 1997 Mihir Sen, famous Indian long distance swimmer and lawyer, died. He was the first Asian to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958, and did so in the fourth fastest time. He was the only man to swim the oceans of the five continents in one calendar year.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, was born. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy.
- 1938 In what Steven Dutch, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, called "the world's largest act of environmental warfare in history", the Chinese government created the flood to halt invading Japanese forces.
- 1991 Microsoft released MS-DOS 5.0, which had undelete and unformat utilities, and task swapping.
- 2009 The World Health Organization declared H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years.
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