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• Today is Tuesday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2013. There are 203 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On June 11, 1963, in one of the most shocking images of the Vietnam War era, a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc (tihk kwang duk), set himself afire on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem (noh deen dyem). (The scene was captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Malcolm Browne of The Associated Press.)
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• On this date:
• In 1509, England's King Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
• In 1770, Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
• In 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.
• In 1913, football coach Vince Lombardi and opera singer Rise Stevens were born in New York City.
• In 1919, Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
• In 1938, Johnny Vander Meer pitched the first of two consecutive no-hitters as he led the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 victory over the Boston Bees. (Four days later, Vander Meer refused to give up a hit to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost, 6-0.)
• In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
• In 1962, three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay staged an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they were never found or heard from again.
• In 1971, the year-and-a-half-long occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay by American Indian activists ended as federal officers evicted the remaining protesters.
• In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
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