Sunday, June 11, 2000
History today -- 4:22 pm CST, Update by The Master
- 1770: Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
- 1776: The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
- 1947: The U.S. government announced the end of household and institutional sugar rationing, to take effect the next day.
- 1963: Buddhist monk Quang Duc burned to death on a Saigon street to protest against the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1970: The last detachment of U.S. forces leaves Weelus Air Base in Libya, ending U.S. presense there.
- 1979: Actor John Wayne died at age 72.
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