Calendar Page: What Happened on June 11?

This entry from the dpa news agency serves as a historical calendar, detailing significant events, anecdotes, birthdays, and death anniversaries associated with June 11th. The compilation offers a snapshot of various moments in history, from media milestones to legal changes and notable figures.

Among the historical data for June 11th, the year 2013 marked a significant shift in the publishing world as media giant Bertelsmann announced the discontinuation of its lexicon business, signaling the end of the renowned printed Brockhaus encyclopedia. Six years prior, in 2001, Timothy McVeigh was executed in the United States for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, which claimed 168 lives.

Further historical entries include the year 1994, when Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code ceased to be effective. This paragraph had previously criminalized homosexual acts involving male minors under 18. In 1981, CDU politician Richard von Weizsäcker was elected Governing Mayor of West Berlin by the House of Representatives. Additionally, in 1971, the former prison island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, occupied by Native American activists for 19 months, was cleared by the Coast Guard. The island, closed in 1963, was subsequently opened to visitors.

The calendar also notes birthdays, including Sébastien Lecornu, a French politician born in 1986, and Joe Montana, the American football quarterback who won four Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers, born in 1956. German photographer Axel Hütte and TV moderator and sports reporter Manfred Breuckmann were both born in 1951.

Notable death anniversaries include Brigitte Helm, a German actress famous for her role in the silent film "Metropolis," who was born in 1908.