Reuters historical calendar - June 11

London, June 10 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 11 since 1900: 1903 - King Alexander I and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup.

1936 - Soviet authorities announced the arrest, trial, conviction and execution of eight top Soviet military leaders, heralding the start of a huge purge of the military top brass.

1955 - Eighty people were killed when three cars crashed on the Le Mans racetrack in France and ploughed into the spectators' grandstand.

1963 - Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis resigned.

1970 - Alexander Kerensky, moderate leader of Russia's revolution of February 1917, died. Deposed by the Bolsheviks after a few months, he fled to France and then to the United States.

1975 - The first test pumpings of oil from Britain's North Sea oilfields began. Queen Elizabeth officially opened the first pipeline in November.

1977 - Dutch marines stormed a train in which South Moluccan guerrillas had held more than 50 hostages for 19 days. Six guerrillas and two hostages were killed.

1979 - The American film star John Wayne died aged 72. A huge box office draw, he won only one Oscar, for best actor in ''True Grit''.

1981 - More than 1,000 Iranians were killed when a quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale devastated the southeastern town of Golbaf.

1984 - In Upper Volta (Burkina Faso after August 1984), seven army officers were executed after being convicted of plotting a coup against Thomas Sankara's government.

2000 - Paraguay's fugitive coup leader Lino Oviedo was arrested in Brazil after a six-month manhunt. He was later extradited to Paraguay.

2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed six years after exploding a truck bomb outside a US federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.

2004 - A Bosnian Serb government commission admitted that Serb forces had murdered thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 -- a massacre the government had always denied.

2005 - General Vasco Goncalves, who headed four Portuguese provisional governments after a left-wing revolution in 1974, died aged 83.

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