TODAY IN HISTORY - June 11

Reuters

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 11:

1903 - King Alexander I and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup.

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.

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".

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 U.S. federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.

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

2008 - Former Vietnam Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, a major force behind economic reforms started in the late 1980s, died.

2012 - Earthquake strikes Afghanistan's Baghlan province.

2015 - State TV in Greece returns to airwaves two-years after austerity shutdown.