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NOTE: Today: June 11

On this day... June 11 George Wallace protesting desegregation at the University of Alabama 1594 – Philip II of Spain recognized the sovereign rights of the principalía, local Philippine nobles and chieftains who had converted to Catholicism. 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach directed his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20 in Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his chorale cantata cycle. 1914 – Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War. 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured). Roger Bresnahan (b. 1879) Sheila Heaney (b. 1917) A. Thurairajah (d. 1994) Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (d. 2014) More anniversaries: June 10 June 11 June 12