On This Day: June 11th

Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

The first FIFA World Cup held on African soil kicks off in South Africa.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.