On This Day — June 11

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on June 11.

• 2013: 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.
• 2012: Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
• 2010: The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
• 2008: 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.
• 2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

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