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Happy birthday to...

1. me.
2. Jacques Yves-Cousteau.
3. Gene Wilder.
4. the German composer Richard Strauss.
5. Frank Beard of ZZ Top.
6. Renée Vivien, the psycho British/French poet.
7. Shia LaBeouf.

Also, June 11 is when…

1. the Battle of Jargeau began during the Hundred Years’ War.
2. King Henry VIII married his first wife: the barren Catherine of Aragon.
3. Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin became the first to successfully escape Alcatraz.
4. a Vietnamese Buddhist monk doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire in protest of the lack of freedom in South Vietnam.

Oh Wikipedia, you’re the best!