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October 11
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 284th day of the year (285th in
leap years). There are 81 days remaining.
Events
*
1582 - Due to the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in
Italy,
Poland,
Portugal and
Spain.
*
1614 -
Adriaen Block and 12
Amsterdam merchants petition the
Estates-General of the Netherlands States General for exclusive trading rights in the
New Netherland colony.
*
1776 -
American Revolution:
Battle of Valcour Island - On
Lake Champlain 15
United States American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of
New York City.
*
1809 - Along the
Natchez Trace in
Tennessee, explorer
Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
*
1811 - Inventor
John Stevens (inventor) John Stevens' boat, the ''Juliana'', begins operation as the first
steam-powered
ferry (service between
New York, New York, and
Hoboken, New Jersey).
*
1850 - The
University of Sydney is established in
Sydney,
Australia, with a staff of three
professors and 24
students as the nation's oldest
university.
*
1862 -
American Civil War: In the aftermath of the
Battle of Antietam,
Confederate States of America Confederate General
J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
*
1865 -
Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in
Jamaica, starting the
Morant Bay rebellion.
*
1890 - In
Washington, DC, the
Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
*
1899 -
Second Boer War begins: In
South Africa, a war between the
United Kingdom and the
Boers of the
Transvaal and
Orange Free State erupts.
*
1906 -
San Francisco public school board sparks
United States diplomatic crisis with
Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
*
1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt goes on his first airplane ride, in St Louis, with Arch Hoxsey as his pilot. Roosevelt almost falls out of the airplane while waving to the crowd below and Hoxsey pulls him back. This however made Roosevelt the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
*
1929 -
JC Penney opens store #1252 in
Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48
U.S. states.
*
1930 -
Collingwood Football Club in
Melbourne, Australia, won the premiership (football competition) for the fourth consecutive year.
*
1942 -
World War II:
Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of
Guadalcanal,
United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a
Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
*
1944 -
Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly
Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
*
1950 - The U.S.
Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast
television in color, to
CBS (
RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
*
1954 -
First Indochina War: The
Viet Minh take control of
North Vietnam.
*
1958 -
Pioneer program:
NASA launches the lunar probe
Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to
Earth and burns up).
*
1962 -
Second Vatican Council:
Pope John XXIII convenes the first
ecumenical council of the
Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
*
1967 -
Afghanistan Afghan Heads of Government of Afghanistan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons
*
1968 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches ''
Apollo 7,'' the first successful manned Apollo mission, with
astronauts
Wally Schirra,
Donn F. Eisele and
Walter Cunningham aboard.
*
1975 - ''
Saturday Night Live'' debuts with
George Carlin as the guest host.
*
1982 - The
Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18th 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near to Portsmouth.
*
1984 - Aboard the
Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', astronaut
Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first
United States American woman to perform a
space walk.
*
1986 -
Cold War:
U.S. President
Ronald Reagan and
USSR Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev Reykjavik Summit meet in
ReykjavÃk,
Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate
missile arsenals in
Europe.
*
1987 -
March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights attracts between 500,000 and 600,000 people to protest the ''
Bowers v. Hardwick'' decision and the U.S. government's handling of the
AIDS epidemic; first public display of the
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
*
1998 - A
Congo Air Lines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40
*
1999 -
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ''The Lord of the Rings'' movies begin principal photography.
*
2001 - The
Polaroid Corporation files for federal
bankruptcy protection.
*
2002 - A
bomb attack in a shopping mall in
Vantaa,
Finland. See
Myyrmanni bombing.
Births
*
1616 -
Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d.
1664)
*
1661 -
Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d.
1742)
*
1671 - King
Frederick IV of Denmark (d.
1730)
*
1675 -
Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d.
1729)
*
1738 -
Arthur Phillip, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d.
1814)
*
1758 -
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d.
1840)
*
1788 -
Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d.
1867)
*
1815 -
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer and politician (d.
1881)
*
1821 -
George Williams (YMCA) George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d.
1905)
*
1844 -
Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d.
1916)
*
1863 -
Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (d.
1912)
*
1872 -
Harlan Fiske Stone Harlan F. Stone,
United States Supreme Court/Chief Justice Chief Justice of the United States (d.
1946)
*
1881 -
Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist
*
1884 -
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1949)
* 1884 -
Eleanor Roosevelt,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1962)
*
1885 -
Francois Mauriac François Mauriac, French writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1970)
*
1895 -
Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d.
1982)
*
1918 -
Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (d.
1998)
*
1919 -
Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d.
1990)
* 1919 -
Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d.
1999)
*
1924 -
Mal Whitfield, American athlete
*
1925 -
Elmore Leonard, American novelist
*
1926 -
Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales
*
1928 -
Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d.
1957)
*
1930 -
Sam Johnson, American politician
*
1932 -
Dottie West, American singer (d.
1991)
*
1937 -
Bobby Charlton, English former professional footballer
*
1939 -
Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
* 1939 -
Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician
*
1942 -
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, anchor and producer
*
1943 -
John Nettles, English actor
*
1946 -
Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
*
1949 -
Daryl Hall, American musician
*
1951 -
Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer and songwriter
*
1953 -
David Morse, American actor
*
1956 -
Nicanor Duarte Frutos,
President of Paraguay
*
1957 -
Dawn French, Welsh comedienne
*
1961 -
Amr Diab, Egyptian pop-star
*
1962 -
Nicola Bryant, British actress
* 1962 -
Joan Cusack, American actress and comedienne
*
1964 -
Michael J. Nelson, American actor/writer on
Mystery Science Theater 3000
*
1965 -
Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
*
1966 -
Luke Perry, American actor
*
1969 -
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
*
1970 -
U-God, American rapper
*
1972 -
Claudia Black, Australian actress
*
1973 -
Dmitri Young, baseball player
*
1974 -
Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
*
1977 -
Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
* 1977 -
Ty Wigginton, baseball player
*
1985 -
Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
*
1989 -
Michelle Wie, American golfer
*
1990 -
David Wong. American pianist
Deaths
*
1188 -
Robert I of Dreux, son of
Louis VI of France
*
1303 -
Pope Boniface VIII
*
1347 -
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1282)
*
1424 -
Jan Zizka, leader of the
Hussites (b.
1370)
*
1531 -
Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b.
1484)
*
1611 -
John Cowell, English jurist (b.
1554)
*
1705 -
Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b.
1663)
*
1708 -
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b.
1651)
*
1721 -
Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b.
1636)
*
1725 -
Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b.
1639)
*
1779 -
Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b.
1745)
*
1809 -
Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b.
1774)
*
1811 -
Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b.
1724)
*
1821 -
John Ross Key commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of
Francis Scott Key (b.
1754)
*
1852 -
Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b.
1823)
*
1889 -
James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b.
1818)
*
1896 -
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b.
1824)
* 1896 -
Edward White Benson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1829)
*
1935 -
Steele Rudd, Australian author (b.
1868)
*
1940 -
Lluis Companys LluÃs Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b.
1882)
* 1940 -
Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b.
1860)
*
1961 -
Chico Marx, American comedian (b.
1887)
*
1963 -
Jean Cocteau, French writer (b.
1889)
* 1963 -
Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b.
1915)
*
1965 -
Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b.
1895)
*
1976 -
Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b.
1897)
*
1977 -
MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b.
1904)
*
1989 -
M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b.
1904)
*
1991 -
Steven Jesse Bernstein, poet (suicide) (b.
1950)
* 1991 -
Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b.
1922)
*
1993 -
Jess Thomas, American tenor (b.
1927)
*
1996 -
Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b.
1907)
*
2000 -
Donald Dewar, First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b.
1937)
*
2004 -
Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b.
1919)
*
2005 -
Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b.
1915)
Holidays
*
Roman Empire -
Meditrinalia is held in honor of
Meditrina
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints - memorial of the blessed
Pope John XXIII
*
United States -
National Coming Out Day (not a
Federal government of the United States federal holiday)
*
United States - in
Indiana:General
Kazimierz Pulaski Pulaski Memorial Day
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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October 10 -
October 12 -
September 11 -
November 11 – more
historical anniversaries
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bs:11. oktobar
ca:11 d'octubre
ceb:Oktubre 11
cv:Юпа, 11
co:11 d'uttrovi
cs:11. Å™Ãjen
cy:11 Hydref
da:11. oktober
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fur:11 di Novembar
ga:11 Deireadh Fómhair
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