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October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 81 days remaining in the year on this date.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
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 States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1776 - American Revolution : Battle of Valcour Island - On Lake Champlain 15 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 ' boat, the Juliana , begins operation as the first steam -powered ferry (service between New York, New York , and Hoboken, New Jersey ).
1852 - The University of Sydney , Australia 's oldest university , is inaugurated in Sydney .
1862 - American Civil War : In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam , Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania , during a raid into the north.
1864 - Campina Grande , Brazil was established as a city .
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 becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport ), St. Louis, Missouri .
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.
1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt receives letter from Einstein about atom bomb.
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 - Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons
1968 - Apollo program : NASA launches Apollo 7 ,astronauts Wally Schirra , Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1975 - The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.
1982 - The Mary Rose , a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth.
1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger , astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk .
1986 - Cold War : U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík , 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 an estimated 200,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt .
1998 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo , killing 40
1999 - The Lord of the Rings movies2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92 ) is flown.
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 - A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa , Finland kills seven.
2006 - A small plane owned and piloted by New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle , crashes into a high-rise apartment block in Manhattan , New York City , damaging several apartments and sending fiery debris crashing to the street. Lidle and his instructor are killed.
Births 1616 - Andreas Gryphius , German writer (d. 1664 )
1661 - Melchior de Polignac , French diplomat (d. 1742 )
1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730 )
1675 - Samuel Clarke , English philosopher (d. 1729 )
1738 - Arthur Phillip , Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814 )
1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers , German astronomer (d. 1840 )
1786 - Stevenson Archer , American Congressman (d. 1848 )
1788 - Simon Sechter , Austrian music teacher (d. 1867 )
1814 - Jean Baptiste Lamy , first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888 )
1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte , Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881 )
1821 - George Williams , English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905 )
1844 - Henry Heinz , American food manufacturer (d. 1916 )
1871 - Johan Oscar Smith , Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (d.1943 )
1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone , 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946 )
1881 - Hans Kelsen , Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973 )
1884 - Friedrich Bergius , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949 )
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt , First Lady of the United States (d. 1962 )
1884 - Sig Ruman , German-American actor (d. 1967 )
1885 - François Mauriac , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970 )
1895 - Jakov Gotovac , Croatian composer (d. 1982 )
1897 - Nathan Twining , USAF general (d. 1982 )
1899 - Eddie Dyer , baseball player (d. 1964 )
1905 - Fred Trump , real estate developer and father of Donald Trump (d. 1999 )
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
1926 - Thich Nhat Hanh , religious leader
1928 - Alfonso de Portago , Spanish race car driver (d. 1957 )
1929 - Liselotte Pulver , Swiss actress
1930 - Sam Johnson , American politician
1930 - LaVell Edwards , Former college football coach
1932 - Dottie West , American singer (d. 1991 )
1936 - Billy Higgins , American jazz drummer (d. 2001 )
1937 - Bobby Charlton , English footballer
1937 - R. H. W. Dillard , American poet
1939 - Maria Bueno , Brazilian tennis player
1939 - Austin Currie , Northern Irish politician
1941 - Lester Bowie , American jazz trumpet player (d. 1999 )
1942 - Amitabh Bachchan , Indian actor
1943 - John Nettles , English actor
1944 - Mike Fiore , baseball player
1946 - Sawao Kato , Japanese gymnast
1946 - Daryl Hall , American musician
1946 - Gary Mallaber , American musician (The Steve Miller Band )
1947 - Al Atkins , British musician, vocalist
1947 - Lucas Papademos , Greek economist, Vice President of the European Central Bank
1951 - Jean-Jacques Goldman , French singer/songwriter
1953 - David Morse , American actor
1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos , President of Paraguay
1957 - Dawn French , Welsh comedienne
1960 - Curt Ford , baseball player
1961 - Neil Buchanan , English television presenter
1961 - Amr Diab , Egyptian pop-star
1961 - Steve Young , NFL Player
1962 - Nicola Bryant , British actress
1962 - Joan Cusack , American actress
1964 - Michael J. Nelson , American actor/writer
1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery , American actor
1965 - Luke Perry , American actor
1967 - David Starr , American race car driver
1967 - Tazz , American professional wrestler/commentator
1967 - Tony Chimel , American professional wrestling announcer
1967 - Artie Lange , American actor/comedian
1968 - Claude Lapointe , National Hockey League player
1968 - Jane Krakowski , American actress
1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1970 - Andy Marriott , English footballer
1971 - Petra Haden , American musician (The Rentals )
1972 - Robert Hefley , American Nobody
1972 - Claudia Black , Australian actress
1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro , Actor/Model
1973 - Steven Pressley , Scottish footballer
1973 - Dmitri Young , baseball player
1973 - Niki Xanthou , Greek long jumper
1974 - Jason Arnott , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Terje Haakonsen , Norwegian snowboarder
1976 - Emily Deschanel , American actress
1976 - Brent Bennett , Brent L. Bennett Jr. American Mercenary
1977 - Claudia Palacios , Colombian television journalist
1977 - Ty Wigginton , American baseball player
1977 - Desmond Mason , American basketball player
1978 - Carlos Alonso Kali , Angolan footballer
1979 - Bae Doona , South Korean model and actress
1979 - Andy Douglas , American professional wrestler
1979 - Gabe Saporta , Musician/Singer (Cobra Starship ,Midtown )
1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg , American actress
1987 - Mike Conley, Jr. , Ohio State Basketball star
1988 - Knut Eirik Kokkin , Norwegian singer (L8R )
1989 - Michelle Wie , American golfer
1991 - Chauncey Matthews , American Juniors singer
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 (b. 1774 )
1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann , Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724 )
1821 - John Ross Key , American judge and lawyer (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 - Lluís 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 )
1965 - Walther Stampfli , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884 )
1976 - Alfredo Bracchi , Italian author (b. 1897 )
1977 - MacKinlay Kantor , American author (b. 1904 )
1988 - Bonita Granville , American actress (b. 1923 )
1989 - M. King Hubbert , American geophysicist (b. 1904 )
1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein , American underground 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 )
1996 - Joe Morris , C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b.1913 )
2000 - Donald Dewar , First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937 )
2002 - Dina Pathak , Indian Actress (b. 1922 )
2004 - Keith Miller , Australian sportsman (b. 1919 )
2005 - Edward Szczepanik , Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915 )
2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee , Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917 )
2006 - Cory Lidle , American baseball pitcher (b. 1972 )
2006 - Howard Kerzner , Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964 )
2006 - Benito Martínez , Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person (b. ?1880 )
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