October 11th Events |
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| October 11th, 2002 (October 11 2002) | Event | A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. | |
| October 11th, 2001 (October 11 2001) | Event | The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | |
| October 11th, 2000 (October 11 2000) | Event | The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown. | |
| October 11th, 1998 (October 11 1998) | Event | A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people. | |
| October 11th, 1986 (October 11 1986) | Event | Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe. G | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| October 11th, 1984 (October 11 1984) | Event | Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. | |
| October 11th, 1982 (October 11 1982) | Event | The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth. | |
| October 11th, 1976 (October 11 1976) | Event | George Washington s appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 was approved by President Gerald R. Ford. | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| October 11th, 1975 (October 11 1975) | Event | The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests. | George Carlin Quotes |
| October 11th, 1968 (October 11 1968) | Event | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. | |
| October 11th, 1967 (October 11 1967) | Event | Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons | |
| October 11th, 1962 (October 11 1962) | Event | Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. | |
| October 11th, 1958 (October 11 1958) | Event | Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). | |
| October 11th, 1954 (October 11 1954) | Event | First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam. | |
| October 11th, 1950 (October 11 1950) | Event | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS | |
| October 11th, 1944 (October 11 1944) | Event | Tuvinian People s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R | |
| October 11th, 1942 (October 11 1942) | Event | World War II: Battle of Cape EsperanceOn the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island. | |
| October 11th, 1941 (October 11 1941) | Event | Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. | |
| October 11th, 1930 (October 11 1930) | Event | Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year. | |
| October 11th, 1929 (October 11 1929) | Event | JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. | |
| October 11th, 1918 (October 11 1918) | Event | Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean | |
| October 11th, 1910 (October 11 1910) | Event | 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. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 11th, 1906 (October 11 1906) | Event | San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools. | |
| October 11th, 1899 (October 11 1899) | Event | Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. The Western League was renamed the American League. | |
| October 11th, 1890 (October 11 1890) | Event | In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded. | |
| October 11th, 1865 (October 11 1865) | Event | Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. | |
| October 11th, 1864 (October 11 1864) | Event | Campina Grande, Brazil was established as a city. | |
| October 11th, 1862 (October 11 1862) | Event | 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. | |
| October 11th, 1852 (October 11 1852) | Event | The University of Sydney, Australia s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. | |
| October 11th, 1811 (October 11 1811) | Event | Inventor John Stevens boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). | Julian Quotes |
| October 11th, 1809 (October 11 1809) | Event | Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder s Stand. | |
| October 11th, 1776 (October 11 1776) | Event | American Revolution: Battle of Valcour IslandOn Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City. | |
| October 11th, 1634 (October 11 1634) | Event | the Burchardi flood - "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. | |
| October 11th, 1614 (October 11 1614) | Event | Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. | |
| October 11th, 1582 (October 11 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, often causing widespread panic to the natives. | |
| October 11th, 1531 (October 11 1531) | Event | Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland. | |
