OCTOBER 11

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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

External links

Events

★ 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.

★ 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,'' the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

★ 1975 - 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.

★ 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'' 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 Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40

★ 2000 - 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.

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, German chemist, Nobel 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, French author, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)

★ 1895 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)

★ 1897 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (d. 1982)

★ 1899 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)

★ 1905 - Fred Trump, American real estate developer, 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 - Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk

★ 1928 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957)

★ 1929 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress

★ 1930 - Sam Johnson, American politician

★ 1930 - LaVell Edwards, American football coach

★ 1932 - Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)

★ 1936 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)

★ 1937 - Sir 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, American baseball player

★ 1946 - Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast

★ 1946 - Daryl Hall, American musician

★ 1946 - Gary Mallaber, American musician (The Steve Miller Band)

★ 1947 - Al Atkins, English 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 comedian

★ 1959 - Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver

★ 1960 - Curt Ford, American baseball player

★ 1961 - Neil Buchanan, English television presenter

★ 1961 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer

★ 1961 - Steve Young, American football player

★ 1962 - Nicola Bryant, English actress

★ 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress

★ 1963 - Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan

★ 1964 - Michael J. Nelson, American actor/writer

★ 1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor

★ 1965 - Luke Perry, American actor

★ 1966 - Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler

★ 1967 - Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer

★ 1967 - Artie Lange, American actor/comedian

★ 1967 - David Starr, American race car driver

★ 1967 - Tazz, American professional wrestler/commentator

★ 1968 - Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1968 - Jane Krakowski, American actress

★ 1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

★ 1970 - Chidi Ahanotu, American football player

★ 1970 - Andy Marriott, English footballer

★ 1970 - U-God, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)

★ 1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)

★ 1972 - Claudia Black, Australian actress

★ 1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model

★ 1973 - Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer

★ 1973 - Dmitri Young, American 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, American mercenary

★ 1977 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist

★ 1977 - Ty Wigginton, American baseball player

★ 1977 - Desmond Mason, American basketball player

★ 1977 - Matthew Bomer, American actor

★ 1978 - Carlos Alonso Kali, Angolan footballer

★ 1979 - Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress

★ 1979 - Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler

★ 1979 - Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born musician/singer (Cobra Starship, Midtown)

★ 1980 - Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer

★ 1984 - Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer

★ 1984 - Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress

★ 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress

★ 1987 - Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player

★ 1988 - Knut Eirik Kokkin, Norwegian singer (L8R)

★ 1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer

★ 1991 - Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer

★ 1995 - Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este

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)

★ 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)

★ 1996 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)

★ 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)

Holidays and observances

★ Roman Empire - Meditrinalia is held in honor of Meditrina

★ RC Saints - memorial of the blessed Pope John XXIII; Saints Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus; Alexander Sauli;

★ United States - National Coming Out Day

★ United States - General Pulaski Memorial Day

★ French Republican Calendar - Pressoir (Wine-Press) Day, twentieth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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