October 11
October 11 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 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 ).
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.
1890 - In Washington, DC , the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 - 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.
1929 - JC Penney open Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware , making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1939 - Manhattan Project : US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop an atomic bomb program.
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.
1950 - The 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 - Vietnam 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 manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra , Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1975 - Saturday Night Live George Carlin as the guest host.
1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger , astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American women to perform a space walk .
1986 - Cold War : US 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 between 500,000 and 600,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick 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 movie begins principal photography.
2001 - Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection
2001 - USA PATRIOT Act , passes the U.S. Senate .
2002 - Bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa , Finland . See Myyrmanni bombing .
Births
1582 - Johannes Fleischer , botanist
1738 - Arthur Phillip , British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814 )
1788 - Simon Sechter , Austrian music teacher (d. 1867 )
1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte (d.1881 )
1821 - George Williams , English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905 )
1844 - Henry Heinz , American food manufacturer (d. 1916 )
1863 - Louis Cyr , famous Canadian strongman (d. 1912 )
1872 - Harlan F. Stone , Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946 )
1881 - Hans Kelsen , Austrian legal theorist
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt , American human rights activist, First Lady (d. 1962 )
1885 - François Mauriac , French writer (d. 1970 )
1895 - Jakov Gotovac , Croatian composer (d. 1982 )
1918 - Jerome Robbins , choreographer (d. 1998 )
1919 - Art Blakey , jazz drummer (d. 1990 )
1919 - Jean Vander Pyl , (d. 1999 ) voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon .
1924 - Mal Whitfield , American athlete
1925 - Elmore Leonard , novelist
1928 - Marquis Alfonso de Portago , Grand Prix driver (d. 1957 )
1930 - Sam Johnson , American politician
1932 - Dottie West , country music singer (d. 1991 )
1939 - Maria Bueno , tennis star
1942 - Amitabh Bachchan , actor
1949 - Daryl Hall , musician
1951 - Jean-Jacques Goldman , French pop singer, songwriter
1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos , President of Paraguay
1957 - Dawn French , comedienne
1961 - Steve Young , American football star
1966 - Luke Perry , actor
1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1969 - Ty Murray , rodeo star
1974 - Paul C. Kovacs , Software Engineer
1977 - Ty Wigginton , Baseball player
1981 - Beau Brady , actor
1982 - Jermaine V. Mitchell , Rap musician
1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg , actress
1989 - Michelle Wie , golf prodigy
Deaths
1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
1531 - Huldreich Zwingli , Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484
1779 - Casimir Pulaski , Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745 )
1809 - Meriwether Lewis , American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774 )
1896 - Anton Bruckner , Austrian composer (b. 1824 )
1896 - Edward White Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829 )
1940 - Lluís Companys , Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia , (shot) (b. 1882 )
1961 - Chico Marx , American comedian (b. 1887 )
1963 - Edith Piaf , French singer (b. 1915 )
1963 - Jean Cocteau , French writer (b. 1889 )
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 - Redd Foxx , American comedian, actor (b. 1902 )
1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein , poet (suicide)
1993 - Jess Thomas , American tenor (b. 1927 )
1996 - Lars Ahlfors , Finnish mathematician (b. 1907 )
2000 - Donald Dewar , main author of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1937 )
2004 - Keith Miller , Australian sportsman (b. 1919 )
Holidays
External links
October 10 - October 12 - September 11 - November 11 - more historical anniversaries
