October 11

October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in Leap years). There are 81 days remaining.

Events

• 1643 - Battle of Newbury[?], in the English Civil War
• 1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland
• 1890 - Daughters of the American Revolution is founded
• 1899 - Boer War begins
• 1945 - Chinese Civil War begins
• 1950 - The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
• 1954 - The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam
• 1962 - The opening of the Second Vatican Council
• 1968 - Apollo 7 launched
• 1984 - Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb

Births

• 1582 - Johannes Fleischer[?], botanist
• 1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1844 - Henry Heinz[?], food manufacturer (+ 1916)
• 1872 - Harlan F. Stone[?], Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1946)
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American human rights activist, First Lady (+ 1962)
• 1885 - François Mauriac, writer (+ 1970)
• 1918 - Jerome Robbins[?], choreographer (+ 1998)
• 1919 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (+ 1990)
• 1925 - Elmore Leonard[?], novelist
• 1928 - Marquis Alfonso de Portago[?], Grand Prix driver (+ 1957)
• 1932 - Dottie West[?], country music singer (+ 1991)
• 1939 - Maria Bueno[?], tennis star
• 1949 - Daryl Hall[?], musician
• 1961 - Steve Young[?], American football star
• 1966 - Luke Perry, actor
• 1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
• 1969 - Ty Murray[?], rodeo star
• 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, actress

Deaths

• 1531 - Huldreich Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader
• 1779 - Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence
• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, explorer
• 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
• 1896 - Edward White Benson, British archbishop
• 1940 - Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, shot at Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona.
• 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian
• 1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer
• 1963 - Jean Cocteau, writer
• 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor[?], author
• 1985 - Orson Welles, American movie director
• 1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian, actor
• 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician
• 2000 - Donald Dewar, main author of the Scotland Act[?] and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament

Holidays

• Roman Empire - Meditrinalia[?] is held in honor of Meditrina

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