Notable Historical Events on October 11th
October 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
732 |
Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors |
1138 |
A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. |
1521 |
Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith" |
1531 |
Battle at Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic kantons beat protestant forces of Zurich |
1531 |
Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed at the Battle at Kappel |
1540 |
Emperor Karel names his son Philip, Duke of Milan |
1573 |
Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy |
1614 |
Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. |
1634 |
the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. |
1674 |
Pierre Corneille's "Surena" premieres in Paris |
1687 |
Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty |
1698 |
France, England & Netherlands sign 1st Extermination treaty |
1726 |
Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England |
1737 |
Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India |
1746 |
Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies |
1776 |
Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British |
1797 |
Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): English navy defeats Dutch fleet |
1809 |
Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. |
1811 |
The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation |
1852 |
The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. |
1861 |
Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek) |
1863 |
Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee |
1864 |
Slavery abolished in Maryland |
1864 |
Campina Grande, Brazil was established as a city. |
1865 |
President Andrew Johnson paroles Confederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens |
1865 |
Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. |
1868 |
Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine |
1871 |
Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed |
1873 |
Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto |
1881 |
David Houston patents roll film for cameras |
1887 |
A Miles patents elevator |
1890 |
1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC) |
1890 |
Daughters of American Revolution founded |
1895 |
Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians |
1899 |
South African Boers declare war on Great Britain |
1902 |
8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY |
1902 |
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia |
1902 |
Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament |
1906 |
White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game |
1906 |
San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis |
1911 |
Ty Cobb (AL) & Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto |
1913 |
Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series |
1914 |
German troops occupy Gent |
1915 |
Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins |
1915 |
Despite international protest, Edith Cavell, and English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners |
1918 |
Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean |
1919 |
First transcontinental air race ends |
1922 |
First woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson) |
1922 |
Turkey & Greece sign cease fire |
1923 |
Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game |
1923 |
German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $ |
1925 |
Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism |
1925 |
NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0 |
1927 |
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1929 |
Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle" premieres in London |
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 VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year. |
1931 |
100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front" |
1932 |
1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC |
1932 |
Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party |
1936 |
"Professor Quiz" first radio quiz show premieres |
1939 |
Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb |
1939 |
Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again |
1939 |
Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
NAACP organized Legal Defense & Education Fund |
1941 |
1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front |
1942 |
-Oct 12] Sea battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal |
1943 |
NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series |
1944 |
Allies bomb sea wall at Veere |
1944 |
Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R |
1944 |
"Laura", starring Gene Tierney, is released |
1945 |
Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Zedong |
1945 |
JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere) |
1947 |
Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR |
1948 |
"Love Life" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 252 performances |
1948 |
"Where's Chartev?" opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances |
1948 |
Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series |
1950 |
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS |
1954 |
"On Your Toes" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 64 performances |
1954 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam |
1955 |
All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina |
1955 |
Persia signs Pact of Baghdad |
1956 |
1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day |
1956 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1956 |
AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners |
1958 |
"Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances |
1958 |
2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back |
1959 |
KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die) |
1960 |
Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers |
1961 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1962 |
1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show |
1962 |
2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII |
1964 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open |
1967 |
World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, & Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox |
1967 |
Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon) |
1968 |
Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours |
1968 |
Billy Martin named manager of Twins |
1968 |
Panama revolts |
1969 |
-28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod |
1969 |
Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3 |
1969 |
Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days |
1969 |
Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast |
1971 |
60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2) |
1971 |
Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times |
1971 |
Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show |
1971 |
Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam |
1972 |
Panama adopts constitution |
1972 |
Prison uprising at Washington DC jail |
1972 |
Reads beat Pirates in NLCS |
1973 |
Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant |
1974 |
A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract |
1975 |
"Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin |
1975 |
Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick |
1975 |
Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host |
1976 |
10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins |
1976 |
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1977 |
Soyuz 25 returns to Earth |
1978 |
Aristides Royo elected president of Panama |
1978 |
Belgium government of Tindemans resigns |
1978 |
Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th |
1979 |
"Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances |
1979 |
German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hubner |
1979 |
Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan |
1980 |
Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days |
1980 |
Dallas Mavericks first game at Reunion Arena, beat San Antonio 103-92 |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1981 |
Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS |
1981 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
1981 |
LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds) |
1981 |
Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum |
1981 |
Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series |
1982 |
16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skagg |
1982 |
English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England |
1982 |
Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire |
1983 |
Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial |
1984 |
1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan) |
1984 |
August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC |
1984 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-208 |
1984 |
VP candidates' debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George H W Bush (R) |
1985 |
Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
1985 |
President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands |
1985 |
US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists |
1986 |
Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland |
1987 |
200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington |
1990 |
"Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances |
1990 |
Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum |
1990 |
Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature |
1990 |
Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel |
1990 |
Libya's Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated |
1990 |
UK Foreign Secretary Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdrawal from Kuwait |
1991 |
Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her |
1991 |
Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59 |
1991 |
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute |
1992 |
1First 3-way US presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot) |
1992 |
Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball) |
1992 |
Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff |
1993 |
Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack |
1993 |
US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti |
1994 |
Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands |
1995 |
John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches |
1995 |
O J Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline |
1996 |
Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million |
1997 |
Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games) |
1998 |
A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people. |
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. |
2006 |
"30 Rock", starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan, debuts on NBC |
2012 |
A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army |
2012 |
A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung |
2012 |
Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature |
2013 |
10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan |
2013 |
27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily |
2013 |
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize |
2016 |
Obama declares major disaster in North Carolina from Hurricane Matthew |
2016 |
Samsung halts Galaxy Note 7 sales over fire concerns, tells users to switch off |
2017 |
Catalan leader signs document declaring independence from Spain |
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