October 11

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

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

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 - Fran¨ois 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
   * 1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
   * 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 - Llu’s Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia,
     shot at Montju•c 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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