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What happened in history on this day: October 11?
On October 11 in ...
- 1491 - Death of Blessed Jakob Griesinger, also known as Jakob von Ulm and as Alemannus; glass maker.
- 1531 - Ulrich Zwingli dies in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; influential church reformer in the development of Swiss Protestantism, questioned fasting and the celibacy of priests, published his 67 Artikel, his leadership led to the removal of images from churches, the removal of organs and the replacement of the mass with a communion service.
- 1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India.
- 1776 - Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British.
- 1782 - Birth of Steen Steensen in Blicher, Denmark; poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw).
- 1785 - Bavarian authorities raid house of Herr von Zwack, counselor to Prince von Salm, finding Illuminati documents showing plans for world revolution.
- 1797 - British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands.
- 1809 - Death of Meriwether Lewis at age 35; captain of Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- 1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
- 1821 - Birth of George Williams in England; founder of YMCA.
- 1844 - Birth of Henry John Heinz; founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties).
- 1864 - Slavery is abolished in Maryland, USA.
- 1865 - President Andrew Johnson paroles Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens.
- 1872 - Birth of Harlan Fiske Stone in New Hampshire, USA; Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (1941-46).
- 1881 - Birth of Hans Kelsen in Prague, Austria-Hungary; jurist, developed the "pure theory" of law, professor in Vienna, Cologne, Geneva and Prague, judge on the Austrian Constitutional Court (1920-30), taught at Harvard and University of California at Berkeley, author (Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre 1911, Allgemeine Staatslehre 1925, Reine Rechtslehre 1934, The Law of the United Nations 1950, Was ist Gerechtigkeit 1953).
- 1885 - Birth of François Mauriac in France; novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel Prize 1952).
- 1889 - Death of James Joule at age 70; British physicist (energy, heat, Joule unit).
- 1890 - First 100-yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9.8 secs, Washington DC).
- 1896 - Birth of Roman Jakobson; linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language).
- 1897 - Birth of General Nathan F Twining; US Air Force (Neither Liberty nor Safety).
- 1897 - Birth of George Preston Marshall; NFL team owner (Washington Redskins).
- 1900 - Birth of Cal Hubbard; NFL tackle (New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 1902 - Birth of Leon Belasco in Odessa, Russia; actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen).
- 1906 - Birth of Earl "Dutch" Clark in Colorado, USA; NFL hall of fame quarterback (Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit Detroit).
- 1910 - Birth of Joseph Alsop; political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President).
- 1913 - Philadelphia Athletics beat New York Giants, four games to one in 10th World Series.
- 1914 - Birth of Edward J Day; US Postmaster General (1961).
- 1918 - Birth of Jerome Robbins; choreographer/composer (Tony - West Side Story).
- 1919 - Birth of Art Blakey in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: drummer (Billy Eckstine Band).
- 1923 - German mark falls to 10 billion per pound, 4 billion per dollar.
- 1925 - Birth of Elmore Leonard; American writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk).
- 1925 - Birth of Nancy Guild in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Where Was I?).
- 1925 - New York Giants play first NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0.
- 1926 - Birth of Earle Hyman; actor (The Cosby Show, All My Children).
- 1927 - Lou Gehrig elected Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player.
- 1930 - Birth of Harry Glass in Germany; first East German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956).
- 1930 - Death of Augustus Heaton, artist, American Numismatic Association President.
- 1932 - First political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City.
- 1932 - Birth of Dottie West in Tennessee, USA; country singer ("Here Comes My Baby").
- 1936 - Professor Quiz, first radio quiz show premieres.
- 1936 - Birth of Charles Gordon Fullerton in Rochester, New York, USA; US Air Force/astronaut (STS T-1, T-3, T-5, 3, 51F).
- 1937 - Birth of Ron Leibman in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty and the Beast, Central Park West, Kaz).
- 1940 - French Marshal Pétain announces his intention of collaborating with Germany.
- 1943 - Birth of Gene Watson; country singer ("Heartaches", "Love and Stuff").
- 1943 - New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, 10th World Series win - New York Yankees become first team to win ten World Series.
- 1944 - German Colonel Baron Alexis von Roenne is executed by German authorities for treason. He was the head of German intelligence, and had convinced Adolf Hitler that the Allied landing would be in the Pas de Calais of France.
- 1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek versus Mao Tse-Tung.
- 1946 - Birth of Daryl Franklin Hohl AKA Daryl Hall in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA; singer/songwriter (Hall and Oates - "Sara Smile").
- 1946 - Birth of Felton Perry; actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death).
- 1946 - Birth of Sawao Kato in Japan; gymnast (Olympic-gold-1968, 1972, 1976).
- 1948 - Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, four games to two in 45th World Series.
- 1950 - Birth of Catlin Adams in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Ms Loomis - Square Pegs).
- 1952 - First ever hockey telecast in Canada, as CBFT Television in Montreal carries the Montreal Canadiens versus Detroit Red Wings game, in French.
- 1953 - Birth of David Morse in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA; actor (St. Elsewhere, House, Inside Moves, Hack).
- 1956 - Birth of Stephen Spinella; actor (24, Education of Max Bickford.
- 1957 - US Air Force Colonel Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn is killed in the crash of a Twin Beech plane in the Philippines.
- 1958 - Second US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back.
- 1959 - Bert Bell, NFL hall of famer, dies at age 64.
- 1960 - ABC TV debuts The Bugs Bunny Show.
- 1961 - NBC premieres The Bob Newhart Show 30-minute variety TV show.
- 1961 - US Air Force Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m.
- 1961 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film Greyfriars Bobby to theaters in the USA. The film is based on the book by Eleanor Atkinson.
- 1962 - Second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII.
- 1962 - Birth of Joan Cusack in Evanston, Illinois, USA; comedienne (Saturday Night Live, Local Flavour, Peep and the Big Wide World).
- 1962 - Birth of Leslie Landon in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Etta Plum - Little House on the Prairie).
- 1964 - Birth of Michael J. Nelson; comedy writer and TV host (Mystery Science Theatre 3000).
- 1965 - Birth of Luke Perry in Mansfield, Ohio, USA; actor (Windfall, Oz, Dillon - Beverly Hills 90210).
- 1965 - Birth of Sean Patrick Flanery; actor (Dead Zone, Young Indiana Jones).
- 1968 - Birth of Jane Krakowski; actress (Ally McBeal, 30 Rock).
- 1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) make 163 orbits of Earth in 260 hours.
- 1968 - Billy Martin is named manager of the Minnesota Twins.
- 1968 - Panama revolts.
- 1969 - Birth of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands.
- 1969 - Soyuz 6 launched.
- 1970 - Death of Phil Spitalny at age 79 of cancer; bandleader (Hour of Charm radio show (1935-46).
- 1972 - Prison uprising at Washington DC jail.
- 1972 - The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game five to win the National League Championship Series.
- 1973 - Israeli tanks drive toward the Syrian capital. Egypt responds by leaving its defensive positions in the Sinai, to attack Israeli positions and take pressure off the Syrian front. As they leave the safety of anti-air cover, Israeli jets knock them out.
- 1975 - Debut of late-night comedy TV show Saturday Night Live, with George Carlin as the first guest host.
- 1975 - Birth of Kellie Martin; actress (Life Goes On).
- 1975 - New York Islanders' Bryan Trottier's first career hat trick.
- 1976 - Birth of Emily Deschanel; actress (Bones).
- 1976 - Death of Connee Boswell at age 68 of cancer; singer (Boswell Sisters, Pete Kelly's Blues TV show (1959)).
- 1977 - Dr Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money), dies at age 66.
- 1977 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth.
- 1978 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama.
- 1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan.
- 1979 - Birth of Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan singer (Cobra Starship).
- 1980 - Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days.
- 1981 - LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yards).
- 1981 - New York Yankees beat Milwaukee Brewers 7-3 and win only Eastern Championship Series.
- 1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, is raised at Portsmouth, England.
- 1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones in the US go out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, are switched over to direct-dial.
- 1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 1984 - US Vice Presidential candidate debate: Geraldine Ferraro (Democrat) and George Bush (Republican).
- 1985 - Birth of Michelle Trachtenberg; actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, All My Children).
- 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan bans importation of South African gold bullion coins.
- 1985 - In Guatemala, a magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurs.
- 1986 - Norm Cash, first baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at age 51.
- 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe (the talks break down in failure).
- 1987 - 200,000 march in second National March on Washington, D.C. for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
- 1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum.
- 1990 - Death of Douglas Edwards at age 73 of cancer; CBS-TV news anchor.
- 1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature.
- 1990 - Oil hits a record US$40.42 per barrel.
- 1991 - At a government auction near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Roger Judski buys a 1969 Corvette with ZL-1 engine, for US$300,000. This is the only documented Corvette ZL-1 in existence, one of two believed to have been built.
- 1991 - Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59.
- 1991 - In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR.
- 1991 - The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful".
- 1991 - Death of Redd Foxx at age 68 of a heart attack on the set of TV show The Royal Family; actor/comedian (Sanford and Son TV show).
- 1997 - The mixed martial arts organisation PRIDE Fighting Championships holds its inaugural event at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event Rickson Gracie defeats Nobuhiko Takada by armbar.
- 1998 - In Frankfurt am Main, Germany, writer Martin Walser receives the Peace Prize given by the German Bookdealers Association (Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels).
- 1998 - Edith Stein is canonized a saint by Pope John-Paul II.
- 1998 - Death of Richard Denning at age 84 following cardiac arrest; actor (Mr. and Mrs. North radio and TV show, My Favorite Husband radio show, Governor - Hawaii Five-0 TV show).
- 2000 - 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky, USA.
- 2001 - Death of Billy Maxted at age 84; pianist, songwriter, arranger (Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller's Orchestra).
- 2002 - A lone bomber explodes a home-made bomb in the Myyrmanni shopping mall north of Helsinki, Finland.
- 2006 - New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle is killed (born 1972), along with his flight instructor, when his plane crashes into a building in New York City's Upper East Side.
- 2007 - A small private plane crashes into a house in the Fontibon neighborhood near the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing five on board and two in the house.
- 2008 - Russia test-fires an intercontinental ballistic missile a distance of 11,500km, a new record for a missile fired from a submarine.
- 2017 - Death of Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (born 1926).
- 2019 - Death of Alexei Leonov at age 85; Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, first man to walk in space.
- 2022 - Death of Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury at age 96 at home in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Gaslight film (1944), Aunt Adelaide - Nanny McPhee film (2005), Blithe Spirit play (2009), The Vest Man play (2012), Sibyl Vane - The Picture of Dorian Gray film (1945), The Manchurian Candidate film (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks film (1971), Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street film (1979), Jessica Fletcher - Murder, She Wrote TV show, Mame film (1966)), voice actor (Mrs. Pots - Beauty and the Beast film (1991)), knighted (2014), Oscar award winner (2013), Tony award winner.
- 2023 - Death of Rudolph Isley at age 84 at home in Chicago, Illinois, USA; founding member of the Isley Brothers ("Shout" song, "It's Your Thing" song).
- 2023 - Death of Phyllis Coates at age 96 in Woodland Hills, California; actor (Lois Lane - Adventures of Superman TV show (1952-1953)).
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