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Birthday October 11, 1758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta |
Birthday October 11, 1844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company |
Birthday October 11, 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader |
Birthday October 11, 1885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952) |
Birthday October 11, 1897 George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins) |
Birthday October 11, 1900 Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates) |
Birthday October 11, 1906 Earl (Dutch) Clark, NFL quarterback (Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit) |
Birthday October 11, 1910 Joseph Alsop, newspaper columnist |
Birthday October 11, 1918 Jerome Robbins, choreographer |
Birthday October 11, 1925 Elmore Leonard is born |
Birthday October 11, 1932 Dottie West, country singer |
Birthday October 11, 1937 Ron Leibman |
Birthday October 11, 1949 Daryl Hall, Rocker |
Birthday October 11, 1975 Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with Born to Run |
History October 11, 1776 Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island |
History October 11, 1776 Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Valcour Island |
History October 11, 1793 Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia |
History October 11, 1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown the Netherlands. |
History October 11, 1809 Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace, Tennessee |
History October 11, 1811 The Juliana the 1st steam-powered ferryboat begins operation. |
History October 11, 1862 Stuart hits Pennsylvania |
History October 11, 1864 slavery abolished in Maryland. |
History October 11, 1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded |
History October 11, 1899 Boer War begins in South Africa |
History October 11, 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I |
History October 11, 1923 A mail car explodes in a train robbery |
History October 11, 1927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP |
History October 11, 1942 United States defeats Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance |
History October 11, 1943 Yanks beat Cards 4 games to 1 in the world series |
History October 11, 1954 Viet Minh take control in the north |
History October 11, 1958 Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA |
History October 11, 1961 Kennedy ponders the Vietnam situation |
History October 11, 1962 21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican II opens in Rome. |
History October 11, 1962 Pope opens Vatican II |
History October 11, 1962 Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council. |
History October 11, 1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins |
History October 11, 1968 Apollo 7 launched 1st of manned Apollo mission |
History October 11, 1968 Apollo 7 launched |
History October 11, 1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days. |
History October 11, 1975 Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham |
History October 11, 1975 Saturday Night Live debuts |
History October 11, 1975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick |
History October 11, 1975 Saturday Night Live premiers |
History October 11, 1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth |
History October 11, 1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days |
History October 11, 1981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series |
History October 11, 1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space. |
History October 11, 1986 Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik |
History October 11, 1987 200 000 gays march for civil rights in Washington. |
History October 11, 2003 Martinez-Zimmer scuffle interrupts ALCS |
History October 11, 2008 Blind driver breaks land-speed record |