October 11

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 11. From 1900 until now. October 11 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951) and Marc-Laurent Turpin (1968). Several movies were released around October 11 over the years, such as The Great Dictator in 1940 directed by Charles Chaplin and Le cercle rouge in 1970 directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
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2018 At least 41 people are killed after a river bursts its bank in Bududa, Uganda. Many more are injured and dozens are displaced. (BBC)
2017 Syrian Civil War: Three suicide bombers attack a police command center in Damascus, killing two people and injuring six others. (Reuters)The Sun reports that the CIA informed UK intelligence agencies that British-born ISIL activist and recruiter Sally Jones was killed in a U.S. drone strike in June along with her 12-year-old son while they were fleeing Raqqa in Syria. (The Guardian)
2016 A gunman, reportedly wearing an Afghan police uniform, kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens more in the Shiite Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on the beginning of Ashura. Police kill the attacker. (UPI), (Reuters)
2015 Israeli traffic police stop a Palestinian woman transporting a small gas canister within Israeli territory near Jerusalem. She detonates the gas canister, lightly wounding a police officer and critically wounding herself. (AP via Houston Chronicle) (AFP via NDTV)
2014 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Turkey agrees to allow the training of 2,000 Syrian opposition forces on its soil as Islamic State militants approach to within 1 mile of the centre of the border city of Kobani. (Wall Street Journal)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is accused by Human Rights Watch of killing at least 190 villagers in pro-government areas and kidnapping hundreds more. (Washington Post)
2012 A gunman kills Qassem M. Aqlan, the Yemeni chief of security employed at the U.S. embassy in the capital, Sana'a. (BBC)
2011 China follows Russian admonishment of the Syrian government while the opposition Syrian National Council gains support in Egypt and is recognized by Libya. (CNN)
2010 A Telugu Desam leader is murdered in broad daylight in a restaurant near Srikantam circle in Anantapur, India. (Deccan Chronicle)
2009 Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a suspect wanted for the 1968 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 281, is captured after more than 40 years. (The Associated Press) (CNN)
2008 Former South African President Thabo Mbeki will mediate between the Movement for Democratic Change and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government after Mugabe takes control of ministries that command the military and the police, an action that allegedly violates the power-sharing agreement reached last month. (AFP via Yahoo News)
2007 The Prime Minister of Australia John Howard proposes a constitutional referendum recognising indigenous Australians in the Australian constitution, if he is reelected. (BBC)
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.
2005 Conflict in Iraq: Insurgent suicide bomb attacks leave over 30 people dead in Talafar, North West Iraq. (BBC)
2004 The Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry requests that all non-Muslims currently in Saudi Arabia refrain from eating, drinking or smoking in public. "Authorities will take deterrent measures such as terminating work contracts of, and deporting, violators"
2003 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops pull back in Gaza. Israel will continue to demolish tunnels. The Israeli army states it discovers three tunnels in the camp, but no weapons have been found. A Palestinian teenager is shot dead and up to 10 homes were demolished and water and electricity facilities were hit. Palestinian militants were seeking to smuggle from Egypt shoulder-fired missiles that could be used against tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets.
2002 U.S. plan to invade Iraq: The United States Senate voted to give war powers to President George W. Bush as part of the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iraq.
2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2000 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky, USA.
1998 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament
1997 Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1995 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
1994 Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
1993 Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
1992 1st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
1990 Miser opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 93 performances
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1986 Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1985 US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
1984 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
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.
1982 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg
1981 Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
1980 Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
1979 Most Happy Fella opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
1978 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth.
1976 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
1975 Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
1974 The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.
1973 Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
1972 Panama adopts constitution
1971 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1970 Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) make 163 orbits of Earth in 260 hours.
1967 World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
1966 France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1961 US Air Force Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m.
1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 Goldilocks opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
1957 US Air Force Colonel Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn is killed in the crash of a Twin Beech plane in the Philippines.
1956 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
1955 All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
1954 On Your Toes opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 64 performances
1950 Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1948 Love Life opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 252 performances
1947 Brazil and Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
1945 JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
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.
1942 World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance : On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1941 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
1936 Professor Quiz, first radio quiz show premieres.
1932 Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party
1931 100,000 extreme-right Germans form Harzburger Front
1929 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1927 Lou Gehrig elected Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player.
1925 Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
1923 Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
1922 1st woman FBI special investigator appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1918 Puerto Rico earthquake: The city of Mayagüez and adjacent towns are nearly destroyed by a 7.5 earthquake and a tsunami.
1915 Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1914 German troops occupy Gent
1913 Philadelphia Athletics beat New York Giants, four games to one in 10th World Series.
1911 Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1906 White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
1902 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City, New York
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