About October 11
October 11, 2024 is the 285th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 110 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 11
- 1138 –A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
- 1531 –Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
- 1797 –Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
- 1809 –Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand.
- 1852 –The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
- 1862 –American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
- 1864 –Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
- 1865 –Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
- 1890 –In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –Tuvinian People’s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
- 1950 –Television: CBS’s mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
- 1954 –First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- 1958 –Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- 1962 –Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
- 1976 –George Washington’s appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
- 1987 –Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.
- 2001 –The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
- 2002 –A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
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