About October 11
October 11, 2025 is the 284th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 129 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 11
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1634 –The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
- 1727 –George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
- 1767 –Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
- 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.
- 1833 –A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
- 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
- 1954 –First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
- 1968 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
- 1982 –The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
- 1984 –Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 1986 –Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
- 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.
- 2000 –NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
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