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
- 1531 –Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
- 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.
- 1809 –Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand.
- 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.
- 1864 –Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
- 1899 –The Western League is renamed the American League.
- 1906 –San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- 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.
- 1941 –Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
- 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.
- 1972 –A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
- 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.
- 1982 –The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
- 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.
- 2001 –The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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