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.
- 1649 –Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
- 1767 –Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
- 1809 –Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand.
- 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.
- 1899 –Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
- 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.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
- 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
- 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).
- 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.
- 1984 –Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 1996 –Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
- 2002 –A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
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