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1492Oct 11Rodrigo de Triana, a sailor on the Pinta, sighted land (the Bahamas) on the horizon.
1531Oct 11The Catholics defeated the Protestants at Kappel during Switzerland’s second civil war.
1540Oct 11Charles V of Milan put his son Philip in control.
1582Oct 11This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
1689Oct 11Peter the Great became tsar of Russia.
1726Oct 11Benjamin Franklin returned to Philadelphia from England.
1727Oct 11George II was crowned as king of England.
1776Oct 11The naval Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution. American forces led by Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses, but managed to stall the British.
1809Oct 11Meriwether Lewis committed suicide at 35.
1811Oct 11The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1837Oct 11Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), died at 71.
1861Oct 11Battle of Dumfries, Va., at Quantico Creek.
1864Oct 11Slavery was abolished in Maryland.
1868Oct 11Thomas Edison patented his 1st invention, an electric voice machine.
1871Oct 11The Great Chicago Fire was finally extinguished after 3 days. Over 300 were killed.
1881Oct 11David Houston patented roll film for cameras.
1887Oct 11A. Miles patented the elevator.
1890Oct 11The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) was founded in Washington, D.C.
1891Oct 11Charles Stewart Parnell (d.Oct 6) was buried in Ireland.
1896Oct 11Anton Bruckner (b.1824), Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), died at 72.
1910Oct 11Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s Far East combined shows arrived in San Francisco. They set up on 8 acres at 12th and Market with a big arena and 22 tents. This was part of Col. William Cody’s farewell tour.
1915Oct 11A Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive began.
1919Oct 11The 1st transcontinental air race ended.
1929Oct 11Sean O’Casey’s “Silver Tassle,” premiered in London.
1931Oct 11Some 100,000 extreme right Germans formed the “Harzburger Front.”
1932Oct 11The first American political telecast took place as the Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS television studio in NYC.
1935Oct 11In San Francisco 5 tons of molten glass escaped from a break in a 300-ton furnace at the 15th and Folsom streets plant of Owens-Illinois Co. An emergency pit caught most of the escaping glass.
1942Oct 11In the World War II Battle of Cape Esperance in the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeated a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter,
1945Oct 11Negotiations between Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung broke down. Nationalist and Communist troops were soon engaged in a civil war.
1947Oct 11The vision of a Friendship Train appeared in American thought and history in the columns and broadcasts of Drew Pearson. The train traveled across America to collect food that would be shipped overseas to help European countries recover from World War II.
1950Oct 11The Federal Communications Commission authorized the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to begin commercial color TV broadcasts.
1955Oct 11All Peron feast days were abolished in Argentina.
1960Oct 11A hurricane ravaged East Pakistan and some 6,000 died.
1971Oct 11Switzerland established diplomatic relations with North Vietnam.
1972Oct 11A French mission in Vietnam was destroyed by a U.S. bombing raid.
1975Oct 11Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham in Fayetteville, Ark.
1979Oct 11Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield won Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan.
1984Oct 11August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” premiered in NYC.
1985Oct 11President Reagan’s ban on the importation of South African Krugerrands went into effect.
1986Oct 11President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1988Oct 11China agreed to the opening of an Israeli Scientific Exchange office in Beijing.
1990Oct 11The Center for Urban Archaeology opened in NYC South Street Seaport Museum.
1991Oct 11Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was seen hustling a prostitute.
1992Oct 11President Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot met for the first of three debates, this one held at Washington University in St. Louis.
1993Oct 11In Haiti, army-backed toughs prevented American troops from landing as part of a U.N. peace mission and drove away U.S. diplomats waiting to greet the soldiers.
1994Oct 11U.S. troops in Haiti took over the National Palace.
1995Oct 11Americans Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland and Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their controversial work warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items were eating away Earth’s ozone layer.
1996Oct 11In Germany the parliament voted to reduce the 656 seats of the Bundestag, lower house, to 598 seats after elections in 2002.
1998Oct 11Richard Holbrooke met again with Pres. Milosevic in an effort to avoid NATO attacks on Serbia due to the Serb stand on Kosovo.
1999Oct 11In Paris riot police used tear gas against egg-throwing chefs, who demanded that the government lift a 20.6% tax on restaurant meals.
2000Oct 11Pres. Clinton agreed to sign legislation to lift the embargo on food sales to Cuba. It also provided aid to drought-stricken farmers and allowed the import of US-made drugs that are sold cheaper in other countries.
2001Oct 11In Kuwait Luc Ethier, a Canadian employed at the Ahmad al-Jaber airbase, was shot and killed in Fahaheel. Ethier’s wife was also shot.
2003Oct 11Clerks for three major supermarket chains in Southern California began a four-and-a-half-month strike after negotiations with store officials broke off.
2004Oct 11Pres. Bush proclaimed Oct 11 as Columbus Day. In 1968 Pres. Johnson had set Columbus Day, previously celebrated on Oct. 12, to be held on the 2nd Monday of October.
2005Oct 11The US Army Corps of Engineers said it had finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
2006Oct 11The charge of treason was used for the first time in the US war on terrorism, filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, who’d appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaida.
2007Oct 11The Bush administration reported that the federal budget deficit had fallen to $162.8 billion in the just-completed budget year, the lowest amount of red ink in five years.
2008Oct 11President Bush met with foreign financial officials and pledged a global response to the credit crisis that will lead toward a “path of stability and long-term growth.”
2009Oct 11In Thailand thousands of supporters of deposed PM Thaksin Shinawatra, all in red shirts, rallied in Bangkok to demand the government step down and call fresh elections
2011Oct 11Washington acknowledged for the first time that it is waging “war” against militants in Pakistan.
2012Oct 11The Obama administration declared the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 to be an international criminal group, an unprecedented crackdown targeting the finances of the sprawling US and Central American gang infamous for hacking and stabbing victims with machetes.
2013Oct 11The US Air Force fired Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, the senior officer in charge of its nuclear missiles. A pending investigation was said to be related to alcohol use.
2014Oct 11In San Francisco the new US assault ship, the America, was officially enetered into service as part of Fleet Week celebrations.
Source: Timelines of History  

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