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Events on the 11th of October in history

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11 Oct 0732 Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
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11 Oct 1138 A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
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11 Oct 1142 A peace treaty between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court during the Jin–Song wars.
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11 Oct 1521 Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
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11 Oct 1531 Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant
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11 Oct 1531 Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
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11 Oct 1540 Emperor Karel names his son Philip, Duke of Milan
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11 Oct 1573 Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
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11 Oct 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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11 Oct 1614 Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
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11 Oct 1634 The Burchardi flood – "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
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11 Oct 1643 Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1687 Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty
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11 Oct 1689 Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
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11 Oct 1698 France, England and Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty
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11 Oct 1726 Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
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11 Oct 1727 George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
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11 Oct 1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys
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11 Oct 1746 Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English / Austria / Netherlands armies
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
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11 Oct 1797 Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands
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11 Oct 1809 Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
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11 Oct 1811 Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
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11 Oct 1811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1852 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
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11 Oct 1861 Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1864 Campina Grande, Brazil, is established as a city.
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11 Oct 1864 Slavery abolished in Maryland
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11 Oct 1865 President Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
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11 Oct 1865 Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
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11 Oct 1868 Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
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11 Oct 1871 Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
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11 Oct 1873 Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to University of Toronto
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11 Oct 1881 David Houston patents roll film for cameras
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11 Oct 1887 A Miles patents elevator
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11 Oct 1890 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4 / 5 seconds, Washington DC)
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11 Oct 1890 In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
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11 Oct 1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
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11 Oct 1895 Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
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11 Oct 1899 South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1899 The Western League is renamed the American League.
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11 Oct 1902 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City, New York
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11 Oct 1902 Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament
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11 Oct 1906 San Francisco begins school for "Asians"
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11 Oct 1906 White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
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11 Oct 1906 San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1911 Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
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11 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
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11 Oct 1913 Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
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11 Oct 1913 Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
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11 Oct 1914 German troops occupy Gent
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11 Oct 1915 Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
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11 Oct 1918 San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
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11 Oct 1919 1st transcontinental air race ends
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11 Oct 1922 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
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11 Oct 1922 Turkey and Greece sign cease fire
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11 Oct 1923 Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
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11 Oct 1923 German mark falls to 10 billion per
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11 Oct 1925 Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
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11 Oct 1925 New York Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
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11 Oct 1927 Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
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11 Oct 1927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP
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11 Oct 1929 J. C. Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
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11 Oct 1931 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
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11 Oct 1932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City
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11 Oct 1932 Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party
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11 Oct 1936 "Professor Quiz, " 1st radio quiz show premieres
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11 Oct 1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
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11 Oct 1939 Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again
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11 Oct 1939 NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund
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11 Oct 1941 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
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11 Oct 1941 Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1943 NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, 10th WS win - NY Yankees become 1st team to win 10 World Series
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11 Oct 1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
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11 Oct 1944 Tuvan People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
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11 Oct 1945 JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
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11 Oct 1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
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11 Oct 1947 Brazil and Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
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11 Oct 1948 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
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11 Oct 1950 Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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11 Oct 1954 "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 64 performances
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11 Oct 1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
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11 Oct 1954 First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
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11 Oct 1955 All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
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11 Oct 1955 Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
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11 Oct 1956 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
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11 Oct 1957 Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.
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11 Oct 1958 "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
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11 Oct 1958 Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
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11 Oct 1958 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
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11 Oct 1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
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11 Oct 1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
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11 Oct 1960 Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
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11 Oct 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m
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11 Oct 1962 Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
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11 Oct 1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show
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11 Oct 1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
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11 Oct 1967 World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
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11 Oct 1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
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11 Oct 1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
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11 Oct 1968 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
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11 Oct 1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
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11 Oct 1968 Panama revolts
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11 Oct 1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
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11 Oct 1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
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11 Oct 1971 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
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11 Oct 1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
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11 Oct 1971 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
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11 Oct 1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show
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11 Oct 1972 Panama adopts constitution
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11 Oct 1972 Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
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11 Oct 1972 A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
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11 Oct 1972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
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11 Oct 1973 Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
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11 Oct 1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
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11 Oct 1975 Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
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11 Oct 1975 Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
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11 Oct 1975 The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
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11 Oct 1975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
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11 Oct 1976 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
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11 Oct 1976 George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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11 Oct 1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
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11 Oct 1978 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
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11 Oct 1978 Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
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11 Oct 1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
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11 Oct 1979 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
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11 Oct 1979 Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
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11 Oct 1980 Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
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11 Oct 1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
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11 Oct 1981 Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
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11 Oct 1981 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
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11 Oct 1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
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11 Oct 1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
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11 Oct 1981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
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11 Oct 1982 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg
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11 Oct 1982 Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
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11 Oct 1982 The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
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11 Oct 1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
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11 Oct 1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
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11 Oct 1984 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
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11 Oct 1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
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11 Oct 1984 An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
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11 Oct 1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
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11 Oct 1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)
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11 Oct 1985 President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
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11 Oct 1985 US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
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11 Oct 1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
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11 Oct 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.
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11 Oct 1986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
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11 Oct 1987 Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
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11 Oct 1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
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11 Oct 1990 "Miser" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 93 performances
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11 Oct 1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
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11 Oct 1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
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11 Oct 1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
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11 Oct 1991 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
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11 Oct 1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her
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11 Oct 1991 Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
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11 Oct 1992 1st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
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11 Oct 1992 Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) and Braves (Baseball)
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11 Oct 1993 Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
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11 Oct 1993 US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
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11 Oct 1994 Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
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11 Oct 1994 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
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11 Oct 1995 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
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11 Oct 1995 O J Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
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11 Oct 1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
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11 Oct 1996 Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
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11 Oct 1997 Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
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11 Oct 1998 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament
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11 Oct 2000 NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
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11 Oct 2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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11 Oct 2002 A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
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