Today in History
11 October
239 births · 91 deaths · 41 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1976
Dominic Aitchison
Musical artist
Notable Births
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Maja Chwalińska
b. 2001
Polish tennis player (born 2001)
Jacob Preston (rugby league)
b. 2001
Australian rugby league footballer
Leicester Faingaʻanuku
b. 1999
NZ rugby union player (born 1999)
Keldon Johnson
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Dominic Aitchison
b. 1976
Musical artist
André Emmerich
b. 1924
German-born American gallerist
Joe Simon
b. 1913
American comic book creator (1913–2011)
Roman Jakobson
b. 1896
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
Notable Deaths
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Diane Keaton
d. 2025
American actress (1946–2025)
Angela Lansbury
d. 2022
British-American-Irish actress and singer (1925–2022)
Alexei Leonov
d. 2019
Soviet cosmonaut (1934–2019)
Clifford Husbands
d. 2017
Barbadian judge
Dean Chance
d. 2015
American baseball player (1941–2015)
Anita Cerquetti
d. 2014
Italian singer
Neal Hefti
d. 2008
American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger (1922–2008)
Léon Boëllmann
d. 1897
French composer and organist (1862–1897)
On This Day in History
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2018
Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
Soyuz MS-10
2013
A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.
2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
2002
A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
Myyrmanni bombing
2001
The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
Polaroid Corporation
2000
NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
STS-92
1999
Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.
Air Botswana
1991
Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
Anita Hill
1987
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt