11 October
Notable Births
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)
Rhea Ripley
b. 1996
Australian professional wrestler (born 1996)
Arman Tsarukyan
b. 1996
Armenian mixed martial artist, submission grappler, and freestyle wrestler (born 1996)
Nicolás Jarry
b. 1995
Chilean tennis player (born 1995)
Zior Park
b. 1994
South Korean rapper (born 1994)
T. J. Watt
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Brandon Flynn
b. 1993
American actor (born 1993)
Hardik Pandya
b. 1993
Indian cricketer (born 1993)
Cardi B
b. 1992
American rapper (born 1992)
Riffi Mandanda
b. 1992
Footballer (born 1992)
Ligi Sao
b. 1992
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Joel Bitonio
b. 1991
American football player (born 1991)
Gio Urshela
b. 1991
Colombian baseball player (born 1991)
Kika van Es
b. 1991
Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Sebastian Rode
b. 1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Michelle Wie West
b. 1989
American professional golfer (born 1989)
Roman Jakobson
b. 1896
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
Notable Deaths
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
Carmelo Simeone
d. 2014
Argentine association footballer
Bob Such
d. 2014
Australian politician
María de Villota
d. 2013
Spanish racing driver
Erich Priebke
d. 2013
German SS police commander (1913–2013)
Helmut Haller
d. 2012
German footballer (1939–2012)
Edward Kossoy
d. 2012
Édgar Negret
d. 2012
Colombian sculptor
Champ Summers
d. 2012
American baseball player (1946–2012)
Angelo DiGeorge
d. 2009
Jörg Haider
d. 2008
Austrian politician (1950–2008)
Neal Hefti
d. 2008
American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger (1922–2008)
Tex Hill
d. 2007
United States Air Force general
Trapp Family
d. 2007
Musical family
Cory Lidle
d. 2006
American baseball player (1972–2006)
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
1987
Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
Operation Pawan
1986
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
Ronald Reagan
1984
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
Kathryn D. Sullivan
1984
Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
Aeroflot Flight 3352
1976
George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
George Washington
1968
NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission.
Apollo 7
1962
The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
Second Vatican Council
1958
NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
Pioneer 1
1954
In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
1954 Geneva Conference
1950
CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Field-sequential color system
1944
The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.
Tuvan People's Republic
1942
World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
World War II