Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 11
This is a list of selected October 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| General Pulaski Memorial Day in the United States | refimprove |
| 1138 – A massive earthquake, one of the deadliest in recorded history, struck Aleppo, Syria. | refimprove section |
| 1531 – Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in battle when Zürich forces were attacked by Catholic cantons in response to a food blockade being applied by his alliance. | several unreferenced paragraphs |
| 1614 – A group of merchants led by Adriaen Block presented a petition to the States General of the Netherlands to receive exclusive trading privileges for the New Netherland colony. | refimprove section |
| 1634 – A storm tide on the coast of North Frisia caused a massive flood that killed at least 8,000 people and split the island of Strand into three smaller islands. | refimprove |
| 1767 – Unable to go any further, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made their final observations for what would become known as the Mason–Dixon line. | trivia |
| 1809 – American explorer Meriwether Lewis died along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee in an apparent suicide. | refimprove sections (include in the births/deaths when eligible again) |
| 1899 – The Second Boer War erupted in what is now South Africa between the United Kingdom and the Boers. | refimprove section |
| 1941 – Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia attacked Axis-occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National Liberation War of Macedonia. | refimprove |
| 1950 – A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use, only for it to be abandoned a year later. | 'History' section is unreferenced. {cn} tags in 'Later use' section. |
| 1954 – Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam under the terms of the Geneva Accords which saw the end of the First Indochina War and French colonisation. | refimprove |
| 1962 – Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, the first Roman Catholic ecumenical council in 92 years. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1142 – The Treaty of Shaoxing was ratified, ending the Jin–Song Wars, although sporadic fighting continued until 1234.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A British fleet defeated American ships at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, but gave American forces enough time to prepare their defenses for the Saratoga campaign.
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captured eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses at the Battle of Camperdown.
- 1840 – Bashir Shihab II (pictured) surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree by Sultan Abdülmecid I.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet sent to attack Henderson Field.
- 1968 – Apollo 7 (lift-off pictured), the first manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, and the first three-man American space mission, launched from Complex 34 in Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- 1975 – The American weekly sketch comedy–variety show Saturday Night Live was broadcast for the first time.
- 1987 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began Operation Pawan to take control of Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers and enforce their disarmament as a part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord.
- 1987 – An estimated 750,000 people attended the "Great March" in Washington, D.C., to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT community.
- 1991 – During the confirmation hearings upon the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States, Anita Hill testified that he had sexually harassed her several years earlier.
- 2002 – A bomb exploded in the Myyrmanni shopping center in Helsinki, Finland, resulting in 7 deaths and 159 injuries.
- Born/died: | Edward Colston |d|1721| Grigory Potemkin |b|1739| Maria James |b|1793| Henry J. Heinz |b|1844| María Teresa Ferrari |b|1887| Douglas Albert Munro |b|1919| Thích Nhất Hạnh |b|1926| Amitabh Bachchan |b|1942| Dorothea Lange |d|1965| Toby Fox |b|1991| Beni Montresor |d|2001|
Notes
- Christopher Columbus appears on October 12, so 1492 light sighting should not appear in the same year.
- National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1979) appears on October 14, so Second March should not appear in the same year.
October 11: Feast day of Saint James the Deacon (Anglicanism); National Coming Out Day
Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney
- 1311 – The peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England published the Ordinances of 1311 to restrict King Edward II's powers.
- 1852 – The University of Sydney (pictured), Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated two years after being established by the University of Sydney Act.
- 1865 – The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica; after protestors burned down the courthouse, it was brutally suppressed by Governor Edward John Eyre.
- 1937 – Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, arrived at Berlin Friedrichstraße station to begin a tour of Nazi Germany, where they were greeted with Nazi salutes and dined with high-ranking members of the state apparatus.
- 1973 – Typhoon Nora, the fourth-most intense tropical cyclone on record, dissipated after killing 40 people and leaving more than a million homeless across Taiwan and the Philippines.
- Huldrych Zwingli (d. 1531)
- Casimir Pulaski (d. 1779)
- Jean Alexander (b. 1926)
- Sawao Katō (b. 1946)
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