Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 11
October 11: Double Ninth Festival in the Chinese calendar (2005); National Coming Out Day in the United States.
- 1865: The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica. It was brutally suppressed by Governor Edward John Eyre.
- 1954: Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam.
- 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, the first Roman Catholic ecumenical council in 92 years.
- 1968: NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned mission of the Apollo program (mission patch pictured).
- 1975: Saturday Night Live, an American weekly comedy-variety show, was broadcast for the first time.
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