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 |
| 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) |
| 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated in Sydney two years after the New South Wales Legislative Council established it with the passage of the University of Sydney Act. | unreferenced/refimprove sections |
| 1865 – The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica, but eventually it was brutally suppressed by Governor Edward John Eyre. | refimprove section |
| 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
- 1311 – The peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England published the Ordinances of 1311 to restrict King Edward II's powers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1840 – Bashir Shihab II (portrait pictured) surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree by Sultan Abdülmecid I.
- 1937 – Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, arrived at Friedrichstraße station in Berlin to begin their tour of Germany.
- 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, the first manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, and the first three-man American space mission, launched from Complex 34 in Cape Canaveral, 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.
- 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 previous.
- Born/died: | Edward Colston |d|1721| Grigory Potemkin |b|1739| Maria James |b|1793| Henry J. Heinz |b|1844| Thích Nhất Hạnh |b|1926| Amitabh Bachchan |b|1942| Dorothea Lange |d|1965| Werner von Trapp |d|2007
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
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Nancy Pelosi at the "Great March"
- 1142 – The Treaty of Shaoxing was ratified, ending the Jin–Song Wars, although sporadic fighting continued until 1234.
- 1492 – Members of Christopher Columbus's first voyage reported a sighting of unknown light on their way to Guanahani.
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captured eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses at the Battle of Camperdown.
- 1987 – An estimated 750,000 people attended the "Great March" (pictured) in Washington, D.C., to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT community.
- Casimir Pulaski (d. 1779)
- María Teresa Ferrari (b. 1887)
- Douglas Albert Munro (b. 1919)
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