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11 Oct 1902
US Open Mens Golf Garden City GC Scotsman Laurie Auchterlonie sets new 72-hole event scoring record to win his only major title 6 strokes ahead of Stewart Gardner and amateur Walter Travis
11 Oct 1923
German Mark falls to 10 billion per 4 billion per
11 Oct 1968
Coup dtat in Panama against President Arnulfo Arias
11 Oct 1973
Hctor Jos Cmpora is elected President of Argentina
11 Oct 2013
TheOrganisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weaponswins the Nobel Peace Prize
11 Oct 1890
First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds run by John Owen in 9.8 sec at Analostan Island Washington D.C.
11 Oct 1987
200000 march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington D.C.
11 Oct 2009
Presidents Cup Golf Harding Park GC US down International team 1914 their 2nd consecutive win by that score and 3rd straight overall
11 Oct 2019
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed for peace deal with Eritrea
11 Oct 1737
Earthquake reported to have killed 300000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India. Now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane which claimed 3000 of the citys estimated 20000 residents. [1]
11 Oct 1913
Baseball World Series Philadelphia As beat NY Giants 3-1 at at Brush Stadium NYC clinch 4-1 series win for 3rd title in 10 years
11 Oct 2018
Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme is awarded the fourth 1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
11 Oct 2020
India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19
11 Oct 2020
Womens PGA Championship Aronimink GC Sei Young KIm wins her first major title by 5 strokes from fellow South Korean Inbee Park shoots tournament record total 266
11 Oct 1142
Treaty of Shaoxing ratified with Chinese southern Song Dynasty agreeing to pay tribute to northern Jin dynasty
11 Oct 1913
Baseball World Series Philadelphia As beat NY Giants 3-1 at Brush Stadium NYC clinch 4-1 series win for 3rd title in 10 years
11 Oct 1943
Baseball World Series NY Yankees become first team to win 10 Championships beat St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 at Sportsmans Park for 4 games to 1 series triumph
11 Oct 1946
New York Yankees trade infielder Joe Gordon to Cleveland Indians for pitcher Allie Reynolds
11 Oct 1948
Love Life opens at 46th St Theater NYC runs for 252 performances
11 Oct 1948
Baseball World Series Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves 4-3 at Braves Field to clinch series 4 games to 2 Indians second championship in team history
11 Oct 1948
Frank Loessers musical Wheres Charley starring Ray Bolger and directed by George Abbott opens at St James Theater NYC runs for 792 performances and wins a Tony Award
11 Oct 1972
World Hockey Association officially debuts as the Alberta Oilers defeat the Ottawa Nationals 7-4 at the Ottawa Civic Centre
11 Oct 1978
Columbia Records releases 52nd Street singer-songwriter Billy Joels sixth studio album it becomes his 1st chart-topper and wins 3 Grammy Awards
11 Oct 2021
Australias largest city Sydney ends its 107-day lockdown with restrictions easing for fully vaccinated people
11 Oct 2021
Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden steps down after The NY Times details emails in which he made homophobic and misogynistic remarks earlier reports alleged racist statements about a union leader
11 Oct 2021
Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to David Card Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for their work on natural experiments [1]
11 Oct 1883
US and Canadian railroads agree to use of five time-zone system for North America based on the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
11 Oct 1923
A pair of Babe Ruth home runs in the 4th and 5th innings is the difference NY Yankees beat NY Giants 4-2 at the Polo Grounds to tie World Series 1-1
11 Oct 1922
Armistice of Mudanya signed by Turkey and the Allies (Greece agrees 13 Oct) ending fighting in the Greco-Turkish War Turkey to retain eastern Trace
11 Oct 1945
First man-made object to escape the atmosphere (WAC Corporal) is fired from White Sands Missile Range New Mexico reaching 235000 feet
11 Oct 2023
Wild beavers re-introduced to Ealing London from Scotland after being absence from the city for 400 years [1]
11 Oct 1138
Earthquake in Aleppo Syria kills an estimated 230000 people
11 Oct 1540
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V secretly names his son Philip as Duke of Milan not made public till 1554
11 Oct 1573
Battle of the South Seas Dutch rebels defeat the Spanish navy
11 Oct 1634
Burchardi flood known as the second Grote Mandrenke kills about 15000 in North Friesland Denmark and Germany
11 Oct 1737
An earthquake is reported to have killed 300000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane that claimed 3000 of the citys estimated 20000 residents [1]
11 Oct 1797
Battle of Camperdown British North Sea fleet led by Admiral Adam Duncan decisively defeats a Dutch fleet led by Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter capturing eleven Dutch ships
11 Oct 1811
John Stevenss Juliana the first steam-powered ferry begins service
11 Oct 1852
Australias oldest university the University of Sydney is inaugurated in Sydney
11 Oct 1881
American inventor David Houston (26) patents roll film for cameras [1]
11 Oct 1883
US and Canadian railroads agree to the use of a five-time-zone system for North America based on the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
11 Oct 1922
Alaska Davidson becomes the first female FBI special investigator
11 Oct 1925
NY Giants play their first NFL game lose to Providence 14-0
11 Oct 1930
Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne Australia wins the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year
11 Oct 1931
100000 extreme right-wing Germans form the Harzburg Front
11 Oct 1932
First political telecast is made by the Democratic National Committee on CBS in NYC
11 Oct 1939
NAACP organizes Legal Defense & Education Fund
11 Oct 1968
Apollo 7 (Schirra Eisele and Cunningham) makes 163 orbits in 260 hours
11 Oct 1973
MLB Oakland As beat Baltimore Orioles 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
11 Oct 1979
German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner
11 Oct 1980
Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set a space endurance record of 184 days
11 Oct 1981
LeRoy Irvin sets the record for yards gained on punt returns with 207 yards
11 Oct 1983
The last hand-cranked telephones in the US go out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond Maine switch over to direct-dial
11 Oct 1984
Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan completes the first spacewalk by an American woman
11 Oct 2002
Bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa Finland kills seven people
11 Oct 2007
Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to British novelist Doris Lessing [1]
11 Oct 2017
TripAdvisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead North Yorkshire as the worlds best restaurant
11 Oct 2023
Wild beavers are reintroduced to Ealing London from Scotland after being absent from the city for 400 years [1]
11 Oct 2024
Archaeologists announce the discovery of one of the oldest churches in the world from the 4th century AD during excavations in Artaxata Armenia [1]
11 Oct 2024
England beats Pakistan by an innings & 47 runs in 1st cricket Test in Multan first time in Test history a side conceding 500 in 1st innings has gone on to win by an innings 7-823 Englands highest score since WWII
11 Oct 2024
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear organisation Nihon Hidankyo for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again [1]