This Day in History
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
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Bruce Springsteen scores his first pop hit with Born to Run
By 1975 26-year-old Bruce Springsteen had two heavily promoted major-label albums behind him but nothing approaching a popular hit. Tapped by Columbia Records...
Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II
Pope John XXIII convenes an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Churchthe first in 92 years. In summoning the ecumenical councila general m...
Boer War begins in South Africa
The South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.The Boers also known as Afrikaners were the ...
Apollo 7 launched
Apollo 7 the first manned Apollo mission is launched with astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. Under the command o...
Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
On October 11 2002 former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to internatio...
Viet Minh take control in the north
The Viet Minh formally take over Hanoi and control of North Vietnam.The Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh (Vietnam Independence League) or Viet Minh as it would become...
Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham
On October 11 1975 William Jefferson Clinton marries Hillary Rodham in Little Rock Arkansas.Bill and Hillary met in 1972 while both were studying law at Yale...
Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace Tennessee
On October 11 1809 the famous explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of the morning after stopping for the night at ...
Saturday Night Live debuts
On October 11 1975 Saturday Night Live (SNL) a topical comedy sketch show featuring Chevy Chase John Belushi Dan Aykroyd Gilda Radner Garrett Morris Jan...
Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia
The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on October 11 1793. By the time it ended 5000 people were dead.Yellow fever or American...
Soviet U S arms control talks break down over President Reagan s Star Wars initiative
Following up on their successful November 1985 summit meeting in Geneva President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik Iceland...
Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island
On October 11 1776 a British fleet under Sir Guy Carleton defeats 15 American gunboats under the command of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold at the Battle of...
1976: China's 'Gang of Four' arrested
1976 Chinas Gang of Four arrested The new chairman of Chinas Communist Party Hua Guofeng has ordered the arrest of four leading radicals in P...
Defender of the Faith Henry Rejects Rome
October 11 1521 King Henry VIII is probably the most iconic British monarch famous for acquiring six wives in his quest for a son and heir and...
1974: Labour scrapes working majority
Final results have confirmed that Harold Wilsons Labour government has won a second term in office.Mr Wilsons goal of converting the first minority govern...
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