On this day in History - Oct. 11

0961 - Death of St. Bruno
1347 - Death of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
1303 - Benito Gaetani - Pope Boniface VIII (1294 - 1303), dies in Rome
1521 - Pope Leo X names King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli dies (b. 1484). Swiss Protestant leader
1551 -The 13th Session of the Council of Trent opened, during which major decisions were reached regarding the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1611 - John Cowell dies (b. 1554). English jurist.
1614 - Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1616 - Andreas Gryphius was born (d. 1664). German write.
1661 - Melchior de Polignac was born (d. 1742). French diplomat.
1671 - King Frederick IV of Denmark was born (d. 1730)
1675 - Samuel Clarke was born (d. 1729). English philosopher.
1684 - James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven dies (b. 1617)
1705 - Guillaume Amontons dies (b. 1663). French physicist and instrument maker.
1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies (b. 1651). German mathematician
1721 - Edward Colston dies (b. 1636). English merchant and philanthropist.
1725 - Hans Herr dies (b. 1639). Swiss-born Mennonite bishop.
1727 - George II of England crowned.
1738 - Arthur Phillip was born (d. 1814). British admiral, Governor of New South Wales.
1755 - Fausto de Elhuyar y de Suvisa was born. Spanish chemist and mineralogist.
1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers was born (d. 1840). German astronomer
1759 - Mason Locke Weems was born (d. 1825) . Episcopalian clergyman and writer (Life of Washington).
1776 - American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island - On Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.
1778 - George Polgreen Bridgetower was born. English violinist.
1779 - Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski was killed while fighting for American independence during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Georgia.
1779 - Casimir Pulaski dies (b. 1745). Polish fighter for American independence.
1788 - Simon Sechter was born (d. 1867). Austrian music teacher.
1809 - Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1809 - Meriwether Lewis dies ( suicide) (b. 1774). American explorer.
1811 - Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1813 - Robert Kerr dies (b. 1755). Scotish naturalist and translator.
1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte was born (d. 1881). Italian-born adventurer and politician.
1821 - George Williams was born (d. 1905). English founder of the YMCA
1830 - José de La Mar dies (b. 12 May 1776). President of Peru (1822-1823 and 1827-1829).
1839 - D. Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre, Marquesa de Alorna, morre (n. 1750 em Lisboa). Escritora portuguesa.
1844 - Henry Heinz was born (d. 1916). American food manufacturer.
1846 - Carlos Pellegrini was born. President of Argentine (1890-1892)
1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein dies (b. 1823). Mathematician.
1858 - Nils Kreuger was born (d. 1930). Swedish artist.
1862 - American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1863 - Louis Cyr was born (d. 1912). Canadian strongman.
1865 - Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1866 -Carlos Arniches Barrera was born in Alicante (d. 16 Apr 1943). Spanish dramatist.
1872 - Harlan F. Stone was born (d. 1946). Chief Justice of the United States.
1876 - Sublevación del general Porfirio Díaz contra el presidente mexicano, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, al que sucedió.
1877 - Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, is hanged, but it took two tries; on the first try, the rope slipped and his knees drug the ground.
1881 - Hans Kelsen was born. Austrian legal theorist
1884 - Friedrich Bergius was born (d. 1949). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt was born (d. 1962). First Lady of the United States
1885 - François Mauriac was born (d. 1970). French writer (Nobel 1952)
1889 - James Prescott Joule dies (b. 1818). English physicist
1890 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1890 - José Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa substitui António de Serpa Pimentel no cargo de ministro do reino de Portugal.
1895 - Jakov Gotovac was born (d. 1982). Croatian composer.
1896 - Portugal: É fundado o «Diário de Notícias» do Funchal.
1896 - Roman Jakobson was born (d. 1982). Russian lexicographer
1896 - Anton Bruckner dies (b. 1824). Austrian composer.
1896 - Edward White Benson dies (b. 1829). Archbishop of Canterbury
1899 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1906 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1908 - Cartola was born (d. 1980). Brazilian composer.
1910 - Joseph Alsop was born. American journalist.
1911 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes apresenta credenciais de embaixador de Portugal no Reino Unido.
1915 - Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.
1918 - Jerome Robbins was born (d. 1998). American choreographer.
1919 - Art Blakey was born (d. 1990). American jazz drummer.
1919 - Jean Vander Pyl was born (d. 1999). American voice actress.
1924 - Mal Whitfield was born. American athlete
1924 - Francisco Aguilar Barquero dies. Presidente of Costa Rica (1919-1920)
1925 - Elmore Leonard was born. American novelist
1926 - São João da Madeira torna-se um município (autónomo de Oliveira de Azeméis)
1927 - Miguel II de Bragança dies (b. 1853)
1928 - Alfonso de Portago was born (d. 1957). Spanish race car driver.
1929 - JC Penney open Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1930 - Sam Johnson was born. American politician
1932 - Dottie West was born (d. 1991). American singer (Here Comes My Baby, Country Sunshine, Is this Me?, Would You Hold It Against Me, What are We Doin' in Love )
1936 - Tom Zé was born. Brazilian composer
1937 - Bobby Charlton was born. English football player.
1937 - Ron Leibman was born. Actor.
1939 - Maria Bueno was born. Brazilian tennis player
1939 - Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop an atomic bomb program.
1940 - Lluís Companys dies shot (b. 1882). President of Generalitat of Catalonia
1942 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1942 - Amitabh Bachchan was born. Indian actor, singer, and producer
1943 - John Nettles was born. English actor
1943 - Gene Watson was born. Country singer.
1946 - Gary Mallaber was born. Musician (The Steve Miller Band)
1946 - Sawao Kato was born. Japanese gymnast
1949 - Greg Douglas was born. Musician (The Steve Miller Band)
1949 - Daryl Hall, American musician (Hall & Oates)
1950 - Andrew Woolfolk was born. Rhythm-and-blues musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1950 - Catlin Adams was born. Film director
1950 - The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however). 1951 - Jean-Jacques Goldman was born. French singer and songwriter
1953 - David Morse was born. American actor
1953 - Pauline Robinson Robin Bush was born. Daughter of G.H.W. Bush
1953 - Paulette Carlson was born. Country singer
1954 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos was born. President of Paraguay
1957 - Lobão was born. Brazilian musician.
1957 - Dawn French was born. Welsh comedienne
1958 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1961 - Steve Young, American football player
1961 - Chico Marx dies (b. 1887). American comedian
1962 - Nicola Bryant was born. British actress
1962 - Joan Cusack was born. American actress and comedienne
1962 - Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1963 - Jean Cocteau dies (b. 1889). French writer
1965 - Dorothea Lange dies (b. 1895). American photographer
1965 - Anos de Chumbo: campus da Universidade de Brasília é invadido, por tropas e pela polícia
1966 - Luke Perry was born. American actor
1967 - Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons
1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1968 - Panamá: Un golpe de estado de la Guardia Nacional derroca al presidente Arnulfo Arias, y se forma una Junta presidida por Omar Torrijos.
1968 - Fundação do Partido Quebequense
1968 - Jane Krakowski was born. Actress ("Ally McBeal")
1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands was born.
1970 - U-God was born. American rapper
1971 - MC Lyte (Lana M. Moorer) was born. Rapper. She was the first female Hip Hop artist to receive a Gold record (certifying over 500,000 units sold).
1972 - Claudia Black was born. Australian actress
1975 - NeeNa Lee was born. Singer.
1975 - Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the guest host.
1976 - The so-called "Gang of Four," Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow and three associates are arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party.
1976 - Alfredo Bracchi dies (b. 1897). Italian author
1977 - MacKinlay Kantor dies (b. 1904). American author
1977 - Claudia Palacios was born. Colombian television journalist
1977 - Ty Wigginton was born. Baseball player
1983 - Ruslan Ponomariov was born. Ukranian chess player.
1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American women to perform a space walk.
1985 - Arab-American activist Alex Odeh was killed by a bomb blast in Santa Ana, California.
1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg was born. American actress
1986 - Cold War: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 - March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights attracts between 500,000 and 600,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and the U.S. government's handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
1989 - Michelle Wie was born. American golfer
1989 - M. King Hubbert dies (b. 1904). American geophysicist
1990 - Octavio Paz was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, the first Mexican writer so honored.
1991 - Comedian Redd Foxx died in Los Angeles at age 68.
1991 - Morre Álvaro Salema (n. 1914). Crítico literário e ensaísta português.
1991 - Morre, em Espinho, José Marmelo e Silva (n. 7 Maio 1911). Escritor português, Comendador da Ordem de Mérito.
1991 - Jorge Trincheiras morre. Bailarino e coreógrafo português.
1991 - Redd Foxx dies (b. 1922). American comedian and actor
1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein dies (suicide). Poet
1993 - Jess Thomas dies (b. 1927). American tenor
1993 - William Nygaard, editor de norueguês do livro Versos Satânicos de Salman Rushdie escapa de uma tentativa de assassinato
1994 - U.S. troops in Haiti took over the National Palace.
1994 - Iraqi troops began moving north, away from the Kuwaiti border.
1995 - Americans Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland and Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their controversial work warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items are destroying Earth's protective ozone layer.
1996 - Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pro-democracy efforts in troubled East Timor.
1996 - Lars Ahlfors dies (b. 1907). Finnish mathematician
1996 - Renato Russo dies (b. 1960). Brazilian singer and composer
1996 - William Vickrey dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born, US economist, who, three days earlier, was named co-winner, with the British James A. Mirrlees [05 Jul 1936~], of the 1996 Nobel economics prize, "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information".
1997 - Authorities reported no survivors from the overnight crash of an Argentine jetliner in Uruguay which killed all 74 people on board.
1998 - A Congo Air Lines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo killing 40
1998 - Edith Stein é canonizada 1998: Pope John Paul II decreed the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a nun who died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
1999 - The Lord of the Rings movies begin principal photography.
1999 - Dr. Guenter Blobel of New York's Rockefeller University won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering how proteins find their rightful places in cells.
2000 - The Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, and Daniel L. McFadden, University of California.
2000 - Donald Dewar dies (b. 1937). First Minister of the Scottish Parliament
2001 - Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 - Bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland. See Myyrmanni bombing.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2004 - Keith Miller dies (b. 1919). Australian sportsman.
2004 - Christopher Reeve dies (b. 1952). American actor.
2004 - Fernando Sabino dies (b. 1923). Brazilian writer and journalist
2004 - Finn E. Kydland, Norwegian and Edward Prescott, American won The Nobel Prize in Economics “for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles”.
2005 - Sevendust releases its fifth album, Next.
Roman Empire - Meditrinalia is held in honor of Meditrina
United States - National Coming Out Day (not a federal holiday)
United States - General Pulaski Memorial Day Casimir Pulaski Memorial Day - Celebrated by presidential proclamation. This day honors the Polish hero of the American Revolution. He was killed on this day in 1779, while fighting in Savannah, Georgia.