What are the important events that happened on October 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 11: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 11 is the 284^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 28, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,928 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontatetragon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 129 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,677 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 11 Historical Events

• 1767 –
  Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
• 1797 –
  Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
• 1811 –
  Inventor John Stevens’ boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
• 1852 –
  The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
• 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.
• 1890 –
  In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
• 1976 –
  George Washington’s appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
• 1982 –
  The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
• 1986 –
  Cold War: U.S. 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 –
  Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.

Who were born on October 11?

• 1879 –
  Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944)
• 1902 –
  Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979)
• 1924 –
  Mal Whitfield, American athlete
• 1926 –
  Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales
• 1946 –
  Gary Mallaber, American musician
• 1951 –
  Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter
• 1957 –
  Paul Sereno, American paleontologist
• 1967 –
  Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
• 1976 –
  Dominic Aitchison, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
• 1982 –
  Terrell Suggs, American Football Player

Who died on October 11?

• 1424 –
  Jan Žižka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1360)
• 1705 –
  Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 1897 –
  Léon Boëllmann, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1940 –
  Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1963 –
  Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
• 1965 –
  Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
• 1996 –
  Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
• 2000 –
  Donald Dewar, first First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2004 –
  Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
• 2005 –
  Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)