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, 29,335,680 minutes 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

• 1614 –
  Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
• 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.
• 1899 –
  Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
• 1899 –
  The Western League is renamed the American League.
• 1954 –
  First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
• 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.
• 2000 –
  NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.

Who were born on October 11?

• 1814 –
  Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
• 1872 –
  Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
• 1884 –
  Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
• 1919 –
  Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
• 1930 –
  Sam Johnson, American politician
• 1954 –
  David Michaels, American professor and government official
• 1966 –
  Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 –
  Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
• 1974 –
  Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1978 –
  Kali, Angolan footballer

Who died on October 11?

• 1572 –
  Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal
• 1705 –
  Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 1896 –
  Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• 1935 –
  Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1963 –
  Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
• 1991 –
  Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
• 2005 –
  Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
• 2005 –
  Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 2007 –
  Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)
• 2009 –
  Angelo DiGeorge, Italian-American pediatric endocrinologist (b. 1922)