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 284th 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.
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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.
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October 11 Historical Events
- 1138 –A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
- 1809 –Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand.
- 1864 –Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
- 1890 –In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- 1906 –San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- 1957 –Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I’s booster rocket’s orbit.
- 1958 –Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- 1972 –A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
- 1984 –Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 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.
Who were born on October 11?
- 1661 –Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
- 1929 –Curtis Amy, American tenor saxophone jazz musician
- 1946 –Daryl Hall, American rock singer
- 1961 –Steve Young, American football player
- 1962 –Andy McCoy, Finnish musician Hanoi Rocks
- 1967 –Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
- 1971 –MC Lyte, American rapper
- 1982 –Kristy Wu, American Actress
- 1983 –Bradley James, British actor
- 1983 –Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
Who died on October 11?
- 1188 –Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
- 1572 –Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal
- 1779 –Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
- 1852 –Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
- 1889 –James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
- 1896 –Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
- 1965 –Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
- 1971 –Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
- 1993 –Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
- 2004 –Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
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