SomeFacts | October 11

On this day - October 11

1138 — A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most ...

1142 — A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars.

1311 — The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of English kings ...

1614 — The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of ...

1634 — The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, ...

1649 — Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over ...

1776 — American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake ...

1797 — The Royal Navy decisively defeats the Batavian Navy at ...

1811 — The Juliana begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry ...

1840 — The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman ...

1852 — The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, ...

1862 — American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on ...

1865 — Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the ...

1890 — In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution ...

1899 — The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the ...

1906 — San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United ...

1910 — Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first ...

1912 — First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, ...

1918 — The 7.1 Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake ...

1937 — The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days ...

1941 — Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.

1942 — World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships ...

1944 — The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet ...

1950 — CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the ...

1954 — In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops ...

1958 — NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it ...

1962 — The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical ...

1968 — NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo ...

1976 — George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of ...

1984 — Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon ...

1984 — Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. ...

1986 — Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to ...

1987 — Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. ...

1987 — The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second ...

1991 — Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning ...

1999 — Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir ...

2000 — NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.

2001 — The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy ...

2002 — A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland ...

2013 — A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least ...

2018 — Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers ...