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, 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.
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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
- 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.
- 1910 –Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
- 1929 –JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
- 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.
- 1950 –Television: CBS’s mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
- 1958 –Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- 1968 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
- 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.
- 1984 –Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
Who were born on October 11?
- 1919 –Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
- 1928 –Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957)
- 1946 –Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
- 1949 –Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda
- 1953 –David Morse, American actor
- 1966 –Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler
- 1974 –Jamie Thomas, American skateboarder
- 1978 –Kali, Angolan footballer
- 1982 –Kristy Wu, American Actress
- 1991 –Panagiotis Vlachodimos, Greek footballer
Who died on October 11?
- 1531 –Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
- 1708 –Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
- 1821 –John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
- 1940 –Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
- 1963 –Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
- 1996 –Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
- 1996 –Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
- 2000 –Luc-Marie Bayle, French naval officer and artist (b. 1914)
- 2002 –Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
- 2007 –David Lee “Tex” Hill, World War II fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b. 1915)
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