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11 October, 2002
A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
11 October, 2001
The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
11 October, 2000
The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
11 October, 1998
A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40
11 October, 1987
March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights attracts an estimated 200,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and the U.S. governments handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
11 October, 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.
11 October, 1984
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
11 October, 1982
The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth.
11 October, 1975
The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.
11 October, 1968
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
11 October, 1967
Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons
11 October, 1962
Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
11 October, 1958
Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
11 October, 1957
The Orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket carrying Sputnik I was first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
11 October, 1954
First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
11 October, 1950
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
11 October, 1944
Tuvinian Peoples Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
11 October, 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.
11 October, 1941
Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
11 October, 1939
Franklin D. Roosevelt receives letter from Einstein about atom bomb.
11 October, 1930
Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
11 October, 1929
JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
11 October, 1923
Rampant inflation in Germany caused the mark to drop to an exchange rate of 10,000,000,000 to the pound.
11 October, 1910
Ex-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.
11 October, 1906
San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
11 October, 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.
11 October, 1890
In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
11 October, 1865
Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
11 October, 1864
Campina Grande , Brazil was established as a city.
11 October, 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.
11 October, 1852
The University of Sydney, Australias oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
11 October, 1811
Inventor John Stevens boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
11 October, 1809
Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinders Stand.
11 October, 1776
American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island - On Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.
11 October, 1614
Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
11 October, 1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
11 October, 1531
Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.

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