1303 Pope Boniface VIII died on October 11, 1303 of a violent fever and kidney stones. He was the first pope to wear the zucchetto, a small skullcap that covers the tonsure. It has since been formally worn by the Pope and his cardinals and bishops down the centuries. Today, he is probably best remembered for his feuds with Dante, who placed him in the Eighth Circle of Hell in his Divina Commedia, among the simonists.
1727 George II and his wife Caroline of Ansbach were crowned King and Queen of Great Britain on October 11, 1727. George was the son of George Louis, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later King George I of Great Britain). When his father died during one of his visits to Hanover, George II succeeded him as English king and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the age of 43. He was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain.
1776 America's first naval battle took place on Lake Champlain near present-day Plattsburgh, New York, on October 11, 1776. The British and American vessels engaged in combat for much of the day, only stopping due to the impending nightfall. After a long day of combat, the American fleet was in worse shape than the experienced British Navy.
1811 The inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begun operation on October 11, 1811 as the first steam-powered ferry. It ran between New York City and his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey. Fourteen years later Stevens designed and built a steam locomotive, which he operated on a circle of track at his Hoboken estate.
1844 Second generation German-American, Henry John Heinz was born on October 11, 1844.
He began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869. There he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began preparing and marketing horseradish. Henry Heinz started manufacturing baked beans in 1895. He advertised them as "oven-baked beans in a pork and tomato sauce."
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 at 56 West 37th Street, New York City, New York. She was born into one of richest and most influential families in New York. Her father was Elliott Roosevelt the brother of Theodore Roosevelt (who later became the 26th president of the United States), and her mother Anna Hall Roosevelt. In 1902 Eleanor was formally introduced to her future husband Franklin Roosevelt on a train to Tivoli, New York when he was a Harvard student.
1910 Theodore Roosevelt became the first American president to fly in an airplane on October 11, 1910. 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.
1932 The first American political telecast took place on October 11, 1932 when the Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS television studio in New York City. The program featured a speech by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was then running for President of the United States.
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| Pope Boniface VIII |
1727 George II and his wife Caroline of Ansbach were crowned King and Queen of Great Britain on October 11, 1727. George was the son of George Louis, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later King George I of Great Britain). When his father died during one of his visits to Hanover, George II succeeded him as English king and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the age of 43. He was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain.
1776 America's first naval battle took place on Lake Champlain near present-day Plattsburgh, New York, on October 11, 1776. The British and American vessels engaged in combat for much of the day, only stopping due to the impending nightfall. After a long day of combat, the American fleet was in worse shape than the experienced British Navy.
1811 The inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begun operation on October 11, 1811 as the first steam-powered ferry. It ran between New York City and his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey. Fourteen years later Stevens designed and built a steam locomotive, which he operated on a circle of track at his Hoboken estate.
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1844 Second generation German-American, Henry John Heinz was born on October 11, 1844.
He began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869. There he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began preparing and marketing horseradish. Henry Heinz started manufacturing baked beans in 1895. He advertised them as "oven-baked beans in a pork and tomato sauce."
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 at 56 West 37th Street, New York City, New York. She was born into one of richest and most influential families in New York. Her father was Elliott Roosevelt the brother of Theodore Roosevelt (who later became the 26th president of the United States), and her mother Anna Hall Roosevelt. In 1902 Eleanor was formally introduced to her future husband Franklin Roosevelt on a train to Tivoli, New York when he was a Harvard student.
1910 Theodore Roosevelt became the first American president to fly in an airplane on October 11, 1910. 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.
1926 Hymie Weiss, a leader of the North Side Gang in Chicago, was a key rival of Al Capone's Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. Weiss orchestrated several attacks on Capone and his associates, and tensions escalated with multiple assassination attempts on both sides. On October 11, 1926, Weiss was gunned down in a hail of bullets in front of the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Although no one was officially charged with his murder, it is widely believed that Capone ordered the hit.
1948 Fidel Castro married Mirta Diaz-Balart on October 11, 1948 in Banes, Cuba. They honeymooned in New York City. They had one child, a son, Fidel Ángel "Fidelito" Castro Díaz-Balart, who was born on September 1, 1949. Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart divorced (while Castro was in exile) in 1955.
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1962 At the Second Vatican Council, which began meeting on October 11, 1962, great movements were set in train. Celebration in Latin was replaced by the use of the local language, relations with other denominations were relaxed, the role of the laity was enhanced, and the pope was made more 'one among equals'. Also evangelization and the reading of the Bible by the laity was encouraged.
1967 On October 11, 1967, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson received an apology from pop group The Move after he sued them for printing a postcard with a caricature of him in the nude. It was to promote their new record, "Flowers In The Rain," which went on to be the first single played on BBC Radio 1.
1967 On October 11, 1967, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson received an apology from pop group The Move after he sued them for printing a postcard with a caricature of him in the nude. It was to promote their new record, "Flowers In The Rain," which went on to be the first single played on BBC Radio 1.
1975 Hillary and Bill Clinton first met when they were classmates at the Yale Law School. They married on October 11, 1975 in the living room of their new home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, when Hillary was working as a faculty member at the Law School of the University of Arkansas. When asked what attracted Hillary to Bill, she replied, “He wasn’t afraid of me.”
1984 Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space when she took a stroll with mission specialist David Leestma on October 11, 1984. Sullivan and Leestma performed a 3.5-hour spacewalk in which they operated a system designed to show that a satellite could be refueled in orbit
1987 On October 11, 1987, an investigation using £1 million worth of sonar equipment failed to find any evidence for the Loch Ness monster. Three sonar contacts were picked up in the week long search but it was believed these were probably salmon. An even bigger search was conducted in 2003 but that time they didn't even find the salmon.
1984 Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space when she took a stroll with mission specialist David Leestma on October 11, 1984. Sullivan and Leestma performed a 3.5-hour spacewalk in which they operated a system designed to show that a satellite could be refueled in orbit
1987 On October 11, 1987, an investigation using £1 million worth of sonar equipment failed to find any evidence for the Loch Ness monster. Three sonar contacts were picked up in the week long search but it was believed these were probably salmon. An even bigger search was conducted in 2003 but that time they didn't even find the salmon.
1991 One of the comedian Redd Foxx signature running gags involved faking a heart attack by putting his hand on his chest and saying "It's the big one, I'm coming to join ya honey/Elizabeth" (referring to his late wife). So when he had a real heart attack on the set of his television show on October 11, 1991, his castmates thought he was trying to be funny. It proved to be fatal and Foxx died later the same day.
2007 The AIDS Memorial Quilt, is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Its first public display was on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 2007. Weighing an estimated 54 tons,
2012 Donald A. Gorske ate his 26,000th Big Mac on October 11, 2012. He has consumed more Big Macs than anyone in the world and claims t constitutes 90-95% of his total solid food intake. Gorske has eaten at one of their outlets (nearly) every single day since May 17, 1972.
2007 The AIDS Memorial Quilt, is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Its first public display was on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 2007. Weighing an estimated 54 tons,
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| The AIDS Quilt |
2012 Donald A. Gorske ate his 26,000th Big Mac on October 11, 2012. He has consumed more Big Macs than anyone in the world and claims t constitutes 90-95% of his total solid food intake. Gorske has eaten at one of their outlets (nearly) every single day since May 17, 1972.
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