What Happened on Oct 11

Battle of Valcour Island

Carleton's fleet, commanded by Captain Thomas Pringle, which included 50 unarmed support vessels, sailed onto Lake Champlain on October 9. Moving... Read more

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Is Born

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884. Orphaned by the time she was ten, the young niece of President Theodore... Read more

Bulgaria Declares War on Serbia

Bulgaria threw off the mask of neutrality on October 11, 1915, declaring war against Serbia on the pretext that the Serbians had crossed the... Read more

Serbian Campaign

The Serbians, while defending themselves so valiantly against their foes, had been buoyed up by the hope that the French and English would come to... Read more

Gangster Hymie Weiss killed by Capone's Mob

Hymie Weiss was suspected of having formed an alliance with South Side beer baron Joe Saltis, who went on trial for murder in October 1926. It was... Read more

Bonnie and Clyde Kill Their Second Victim

On August 5, 1932, while Parker was visiting her mother, Barrow, Hamilton and Everett Milligan were drinking alcohol at a country dance in... Read more

"Laura" Is Released

Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based... Read more

'To Have and Have Not' Premieres In New York

Although Howard Hawks had a high regard for Hemingway's works in general, he considered To Have and Have Not his worst book, a "bunch of junk," and... Read more

Fidel Castro marries Mirta Diaz-Balart

By his first wife Mirta Díaz-Balart, whom he married on October 11, 1948, Castro has a son named Fidel Ángel "Fidelito" Castro Díaz-Balart, born on... Read more

"Oklahoma!" Is Released

The 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein),... Read more

President Kennedy Issues NSAM 263, Ordering the Withdrawl of 1,000 Military Personnel from Vietnam by the End of 1963

Kennedy increased the number of U.S. military in Vietnam from 800 to 16,300. It remains a point of some controversy among historians whether or not... Read more

State Department Announces Recent Release of Two Russian Spies in Exchange for Two Americans

[Marvin Makinen] completed the fourth year of his undergraduate education at the Free University of Berlin as an exchange student from the... Read more

Dorothea Lange Dies

On October 11, 1965, photographer Dorothea Lange died in San Francisco at the age of seventy. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for... Read more

First Reported Sighting of the "Grinning Man"

The Grinning Man is a name given to a mysterious creature that has been reported in various areas over the last century. He is believed to... Read more

Apollo 7 Mission

Apollo 7 (October 11-22, 1968) was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission, the... Read more

1969 World Series

The 1969 World Series was played between the New York Mets and the Baltimore Orioles, with the Mets prevailing in five games to accomplish one of... Read more

Pascagoula Abduction

By Sunday night the news people had left Pascagoula. Dr. Hynek was on his way back to Chicago, Dr. Harder to Berkeley. By then, the entire country... Read more

Bill Clinton Marries Hillary Rodham

After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1973. While at Yale, he began dating law student... Read more

SNL Season 1 Ep. 1 - George Carlin

Fun Facts: During the opening credits, announcer Don Pardo flubbed the first-ever mention of the regular cast as "the Not For Ready Prime Time... Read more

Deep Purple release Made in Europe

Made in Europe is a live album released by Deep Purple, recorded on the final dates in 1975 on which Ritchie Blackmore was a member of Deep Purple.... Read more

1977 World Series

After an embarrassing sweep by baseball's newest dynasty, the Cincinnati Reds, the American League champion New York Yankees returned to the Fall... Read more

"My Dinner With Andre" Is Released

My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 film starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, written by Gregory and Shawn, and directed by Louis Malle. The... Read more

1983 World Series

The 1983 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles against the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies, with the... Read more

Runway Collision Causes Explosion of Aeroflot Flight 3352

Flight 3352 as approaching Omsk in poor weather; light rain, visibility 2 miles, 300 feet ceiling. Landing lights were switched off as they caused... Read more

"House Of Games" Is Released

House of Games is David Mamet's 1987 motion picture directorial debut. It is a film of many plot twists, that fans charge is best enjoyed by... Read more