Oct 11th

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 11:

1782 Steen Steensen Blicher Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
1821 Sir George Williams England, founder YMCA
1844 Henry John Heinz founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
1872 Harlan Fiske Stone NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt 1st lady/crusader
1885 Fran‡ois Mauriac France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)
1896 Roman Jakobson linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
1897 Gen Nathan F Twining USAF (Neither Liberty nor Safety)
1897 George Preston Marshall NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
19-- Bill Randolph Detroit Mich, actor (Comedy Zone, Trauma Center)
19-- Brad Maule actor (Dr Tony Jones-General Hospital)
19-- Gail Brown actress (Another World)
19-- Mark Goodman vee-jay (MTV)
1900 Cal Hubbard NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
1902 Leon Belasco Odessa Russia, actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen)
1906 Earl "Dutch" Clark Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
1910 Joseph Alsop political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
1914 Edward J Day US Postmaster General (1961)
1918 Jerome Robbins choreographer/composer (Tony-West Side Story)
1919 Art Blakey Pitts Pa, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band)
1925 Elmore Leonard American writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk)
1925 Nancy Guild LA Calif, actress (Where Was I?)
1930 Harry Glass German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956)
1932 Dottie West Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1936 Charles Gordon Fullerton Roch, USAF/ast (STS T-1, T-3, T-5, 3, 51F)
1937 Ron Leibman NYC, actor (Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty & Beast)
1943 Gene Watson country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
1944 Rodney Marsh athlete
1946 Felton Perry actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death)
1946 Sawao Kato Japan, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1948 Daryl Hall rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
1950 Catlin Adams LA Calif, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs)
1953 David Morse Beverly Mass, actor (St Elsewhere, House, Inside Moves)
1962 Joan Cusack Evanston Ill, comedienne (SNL)
1962 Leslie Landon LA Calif, actress (Etta Plum-Little House on Prairie)
1969 Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1971 Luke Perry Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210)
1975 Kellie Martin actress (Life Goes On)

Deaths which occurred on October 11:

1779 General Casimir Pulaski dies
1809 Meriwether Lewis capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 35
1959 Bert Bell NFL hall of famer, dies at 64
1961 Leonard "Chico" Marx (Marx Brothers), dies at 74
1977 Dr Mason Gross professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66
1985 Orson Welles dies at 70 of a heart attack
1985 Tex Williams country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
1986 Norm Cash 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at 51
1988 Waylon Flowers puppeteer, dies at 48
1990 Douglas Edwards WW II correspondant, dies of cancer at 73
1991 Redd Foxx comedian, dies at 68 from a heart attack

On this day...

1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys « of Calcutta India
1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands
1811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1864 Slavery abolished in Maryland
1865 Pres Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
1890 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
1913 Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
1919 1st transcontinental air race ends
1922 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1923 German mark falls to 10 billion per œ, 4 billion per $
1925 NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
1927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP
1932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1936 "Professor Quiz", 1st radio quiz show premieres
1943 NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, 10th WS win - NY Yankees become 1st team to win 10 World Series
1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1948 Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
1958 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m
1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show
1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 Panama revolts
1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)
1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her
1991 Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59

Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Panama, Panama Canal Zone : Revolution Day (1968)
Sri Lanka : Deepavali
US : General Pulaski Memorial Day (1779)
Western Samoa : National Day
Western Samoa : White Sunday (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Canada : Thanksgiving Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Florida : Farmers' Day (1915) - - - - - ( Monday )
Hawaii : Discoverer's Day - - - - - ( Monday )
US : Columbus Day (1492) - - - - - ( Monday )
Virgin Is & Puerto Rico : Friendship Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious History

1521 Leo X conferred the title "Fidei Defensor" (Defender of the Faith) upon England's Henry VIII. Three popes and 13 years later, Henry severed all ties with Rome to establish the Church of England.
1551 The 13th Session of the Council of Trent opened, during which major decisions were reached regarding the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist.
1895 Birth of Avis B. Christiansen, devotional author. One of the most prolific hymnwriters of the 20th century, two of her most enduring hymns today are "Up Calvary's Mountain" and "Precious Hiding Place."
1914 During World War I, the Cathedral of Notre Dame suffered minor damage during an air raid on Paris. (Notre Dame, the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages, is distinguished for both its size and antiquity.)
1954 Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.

Thought for the day :

" The orator speaks, with his flood of words and his drop of reason. "