Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 11

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  Edward John Eyre
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  Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War
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  Apollo 7 crew
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  Apollo 7 launch
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  Meriwether Lewis
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  Huldrych Zwingli
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  Huldrych Zwingli
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  Aftermath of the Myyrmanni bombing
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  Apollo 7 launch
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  Pope John XXIII
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  Nancy Pelosi at the "Great March"
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  Donald Dewar
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  Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney
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  Bashir Template:Nowrap

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Blurb	Reason
General Pulaski Memorial Day in the United States	refimprove
1138 – A massive earthquake, one of the deadliest in recorded history, struck Aleppo, Syria.	refimprove section
1531 – Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in battle when Zürich forces were attacked by Catholic cantons in response to a food blockade being applied by his alliance.	several unreferenced paragraphs
1614 – A group of merchants led by Adriaen Block presented a petition to the States General of the Netherlands to receive exclusive trading privileges for the New Netherland colony.	refimprove section
1634 – A storm tide on the coast of North Frisia caused a massive flood that killed at least 8,000 people and split the island of Strand into three smaller islands.	refimprove
1767 – Unable to go any further, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made their final observations for what would become known as the Mason–Dixon line.	trivia
1809 – American explorer Meriwether Lewis died along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee in an apparent suicide.	refimprove sections (include in the births/deaths when eligible again)
1899 – The Second Boer War erupted in what is now South Africa between the United Kingdom and the Boers.	refimprove section
1941 – Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia attacked Axis-occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National Liberation War of Macedonia.	refimprove
1954 – Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam under the terms of the Geneva Accords which saw the end of the First Indochina War and French colonisation.	refimprove
1962 – Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, the first Roman Catholic ecumenical council in 92 years.	refimprove section
1975 – The American weekly sketch comedy–variety show Saturday Night Live was broadcast for the first time.	Too much uncited
2000 – First Minister of Scotland Donald Dewar (pictured), often regarded as the "Father of the Nation", dies in office from a brain hemorrhage.	Too much uncited
1991 – During the confirmation hearings upon the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States, Anita Hill testified that he had sexually harassed her several years earlier.	Yellow "irrelevant pop culture" banner
Grigory Potemkin |b|1739|	Birthday not cited
Henry J. Heinz |b|1844|	Birthday not cited

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• 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captured eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses at the Battle of Camperdown.
• 1840 – [[Bashir Shihab II|Bashir Template:Nowrap]] (pictured) surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree by Sultan [[Abdülmecid I|Template:Nowrap]].
• 1942 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet sent to attack Henderson Field.
• 1950 – A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use, only for it to be abandoned a year later.
• 1973 – Typhoon Nora, the fourth-most intense tropical cyclone on record, dissipated after killing 40 people and leaving more than a million homeless across Taiwan and the Philippines.

• 1142 – The Treaty of Shaoxing was ratified, ending the Jin–Song wars, although sporadic fighting continued until 1234.
• 1852 – The University of Sydney (pictured), Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated two years after being established by the University of Sydney Act.
• 1865 – The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica; after protestors burned down the courthouse, it was brutally suppressed by Governor Edward John Eyre.
• 1937 – Former British king Edward and his wife arrived at Berlin Friedrichstraße station to begin a tour of Nazi Germany, where they were greeted with Nazi salutes and dined with high-ranking members of the state apparatus.
• 1950 – CBS's field-sequential color system for television was the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
• 1968 – Apollo 7, the first manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, and the first three-man American space mission, launched from Complex 34 in Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• 1987 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began Operation Pawan to take control of Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers and enforce their disarmament as a part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord.
• 2002 – A bomb exploded in the Myyrmanni shopping center in Helsinki, Finland (aftermath pictured), resulting in seven deaths and 159 injuries.

• Born/died: | Edward Colston |d|1721| Maria James |b|1793| Casimir Pulaski |d|1779| María Teresa Ferrari |b|1887| James Kirkham Ramsbottom |b|1891| Lloyd Mathews |d|1901| Douglas Albert Munro |b|1919| Thích Nhất Hạnh |b|1926| Amitabh Bachchan |b|1942| Sawao Katō|b|1946| Dorothea Lange |d|1965| Joe Canning |b|1988| Toby Fox |b|1991| Beni Montresor |d|2001| Alexei Leonov |d|2019| Diane Keaton|d|2025|

Notes

• National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1979) appears on October 14, so Second March should not appear in the same year.

October 11: Feast day of Saint James the Deacon (Anglicanism); National Coming Out Day Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1311 – The peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England published the Ordinances of 1311 to restrict King Edward II's powers.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A British fleet defeated American ships at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, but gave American forces enough time to prepare their defenses for the Saratoga campaign.
• 1890 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded.
• 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan (pictured) became the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• 1987 – An estimated 750,000 people attended the "Great March" in Washington, D.C., to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT community.