TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2016
Today is Tuesday, October 11, the 285th day of 2016. There are 81 days left in the year.
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)
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 2― nd 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