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