October 11
1779 - Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah.
1811 - The first steam-powered ferryboat was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa.
1906 - The San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students segregated in a purely “Oriental” school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
1915 - English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans during World War I.
1939 - A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.
1958 - The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1962 - The first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II, was convened by Pope John XXIII.
1968 - The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1968 - The government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup.
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" debuted on NBC.
1984 - Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1986 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks on arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991 - Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998 - Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2001 - In his first prime-time news conference since taking office, President George W. Bush said “it may take a year or two” to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but he asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, “we’ve got them on the run.”
2002 - The Senate joined the House in approving the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1970s Middle East diplomacy.
2005 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it had finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
2006 - The charge of treason was used for the first time in the U.S. war on terrorism, filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, also known as “Azzam the American,” who’d appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaida. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in Jan. 2015.)
2011 - Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate in Hanover, New Hampshire, defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with “good” Democrats.
2014 - Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2016 - Samsung Electronics said it was stopping production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after halting global sales of the ill-fated devices amid reports that batteries were catching fire.
2020 - President Donald Trump declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail after treatment for the coronavirus.
Birthdays
26 - John Luke Robertson (reality star)
27 - Hayley Erbert (dancer)
27 - T.J. Watt (football player)
29 - Cardi B (rapper)
32 - Michelle Wie (golfer)
35 - Lucy Griffiths (actress)
36 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)
41 - Robert Christopher Riley (actor)
43 - Trevor Donovan (acto)
44 - Matt Bomer (actor)
45 - Emily Deschanel (actress)
46 - Nat Faxon (actor)
47 - Darien Sills-Evans (actor)
51 - Constance Zimmer (actress)
52 - Andrea Navedo (actress)
53 - Jane Krakowski (actress)
54 - Artie Lange (actor/comedian)
55 - Todd Snider (country singer)
56 - Rikishi (professional wrestler)
56 - Chris Spielman (football player/sportscaster)
56 - Lennie James (actor)
56 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor)
57 - Michael J. Nelson (TV host/comedian)
59 - Joan Cusack (actress)
60 - Steve Young (football player)
64 - Dawn French (actress/comedian)
65 - Stephen Spinella (actor)
68 - David Morse (actor)
69 - Mark Goodman (MTV VJ)
70 - Paulette Carlson (country singer)
71 - Catlin Adams (actress)
75 - Daryl Hall (singer)
78 - Gene Watson (country siner)
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Today in Sports History - October 11
1895 - Nebraska opened the season with a 38-0 win over Sioux City Athletic Club.
1901 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 30-4.
1912 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 30-6.
1913 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the New York Giants to win their third World Series in the past 10 years.
1924 - The Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons were granted NHL franchises.
1925 - The New York Giants played their first NFL game, losing to Providence 14-0.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 13-6.
1935 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Indiana 13-7.
1943 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win their 10th World Series.
1946 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves in six games to win the World Series.
1957 - #20 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 34-0.
1963 - Air Force defeats Nebraska 17-13.
1968 - #6 Kansas defeats #9 Nebraska 23-13.
1974 - Missouri upsets #5 Nebraska 21-10.
1980 - The Dallas Mavericks win their NBA debut game with a 103-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1985 - #9 Nebraska defeats #5 Oklahoma State 34-24.
1991 - #14 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 49-15.
1992 - Deion Sanders plays for both the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Falcons on the same day.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-0.
1998 - Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) became the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards.
2002 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-13.
2004 - The Houston Astros won a postseason series for the first time in their 43 year history. They defeated the Atlanta Braves 12-3 in Game 5. The Astros had lost 7 playoff series previously, three of them to Atlanta.
2006 - In New York, Cory Lidle (New York Yankees) and his flight instructor were killed when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 44-7.
2019 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 34-7.
2020 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games to win the NBA Finals.
2020 - Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic to win the French Open, and in doing so, won his 20th Grand Slam individual title, tying Roger Federer's record for most tennis major championships by a man.
2020 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan died at age 77.
1779 - Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah.
1811 - The first steam-powered ferryboat was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa.
1906 - The San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students segregated in a purely “Oriental” school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
1915 - English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans during World War I.
1939 - A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.
1958 - The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1962 - The first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II, was convened by Pope John XXIII.
1968 - The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1968 - The government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup.
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" debuted on NBC.
1984 - Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1986 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks on arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991 - Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998 - Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2001 - In his first prime-time news conference since taking office, President George W. Bush said “it may take a year or two” to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but he asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, “we’ve got them on the run.”
2002 - The Senate joined the House in approving the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1970s Middle East diplomacy.
2005 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it had finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
2006 - The charge of treason was used for the first time in the U.S. war on terrorism, filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, also known as “Azzam the American,” who’d appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaida. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in Jan. 2015.)
2011 - Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate in Hanover, New Hampshire, defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with “good” Democrats.
2014 - Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2016 - Samsung Electronics said it was stopping production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after halting global sales of the ill-fated devices amid reports that batteries were catching fire.
2020 - President Donald Trump declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail after treatment for the coronavirus.
Birthdays
26 - John Luke Robertson (reality star)
27 - Hayley Erbert (dancer)
27 - T.J. Watt (football player)
29 - Cardi B (rapper)
32 - Michelle Wie (golfer)
35 - Lucy Griffiths (actress)
36 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)
41 - Robert Christopher Riley (actor)
43 - Trevor Donovan (acto)
44 - Matt Bomer (actor)
45 - Emily Deschanel (actress)
46 - Nat Faxon (actor)
47 - Darien Sills-Evans (actor)
51 - Constance Zimmer (actress)
52 - Andrea Navedo (actress)
53 - Jane Krakowski (actress)
54 - Artie Lange (actor/comedian)
55 - Todd Snider (country singer)
56 - Rikishi (professional wrestler)
56 - Chris Spielman (football player/sportscaster)
56 - Lennie James (actor)
56 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor)
57 - Michael J. Nelson (TV host/comedian)
59 - Joan Cusack (actress)
60 - Steve Young (football player)
64 - Dawn French (actress/comedian)
65 - Stephen Spinella (actor)
68 - David Morse (actor)
69 - Mark Goodman (MTV VJ)
70 - Paulette Carlson (country singer)
71 - Catlin Adams (actress)
75 - Daryl Hall (singer)
78 - Gene Watson (country siner)
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Today in Sports History - October 11
1895 - Nebraska opened the season with a 38-0 win over Sioux City Athletic Club.
1901 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 30-4.
1912 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 30-6.
1913 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the New York Giants to win their third World Series in the past 10 years.
1924 - The Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons were granted NHL franchises.
1925 - The New York Giants played their first NFL game, losing to Providence 14-0.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 13-6.
1935 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Indiana 13-7.
1943 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win their 10th World Series.
1946 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves in six games to win the World Series.
1957 - #20 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 34-0.
1963 - Air Force defeats Nebraska 17-13.
1968 - #6 Kansas defeats #9 Nebraska 23-13.
1974 - Missouri upsets #5 Nebraska 21-10.
1980 - The Dallas Mavericks win their NBA debut game with a 103-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1985 - #9 Nebraska defeats #5 Oklahoma State 34-24.
1991 - #14 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 49-15.
1992 - Deion Sanders plays for both the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Falcons on the same day.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-0.
1998 - Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) became the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards.
2002 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-13.
2004 - The Houston Astros won a postseason series for the first time in their 43 year history. They defeated the Atlanta Braves 12-3 in Game 5. The Astros had lost 7 playoff series previously, three of them to Atlanta.
2006 - In New York, Cory Lidle (New York Yankees) and his flight instructor were killed when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 44-7.
2019 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 34-7.
2020 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games to win the NBA Finals.
2020 - Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic to win the French Open, and in doing so, won his 20th Grand Slam individual title, tying Roger Federer's record for most tennis major championships by a man.
2020 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan died at age 77.
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