October 11
1779 - Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah.
1809 - Just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.
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.
1905 - The Juilliard School was founded as the Institute of Musical Art in New York City.
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 (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
1910 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis.
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.
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" debuted on NBC.
1983 - The last full-fledged hand-cranked telephone system in the United States went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial service.
1984 - Space shuttle Challenger 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 military force against Iraq.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1970s Middle East diplomacy.
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-Qaeda. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in January 2015.)
2010 - Rescuers in Chile finished reinforcing a hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and sent a rescue capsule nearly all the way to where the men were trapped, proving the escape route worked.
2014 - Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York's Kennedy International Airport from three West African nations in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2015 - In an interview that aired on "60 Minutes", President Barack Obama said that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct government business when she served as secretary of state was a mistake but didn't endanger national security.
2019 - Testifying in defiance of a White House ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump had pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of the country; she’d been recalled from Ukraine as Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate corruption allegations against the Bidens.
2019 - Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who had angered many of the network's conservative viewers by frequently giving tough reports debunking statements made by Trump and his supporters, abruptly quit after signing off his final newscast.
Birthdays
24 - Rhea Ripley (professional wrestler)
26 - Hayley Erbert (dancer)
26 - TJ Watt (football player)
27 - Brandon Flynn (actor)
28 - Cardi B (rapper)
31 - Michelle Wie (golfer)
34 - Lucy Griffiths (actress)
35 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)
40 - Robert Christopher Riley (actor)
42 - Trevor Donovan (actor)
43 - Matt Bomer (actor)
44 - Emily Deschanel (actress)
45 - NeeNa Lee (singer)
46 - Darien Sills-Evans (actor)
50 - Constance Zimmer (actress)
51 - Andrea Navedo (actress)
52 - Jane Krakowski (actress)
53 - Artie Lange (actor/comedian)
55 - Chris Spielman (football player)
55 - Rikishi (professional wrestler)
55 - Lennie James (actor)
55 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor)
56 - Michael J. Nelson (actor/TV host)
58 - Joan Cusack (actress)
59 - Steve Young (football player)
63 - Dawn French (actress/comedian)
64 - Stephen Spinella (actor)
67 - David Morse (actor)
68 - Mark Goodman (MTV VJ)
69 - Paulette Carlson (country singer)
70 - Catlin Adams (actress)
74 - Daryl Hall (singer)
77 - Gene Watson (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 11
1895 - Nebraska defeats Denver Athletic Club 12-4.
1907 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 8-5.
1911 - Ty Cobb (American League) and Frank Schulte (National League) are named the inaugural MLB MVP's; each was awarded a car as a prize.
1912 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 13-0.
1913 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the New York Giants in five games to win the World Series.
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 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1935 - Nebraska and Kansas State plays to a 0-0 tie.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 53-2.
1943 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win their 10th World Series.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-14.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves in six games to win the World Series.
1957 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 26-9.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 28-6.
1968 - #20 Missouri defeats #13 Nebraska 16-14.
1974 - #12 Nebraska defeats #13 Kansas 56-0.
1980 - The Dallas Mavericks make their NBA debut with a 103-92 win over the San Antonio Spurs.
1984 - Mario Lemieux made his NHL debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1985 - #7 Nebraska defeats Missouri 28-20.
1991 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-31.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 24-10.
1998 - Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers became the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards in a career.
2002 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 24-21.
2004 - The Houston Astros won a postseason series for the first time in the franchise's 43-year history, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.
2006 - In New York City, Cory Lidle of the New York Yankees and his flight instructor were killed when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building.
1779 - Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah.
1809 - Just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.
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.
1905 - The Juilliard School was founded as the Institute of Musical Art in New York City.
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.)
1910 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis.
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.
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" debuted on NBC.
1983 - The last full-fledged hand-cranked telephone system in the United States went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial service.
1984 - Space shuttle Challenger 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 military force against Iraq.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1970s Middle East diplomacy.
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-Qaeda. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in January 2015.)
2010 - Rescuers in Chile finished reinforcing a hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and sent a rescue capsule nearly all the way to where the men were trapped, proving the escape route worked.
2014 - Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York's Kennedy International Airport from three West African nations in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2015 - In an interview that aired on "60 Minutes", President Barack Obama said that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct government business when she served as secretary of state was a mistake but didn't endanger national security.
2019 - Testifying in defiance of a White House ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump had pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of the country; she’d been recalled from Ukraine as Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate corruption allegations against the Bidens.
2019 - Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who had angered many of the network's conservative viewers by frequently giving tough reports debunking statements made by Trump and his supporters, abruptly quit after signing off his final newscast.
Birthdays
24 - Rhea Ripley (professional wrestler)
26 - Hayley Erbert (dancer)
26 - TJ Watt (football player)
27 - Brandon Flynn (actor)
28 - Cardi B (rapper)
31 - Michelle Wie (golfer)
34 - Lucy Griffiths (actress)
35 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)
40 - Robert Christopher Riley (actor)
42 - Trevor Donovan (actor)
43 - Matt Bomer (actor)
44 - Emily Deschanel (actress)
45 - NeeNa Lee (singer)
46 - Darien Sills-Evans (actor)
50 - Constance Zimmer (actress)
51 - Andrea Navedo (actress)
52 - Jane Krakowski (actress)
53 - Artie Lange (actor/comedian)
55 - Chris Spielman (football player)
55 - Rikishi (professional wrestler)
55 - Lennie James (actor)
55 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor)
56 - Michael J. Nelson (actor/TV host)
58 - Joan Cusack (actress)
59 - Steve Young (football player)
63 - Dawn French (actress/comedian)
64 - Stephen Spinella (actor)
67 - David Morse (actor)
68 - Mark Goodman (MTV VJ)
69 - Paulette Carlson (country singer)
70 - Catlin Adams (actress)
74 - Daryl Hall (singer)
77 - Gene Watson (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 11
1895 - Nebraska defeats Denver Athletic Club 12-4.
1907 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 8-5.
1911 - Ty Cobb (American League) and Frank Schulte (National League) are named the inaugural MLB MVP's; each was awarded a car as a prize.
1912 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 13-0.
1913 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the New York Giants in five games to win the World Series.
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 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1935 - Nebraska and Kansas State plays to a 0-0 tie.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 53-2.
1943 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win their 10th World Series.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-14.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves in six games to win the World Series.
1957 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 26-9.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 28-6.
1968 - #20 Missouri defeats #13 Nebraska 16-14.
1974 - #12 Nebraska defeats #13 Kansas 56-0.
1980 - The Dallas Mavericks make their NBA debut with a 103-92 win over the San Antonio Spurs.
1984 - Mario Lemieux made his NHL debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1985 - #7 Nebraska defeats Missouri 28-20.
1991 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-31.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 24-10.
1998 - Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers became the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards in a career.
2002 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 24-21.
2004 - The Houston Astros won a postseason series for the first time in the franchise's 43-year history, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.
2006 - In New York City, Cory Lidle of the New York Yankees and his flight instructor were killed when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building.
