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Today in history
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Today, October 11
Notable events
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2002 | A bomb exploded in the Myyrmanni shopping center in Helsinki, Finland (aftermath pictured), resulting in seven deaths and 159 injuries. Myyrmanni bombing |
| 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. Sri Lankan civil war |
| 1987 | An estimated 750,000 people attended the "Great March" in Washington, D.C., to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT community. Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights |
| 1984 | Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a space walk. Space Shuttle Challenger |
| 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. Typhoon Nora (1973) |
| 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. Apollo 7 |
| 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. Hungarian Americans |
Births
| Year | Who |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Maja Chwalińska, Polish tennis player Maja Chwalińska |
| 2001 | Jacob Preston, Australian rugby league player Jacob Preston (rugby league) |
| 1999 | Leicester Fainga'anuku, New Zealand rugby union player Leicester Faingaʻanuku |
Deaths
| Year | Who |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Diane Keaton, American actress (born 1946) Diane Keaton |
| 2022 | Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer (born 1925) Angela Lansbury |
| 2019 | Alexei Leonov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and first human to conduct a spacewalk (born 1934) Alexei Leonov |
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This page curates the day's anniversaries for October 11 from Wikipedia, delivered through the Wikimedia "On this day" feed (the encyclopedia's own open dataset). It is not original research: the facts, years and wording come from Wikipedia and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 4.0), which requires crediting the source and keeping the same license. We pick each day's most relevant items, favouring the editors' own selection and the most prominent articles, and every row links back to the matching entry. For the full list and primary references, see the day's article on Wikipedia (October 11).
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