The October 11th is the 284e Jour of the Année (285e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 81 days before the end of the year.
Events
1 to 1900
20th century
XXIe century
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2002 :
- the old US president Jimmy Carter receives the Nobel Prize of peace for its diplomatic action since many years in favor of peace and the human rights.
- a resolution adopted by the American Congress authorizes president George W. Bush to be resorted to the force, if necessary, against Iraq of Saddam Hussein Iraq which however assures all of peace by accepting the return, without conditions, of the inspectors in disarmament of UNO.
- a shopping mall of Helsinki, Finland, is shaken by an handmade bomb which kills 7 people whose its author, a student in chemistry and wounds of them 80.
- 2003: The Dalai Lama gives conference series to the general sports Palais of Paris-Bercy, where it makes full house during one week.
- 2005 : In Spain the tropical storm Vince touches ground close to Huelva, becoming thus the first tropical Cyclone to strike the Iberian peninsula.
Births
- 1741 : James Barry, British painter
- 1758: Heinrich Olbers, astronomer.
- 1844 : Henry John Heinz, founder of a food “and creative company of famous Ketchup Heinz”.
- 1874 : William Styles, gunner, Olympic champion with the rifle small gauge on reducing targets in 1908.
- 1884 : Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius, chemist, Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1931.
- 1884 : Eleanor Roosevelt, author and activist social
- 1885
- 1887 : Pierre Jean Jouve, poet and novelist French
- 1892: Luigi Maiocco, gymnaste, Olympic champion of the open competition by team in 1912, 1920 and 1924.
- 1902 : Bruno Mueller, Olympic champion of oar “two without cox” in 1928.
- 1903 : Kazimierz Kordylewski, astronomer Polish (death March 11th 1981)
- 1911: Juan Zabala, athlete, Olympic champion of the marathon in 1932.
- 1917 : John Acea, pianist of American jazz
- 1924: Malvin Whitfield, athlete, Olympic champion of the 800 m and the 4 X.400 m in 1948, of the 800 m in 1952.
- 1928 : Ennio Morricone, type-setter of film music
- 1936: C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut
- 1938: Darrall Imhoff, member of the team of Basketball Olympic champion in 1960.
- 1939
- Ménard Michel, " dead end of the miracles" in Surgères
- Bernd Culmann, athlete Olympic champion of 4 X 100 m in 1960.
- Maria Bueno, tenniswoman.
- 1940 : Christoph Blocher, industrialist and Swiss politician.
- 1942 : Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor.
- 1943 : Ted Robert, Swiss composer-songwriter.
- 1951 : Jean-Jacques Goldman, song writer and performer French.
- 1970 : U-God, American rappor
- 1973: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese actor.
- 1983 : Ruslan Ponomariov, world champion of failures.
Death
- 1188 : Robert Ier de Dreux
- 1294: Conrad II of Czersk
- 1304: Conrad II Uneven the, duke of Żagań.
- 1531 : Ulrich Zwingli, reforming Swiss monk (° January 1st 1484)
- 1550 :
- Olivier of Chastel, abbot of Daoulas of 1535 with 1550
- Georg Pencz, painter, draftsman and German engraver (° 1500/02)
- 1779: Kazimierz Pułaski, “father of the American cavalry” (° March 4th 1745).
- 1790 : Marmaduke Tunstall, Ornithologist and British Collection nor (° 1743)
- 1915: Edith Cavell, nurse British It helped the prisoners combined to escape by the Netherlands
- 1915: Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist.
- 1940 : Vito Volterra, 80 years, Mathematician and Physicist Italy N. (° May 3rd 1860).
- 1953 : Morenito of Valencia (Aurelio Puchol Aldas), Spanish Matador (° March 26th 1914)
- 1963 :
- Edith Piaf, singer (her death is announced this day with Paris, but she would have died the day before, in convalescence with Grasse)
- Jean Cocteau, poet, novelist, scenario writer and director French (° July 5th 1889)
- 1982: Jean Effel, draftsman French
- 1986: Georges Dumézil, Philologist, French academician (armchair 40)
- 2003:
- Driven Qing, journalist Chinese
- Jean Chub, scenario writer Québécois
- 2004: Maxime Faget, engineer of NASA
- 2006: Jacques Sternberg, Franco-Belgian author of Science fiction (° April 17th 1923)
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
See too
Beats-smg: Spalė 11
Be-X-old: 11 кастрычніка
Fiu-vro: 11. rehekuu päiv
Nds-nl: 11 oktober
Simple: October 11
Zh-yue: 10 月 11 號