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by n11pilot » Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:21 am
1138 - Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000.
1634 - Burchardi flood - "the second Grote Mandrenke" kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India. Mother Nature must really hate 11 OCT.
1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses.
1797 - Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): British navy defeats Dutch fleet.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City, NY, and Hoboken, NJ.
1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.
1945 - Chinese civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party.
1958 - Pioneer 1, a lunar probe, was launched by the U.S. The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.
1986 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland.