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| Blurb | Reason |
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| General Pulaski Memorial Day in the United States | refimprove |
| 1138 – A massive earthquake, one of the deadliest in recorded history, struck Aleppo, Syria. | refimprove section |
| 1614 – A group of merchants led by Adriaen Block presented a petition to the States General of the Netherlands to receive exclusive trading privileges for the New Netherland colony. | refimprove section |
| 1634 – A storm tide on the coast of North Frisia caused a massive flood that killed at least 8,000 people and split the island of Strand into three smaller islands. | refimprove |
| 1767 – Unable to go any further, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made their final observations for what would become known as the Mason–Dixon line. | refimprove |
| 1809 – American explorer Meriwether Lewis died along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee in an apparent suicide. | unreferenced section (include in the births/deaths when eligible again) |
| 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated in Sydney two years after the New South Wales Legislative Council established it with the passage of the University of Sydney Act. | unreferenced section |
| 1865 – The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica, but eventually it was brutally suppressed by Governor Edward John Eyre. | neutrality issues |
| 1899 – The Second Boer War erupted in what is now South Africa between the United Kingdom and the Boers. | refimprove section |
| 1941 – Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia attacked Axis-occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National Liberation War of Macedonia. | refimprove |
| 1954 – Ho Chi Minh and the Việt Minh took control of North Vietnam under the terms of the Geneva Accords which saw the end of the First Indochina War and French colonisation. | refimprove |
| 1962 – Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, the first Roman Catholic ecumenical council in 92 years. | refimprove section |
| 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 Canaveral, Florida. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1142 – The Treaty of Shaoxing, ending the Jin–Song Wars, was formally ratified when a Jin envoy visited the Southern Song court.
- 1311 – The peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England imposed the Ordinances of 1311 to restrict King Edward II's powers.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British Royal Navy defeated American ships at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, but gave American forces enough time to prepare their defenses for the Saratoga campaign.
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captured eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses in the Battle of Camperdown.
- 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, but it was abandoned only a year later.
- 1975 – The American weekly sketch comedy–variety show Saturday Night Live was broadcast for the first time.
- Born/died: Henry J. Heinz (b. 1844) ·
Notes
- Christopher Columbus appears on October 12, so 1492 light sighting should not appear in the same year.
October 11: National Coming Out Day (international)
- 1492 – Members of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus reported the sighting of unknown light on their way to Guanahani.
- 1531 – Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli (pictured) was killed in battle when Catholic cantons attacked in response to a food blockade being applied by his alliance.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet sent to attack Henderson Field.
- 1987 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began Operation Pawan to take control of Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers to enforce their disarmament as a part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord.
Casimir Pulaski (d. 1779) · María Teresa Ferrari (b. 1887) · Thích Nhất Hạnh (b. 1926)