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Day Of The Week: October 11
October 11, 2025 is the 284th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 11
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1634 –The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
- 1852 –The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
- 1862 –American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
- 1899 –Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
- 1929 –JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
- 1957 –Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I’s booster rocket’s orbit.
- 1968 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
- 1986 –Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
- 1987 –Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.
Who were born on October 11?
- 1788 –Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
- 1905 –Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
- 1926 –Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales
- 1927 –Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
- 1930 –LaVell Edwards, American football coach
- 1930 –Sam Johnson, American politician
- 1932 –Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)
- 1959 –Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver
- 1973 –Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
- 1977 –Desmond Mason, American basketball player
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