Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 11
October 11, 2024 is the 285th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Friday.
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
- 1649 –Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
- 1890 –In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- 1910 –Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
- 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.
- 1972 –A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
- 1984 –Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 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.
- 2001 –The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
- 2002 –A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
Who were born on October 11?
- 1616 –Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
- 1758 –Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
- 1884 –Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian (d. 1962)
- 1930 –LaVell Edwards, American football coach
- 1948 –Cecilia, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 1976)
- 1957 –Dawn French, Welsh comedian,actress and screenwriter
- 1957 –Paul Sereno, American paleontologist
- 1960 –Nicola Bryant, English actress
- 1983 –Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
- 1993 –Sean Murray, Irish footballer
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