This day in #History

This day in #History
October 11th


1687 - Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty

1689 - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia


1811 - The Juliana , 1st steam-powered ferryboat,
begins operation

1852 - The University of Sydney , Australia 's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland

1864 - Campina Grande , Brazil was established as a city.

1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1 st invention :
electric voice machine

1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished
after 3 days , 300 killed

1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras

1887 - A Miles patents elevator

1890 - Daughters of American Revolution founded

1895 - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws
against Italians

1899 - South African Boers declare war on Great
Britain

932 - Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of
Communist Party

1936 - " Professor Quiz," 1 st radio quiz show
premieres

1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb

1944 - Tuvinian People' s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U. S. S. R

1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse -Tung

1947 - Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR


1958 - 2 nd US Moon probe , Pioneer 1 , reaches
113 ,810 km , falls back


1968 - Panama revolts

1971 - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam

1972 - Panama adopts constitution

1976 - Mao Tse -Tung 's widow Jiang Qing & " Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup

1978 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama

1978 - Belgium government of Tindemans resigns

1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan

1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum


1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature

2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer , wins
the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature



FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay


1963 - Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan




FAMOUS DEATHS


1779 - Casimir Pułaski , Polish born fighter for
American independence (b . 1745 ) dies in Battle of Savannah.


1850 - Louisa Maria , queen of Belgium ( 1832- 50)/ wife of Leopold I , dies at 38

1971 - Chesty Puller , the most decorated Marine in history ( b. 1898 )