Historical Events - October 11

1852 : The University of Sydney, Australia was established.

1968 : NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.

1987 : India’s Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by ending the LTTE occupation.

2000 : NASA launched STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.

2001 : V. S. Naipaul awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

2001 : Polaroid Corporation declared bankruptcy.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 11  

1876: Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer.

1884: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, an American political figure, diplomat and activist.

1902: Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian freedom fighter.

1916: (Chandikadas Amritrao) Nanaji Deshmukh, Padma Vibhushan, Indian social reformer.

1930: Behram Contractor, also known as Busybee, Indian journalist, and columnist.

1932: Suresh Dalal, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Indian-Gujarati poet, writer, and editor.

1942: Amitabh Bachchan, Indian film actor, and producer.

1946: Vijay Bhatkar, Indian scientist, the creator and founder of Param Supercomputer and C-DAC.

1967: Altaf Raja, Indian Qawwali Singer.

1972: Sanjay Banger, Indian cricketer, and coach.

1993: Hardik Pandya, Indian cricketer.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 11

1809: Meriwether Lewis, an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator.

1889: James Prescott Joule, a British physicist who proposed the theory of energy transition.

1938: Baji Rout, the youngest Indian freedom fighter and martyr.

1968: Manik Bandoji Ingle (Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj), a spiritual saint from Maharashtra, India.

1994: Kakasaheb Dandekar, Indian industrialist, founder of Camlin Industries.

1996: William Spencer Vickrey, Canadian-born professor of economics, and Nobel Laureate.

1997: Vipul Kanti Saha, internationally renowned sculptor.

2000: Donald Dewar, Scotland’s first minister.

2007: Chinmoy Kumar Ghosh (Shri Chinmoy), Indian spiritual guru.

2019: Robert Forster, an American actor. 

2019: Alexei Leonov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, and the first human to conduct a spacewalk.