Friday October 11, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

October 11: Day of the Week

October 11, 2024 is the 285th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

October 11 Historical Event(s)

1614
Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634
The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1767
Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1811
Inventor John Stevens’ boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
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.
1912
First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
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.
1976
George Washington’s appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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?

1884
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian (d. 1962)
1928
Roscoe Robinson, Jr., first African American four-star Army general (d. 1993)
1952
Paulette Carlson, country music singer-songwriter
1957
Paul Sereno, American paleontologist
1962
Andy McCoy, Finnish musician Hanoi Rocks
1965
Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1974
Jamie Thomas, American skateboarder
1974
Rachel Barton Pine, violinist from Chicago
1982
Jeff Larish, American Baseball Player
1983
Bradley James, British actor

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