11 October

The **11t o October** is the 284t day o the year (285t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 81 days bidin.

## Events

* 1138 - A major yirdquauk hits the Sirie ceety o Aleppo.
* 1634 - A flood o the North Sea kills ower 10,000 fowk.
* 1737 - A yirdquauk in Kolkata kills ower 300,000 fowk.
* 1767 - Surveyin o the Mason-Dixon Line, on the mairch o Pennsylvanie an Maryland, is completit.
* 1852 - The Varsity o Sydney stairts admittin students.
* 1949 - Wilhelm Pieck is electit Preses o East Germany.
* 1963 - Konrad Adenauer resigns as Chancellor o Wast Germany.
* 1968 - First manned Apollo space flicht, with Apollo 7.
* 1982 - The remains o Henry VIII's ship the "Mary Rose" are salvaged aff Portsmouth.
* 1984 - An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 plane crashes in Omsk, Siberie, Roushie, killin 178 fowk.
* 1986 - Ronald Reagan an Mikhail Gorbachev meet for talks in Reykjavik, Iceland.
* 2000 - The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on the 100t Space Shuttle flicht.
* 2000 - Daith o Donald Dewar, 1st First Meenister o Scotland, agit 63.
* 2002 - Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 2007 - Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 2012 - The Unitit Naitions holds the first International Day o the Girl Child.
* 2014 - Charles Michel becomes Prime meenister o Belgium.
* 2019 - Prime meenister o Ethiopie Abiy Ahmed wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

## Births

* 1671 - Frederick IV o Denmark (d. 1730)
* 1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German medicinar an astronomer (d. 1840)
* 1872 - Emily Davison, Inglis suffragette (d. 1913)
* 1880 - Jimmy McMenemy, Scots fitbawer (d. 1965)
* 1880 - Jimmy Sharp, Scots fitbawer (d. 1949)
* 1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (d. 1949)
* 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American activist an First Lady (d. 1962)
* 1885 - François Mauriac, French writer (d. 1970)
* 1925 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
* 1930 - Ronnie Simpson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2004)
* 1937 - Bobby Charlton, Inglis fitbawer
* 1942 - Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, sangster an producer
* 1955 - Sally Magnusson, Scots braidcaster an writer
* 1957 - Dawn French, Inglis comedienne, actress an writer
* 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress
* 1965 - Alison Johnstone, Scots politeecian
* 1966 - Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019)
* 1968 - Gus MacPherson, Scots fitbawer an manager
* 1973 - Steven Pressley, Scots fitbawer
* 1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
* 1989 - Michelle Wie, American gowfer
* 1991 - Andy Halliday, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1303 - Pape Boniface VIII (b. 1235)
* 1347 - Louis IV, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1282) 
* 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1484)
* 1820 - James Keir, Scots chemist, geologist an inventor (b. 1735)
* 1889 - James Prescott Joule, Inglis pheesicist (b. 1818)
* 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrick componer (b. 1824)
* 1935 - Samuel Peploe, Scots penter (b. 1871)
* 1955 - Hector McNeil, Scots politeecian (b. 1907)
* 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer, director an penter (b. 1889)
* 1984 - Benno Schotz, Estonie-Scots sculptor (b. 1891)
* 1993 - Andy Stewart, Scots muisicker (b. 1933)
* 2000 - Donald Dewar, 1st First Meenister o Scotland (b. 1937)
* 2008 - Jörg Haider, Austrick politeecian (b. 1950)
* 2019 - Alexey Leonov, Soviet-Roushie cosmonaut (b. 1934)

## Halidays
* Internaitional Day o the Girl Child
* Auld Michaelmas (Chrisitian haliday)