October 11

People born on this day are Libra.

On this day in history01

1968
NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission.
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1976
George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
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1982
The hull of the Mary Rose is recovered, over four hundred years after her sinking during the battle of the Solent.
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1984
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
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1984
Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
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1986
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
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1987
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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1991
Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
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2000
NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
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2001
The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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2002
A bomb attack in the Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
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2018
Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
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