October 11
Today in America's Present Past
1776 | War of Independence: The Battle of Valcour Island.
1779 | Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski died.
1809 | Explorer Meriwether Lewis died.
1811 | First steam-powered ferryboat began operation.
1844 | Entrepreneur Henry John Heinz was born.
1865 | POTUS: Democrat President Johnson pardoned the Confederate Vice-President and other senior officers.
1872 | SCOTUS: Justice Harlan Fiske Stone was born.
1881 | Entrepreneur David Houston patented roll film.
1884 | First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born.
1887 | Entrepreneur A. Mills patented the elevator.
1890 | Daughters of the Revolution was founded.
1903 | Intelligence officer Charles P. Cabell was born.
1906 | Civil Rights: San Francisco orders the school segregation of Japanese students.
1910 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt became the first sitting President to fly in an airplane.
1919 | Coast Guard mariner Douglas Munro was born.
1922 | The first female FBI special investigator was hired.
1925 | Novelist Elmore Leonard was born.
1929 | Entrepreneur James Cash Penny opened a store in his 48th state, creating the first nationwide realtor.
1932 | TV: The first political TV broadcast, the Democratic National Committee meeting.
1935 | Entrepreneur Dale Evins was born.
1936 | Radio: “Professor Quiz” debuted.
1945 | Jesse James Payne was lynched.
1961 | Comedian Chico Marx died.
1966 | Actor Luke Perry died.
1967 | Entrepreneur Peter Thiel was born.
1971 | General Chesty Puller died.
1975 | TV: “Saturday Night Live” debuted.
1975 | President Bill Clinton wed Hillary Rodham.
1976 | Congress: George Washington was posthumously promoted to General of the Armies.
1984 | Astronaut Katheryn Sullivan becomes the first American female to walk in space.
1991 | Comedian Redd Foxx died.
1999 | Inventor James Franklin Hyde died.
2002 | POTUS: Democrat President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize.
2007 | WWII triple Ace Tex Hill died.
2022 | Actress Angela Lansbury died.