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October 11 in history

194 sourced entries recorded on October 11, from 368 CE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 368An earthquake strikes Nicaea (modern Turkey).source
  • 607Thomas I is appointed as the 60th patriarch of Constantinople.source
  • 1111October 5 – 18-year-old Baldwin VII succeeds his father, Robert II, as Count of Flanders until 1119.source
  • 1138An earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills about 230,000 people.source
  • 1142Treaty of Shaoxing: The northern Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty sign a peace treaty, this ending the Jurchen campaigns against the Song Dynasty in China.source
  • 1311The Ordinances of 1311 are published in England by King Edward II, restricting the power of the monarchs of England.source
  • 1368Pope Urban V issues a papal bull appointing William Whittlesey as Archbishop of Canterbury, and "primate of all England".source
  • 1394The antipope Benedict XIII begins his reign.source
  • 1424Prokop the Great takes command of the Hussites after the death of Jan Žižka from the plague.source
  • 1446In what is now the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Mahmud Khalji, Sultan of Malwa attempts to cross the Banas River to invade Mandalgarh in what is now the state of Rajasthan, but he and his armies are driven back by the forces of the Rana Kumbhakaran Singh, ruler of the Kingdom of Mewar.source
  • 1447In the Battle of Bosco Marengo in Italy, the army the Ambrosian Republic of Milan defeats the 3,000-member force of the Duchy of Orléans, killing half of their troops while losing only 500 of its 3,700 men.source
  • 1466Eric of Pomerania buys the town of Lauenburg back from the Kingdom of Poland, seven years after it had been captured.source
  • 1505Lucien Grimaldi takes over as the new Lord of Monaco after stabbing his brother Jean II to death.source
  • 1515King Francis enters the city of Milan with Charles III, Duke of Savoy and William IX, Marquis of Montferrat. Francis becomes Duke of Milan and sends Duke Maximilian into exile in France, providing hm with an annual annuity of 35,000 écus.source
  • 1531Battle of Kappel: The forces of Zürich are defeated by the Catholic cantons. Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss religious reformer, is killed.source
  • 1549Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector of England and Lord High Treasurer since 1547, is arrested on orders of the Regency Council on charges of "ambition, vainglory, entering into rash wars" as well as malfeasance and improper use of the royal treasury.source
  • 1551John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, de facto Lord Protector of the Kingdom of England, is created Duke of Northumberland.source
  • 1565Ottavio Gentile Oderico is elected to a two-year term as the Doge of the Republic of Genoa.source
  • 1573The Spanish under John of Austria take Tunis with little resistance.source
  • 1593The Battle of Belleek takes place at County Fermanagh in Ireland as an English expeditionary force led by Henry Bagenal defeats Irish troops commanded by the Lord of Fermanagh.source
  • 1614Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General of the Northern Netherlands for exclusive trading rights, in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".source
  • 1634The Burchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) strikes the North Sea coast of Germany and Denmark, causing at least 8,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 12,000.source
  • 1645October 8–14 – English Civil War: The Third siege of Basing House by Oliver Cromwell results in its destruction.source
  • 1645English Civil War: Re-fortification of Bourne Castle in Lincolnshire against a threatened Royalist attack begins.source
  • 1649The Sack of Wexford in Ireland ends after having started on October 2, with Cromwell's New Model Army breaking through, killing more than 1,500 Irish Catholic defenders and civilians, while losing only 20 of the English soldiers. The capture of Wexford ends the remaining chance that Charles II, heir to the English throne, can land troops in Ireland, and Charles and the royalist fleet flee to Portugal.source
  • 1653October 11 (October 1 O.S.) – The Zemsky Sobor, the Russian Empire's national assembly, opens its session to declare a war against the Kingdom of Poland.source
  • 1678Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, having returned to Ireland in May, is arrested near Maynooth on the orders of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for supposed complicity in the "Popish Plot" and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.source
  • 1693Charleroi falls to French forces.source
  • 1695King William III of England dissolves Parliament in the wake of a scandal involving former Speaker of the House of Commons John Trevor and other Tory MPs.source
  • 1698The Treaty of the Hague is signed between the Dutch Republic, England and France.source
  • 1698Treaty of the Hague signed between France, England and Holland.source
  • 1699The opera Marthésie, première reine des Amazones (Marthesia, First Queen of the Amazons), composed by André Cardinal Destouches, is performed for the first time, premiering at Fontainebleau near Paris.source
  • 1703Nine Roman Catholic residents of the French village of Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge are massacred by a mob of more than 800 French Huguenot Protestants, the Camisards. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later.source
  • 1710October 5 – October 13 - British forces under Francis Nicholson conduct the successful Siege of Port Royal against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal, marking the start of British control of what became Nova Scotia.source
  • 1710The Battle of Rahon is fought between Sikhs and Mughal Empire.source
  • 1711Panic kills 241 people in the stampede on the Guillottière bridge in France near Lyon. Revelers returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône river are blocked by from crossing after a collision between a carriage and a cart. At least 25 fall off the bridge and into the river, while 216 are trampled by people behind them.source
  • 1715William Aislabie resigns as the British East India Company's administrator of Bombay and the company's territories and is replaced at year's end by Charles Boone.source
  • 1727coronation of George II at Westminster Abbey. Handel's Coronation Anthems are composed for the event, including Zadok the Priest which is sung at every subsequent coronation.source
  • 1727George II of Great Britain is crowned. Handel's Coronation Anthems are composed for the event, including Zadok the Priest, which has been played at every subsequent Coronation of the British monarch.source
  • 1737The first national stage in Sweden opens, when Carl Gyllenborg's play Den svenska sprätthöken is performed in the Swedish language, by the first native actors, on the stage of Bollhuset in Stockholm.source
  • 1740October 9–22 – Batavia Massacre: Troops of the Dutch East India Company massacre at least 10,000 Chinese Indonesians in Batavia.source
  • 1745At Köslin (modern Koszalin in Poland) Prussian scientist Ewald Georg von Kleist independently invents the first electrical capacitor to store and discharge electricity. The invention, commonly called the Leyden jar is later credited to a subsequent inventor Pieter van Musschenbroek.source
  • 1746War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Rocoux: The French army defeats the allied Austrian, British, Hanoveran and Dutch army in Rocourt.source
  • 1746Battle of Rocoux: French forces defeat the allied Austrian, British, Hanoverian and Dutch (War of the Austrian Succession)source
  • 1755In west Africa, officials of the Dutch West India Company sign a peace agreement with officials of the Ashanti Empire at Elmina. In return for an annual tribute in gold, the Ashanti maintain peaceful relations with the Europeans in the Dutch Gold Coast colony and the Dutch maintain their settlement at Fort Coenraadsburg. The area is now part of the Central Region of Ghana.source
  • 1763Hester Lynch Salusbury marries Henry Thrale, against her family's wishes.source
  • 1770Phillis Wheatley becomes the first African American woman to have her work published, after having written a poetic elegy to the late Reverend George Whitefield.source
  • 1774Det nyttige Selskab, a non-profit organization, was founded in Bergen.source
  • 1776The British are victorious on Lake Champlain.source
  • 1776American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain near Valcour Island, a British fleet led by Sir Guy Carleton defeats 15 American gunboats, commanded by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold. Although nearly all of Arnold's ships are destroyed, the two-day-long battle will give Patriot forces enough time to prepare the defenses of New York City.source
  • 1795October 5 – 13 Vendémiaire: Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras and newly-reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.source
  • 1797Battle of Camperdown: the British Royal Navy defeats the fleet of the Batavian Republic off the coast of Holland.source
  • 179711 October (12 October naval reckoning) – Battle of Camperdown: Royal Navy led by Dundee-born Admiral Duncan defeats the fleet of the Batavian Republic off the coast of Holland.source
  • 1798Elizabeth Inchbald's play Lovers' Vows, adapted from Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe, is first performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.source
  • 1811Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry service, between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.source
  • 1811Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).source
  • 1831The first marriage between two Europeans in New Zealand is performed at Waimate North. William Gilbert Puckey marries Mathilda Davis.source
  • 1840Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottomans, and on October 14 goes into exile, initially in Malta.source
  • 1840the Lettsom raid in Melbourne, the mass-arrest and imprisonment of approximately 400 Wurundjeri, Woiworrung, Boonwurrung and Taungurung people (collectively known as the Kulin nation of Indigenous Australians).source
  • 1840Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottomans (in alliance with the British) and on 14 October goes into exile, initially in Malta.source
  • 1850The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad opens.source
  • 1852The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.source
  • 1854October 9–11 – United States diplomats in Europe meet and draft the Ostend Manifesto, setting out a rationale for the U.S. to acquire Cuba from Spain.source
  • 1862American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the North.source
  • 1865Morant Bay rebellion: Paul Bogle leads hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the British governor Edward John Eyre with 400 executed.source
  • 1866October 7–21 – The Second Plenary Council of American Roman Catholic bishops is held in Baltimore.source
  • 1869The Red River Rebellion breaks out against British forces in Canada.source
  • 1869Gamma Sigma becomes the first high school fraternity in North America at Brockport Normal School, Brockport, New York.source
  • 1871Heinrich Schliemann begins the excavation of Troy in the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1883The Russian tsar family departs from Copenhagen.source
  • 1886The Standard Bank of South Africa opens the first bank in Ferreira's Camp.source
  • 1888German Emperor Wilhelm II in Rome on an official state visit. Visiting the Italian King Umberto I in Rome would be regarded as recognizing his right to rule the Holy City, while the Vatican did not recognise the Italian king's right to rule in Rome. To appease the situation, Wilhelm II also met Pope Leo XIII the next day.source
  • 1890In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.source
  • 1898The Kubok Obschestva Velosipednoy Ezdy (Bicycle Riders Society Cup) first Grand Prix in Russia is staged with seven cars near Saint Petersburg, on a route from Alexandrovskaya to Strelna and back again for a total distance of 25 mi, and is won by Pavel Belyaev.source
  • 1899Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, erupts.source
  • 1903October 1–13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games.source
  • 1904Loftus Road football stadium opens in London.source
  • 1905The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.source
  • 1906A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (it is resolved by next year).source
  • 1906The San Francisco public school board sparks a United States diplomatic crisis with Japan, by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.source
  • 1909The 1909 Florida Keys hurricane makes landfall in the U.S.source
  • 1918The magnitude (M w ) 7.1 San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributes to the damage and loss of life.source
  • 1918The 7.1 Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.source
  • 1921The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.source
  • 1922Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends in Turkish victory.source
  • 1922The opening of Baishatun Station in Shinchiku Prefecture.source
  • 1925October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.source
  • 1929The maintenance of the Turkish battleship Yavuz was completedsource
  • 1931A rally in Bad Harzburg, Germany leads to the Harzburg Front being founded, uniting the NSDAP, the DNVP, the Stahlhelm and various other right-wing factions.source
  • 1931Rally in Bad Harzburg leads to the Harzburg Front being founded, uniting the NSDAP, the DNVP, the Stahlhelm and various other right-wing fractions.source
  • 1937Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrive in Berlin to begin a 12-day tour of Nazi Germany, meeting Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.source
  • 1940Portuguese-born performer Carmen Miranda makes her American film debut in Down Argentine Way, one of the first films produced to promote the Good Neighbor policy.source
  • 1941October 11–12 – Fire destroys a Firestone Tire and Rubber Company plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, consuming 15,850 tons of rubber, and causing a setback to the United States military effort.source
  • 1942WWII: Battle of Cape Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet, on their way to reinforce troops on the island.source
  • 1944The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed into the Soviet Union.source
  • 1950The Federal Communications Commission in the United States issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).source
  • 1954Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000.source
  • 195570-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!.source
  • 1957The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer at the MIT Computation Center as part of Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.source
  • 1958Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of the 3 project Able space probes, becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.source
  • 1962Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.source
  • 1964October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.source
  • 1968Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and simulating lunar module rendezvous and docking, using the S-IVB rocket stage as a test target.source
  • 1969October 9–12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.source
  • 1969Radio Malaysia and Television Malaysia merged into a single broadcasting service Radio Television Malaysia.source
  • 1969The Zodiac Killer shoots and kills taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco; this is the serial killer's last known murder.source
  • 1969October 11–16 – The New York Mets upset the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the World Series.source
  • 1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
  • 197323 November: Earthquake in the Azoressource
  • 1974The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.source
  • 1974Terje Håkonsen, snowboardersource
  • 1974Axel Heiberg Stang, politician and Minister (b.1904).source
  • 1977Award of Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Ilya Prigogine announced.source
  • 1978Leo Tindemans proffers his resignation as Prime Minister after the failure of the Egmont pactsource
  • 1980Census (Population: 44,736,947)source
  • 1981A Malay rubber tapper named Jaafar Patola killed six people and wounded 25 others in Parit Setan, a village near Benut, Johor before being shot dead by police.source
  • 1982Andrew Peacock becomes Industry and Commerce Minister after 18 months on the backbench when ill-health forces Sir Phillip Lynch's resignation from the position and from Parliament.source
  • 1982The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised from the Solent.source
  • 1984Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.source
  • 1984Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes at Omsk Airport into maintenance vehicles on the runway, killing 174 people on board and 4 on the ground.source
  • 1986October 11–12 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe, which end in failure.source
  • 1989October 1–13 – Typhoons Angela (Rubing), Dan (Saling), and Elsie (Tasing) impact the country in two weeks.source
  • 1990The last Social and Welfare Lottery draw was held, as the Malaysian government aspire to promote the assimilation of Islamic values in public administration and not involve directly in gambling activities. The end of such lotteries was announced in April.source
  • 1992The Catechism of the Catholic Church is promulgated by Pope John Paul II with his apostolic constitution, Fidei depositum.source
  • 1993October 11–28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti by its military-led regime. On October 18, United Nations economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.source
  • 1994October 2 – 16 – The Philippines participates in the 1994 Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan from October 2 to 16, 1994. It Ranks 14th with three gold medals, two silver medals and eight bronze medals with a total of 13 over-all medals.source
  • 199711 October–19 October – The Southeast Asian Games take place in Jakarta.source
  • 2000250 million US gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky, United States (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).source
  • 2001The promulgation of the Petroleum Administration Act.source
  • 2002The United States Congress approves military action in Iraq should it fail to comply with United Nations requirements for weapons of mass destruction.source
  • 2006October 11–13 – St Andrews Agreement is held in Scotland between the British and Irish governments on devolution in Northern Ireland.source
  • 2009At least 10 people die and seven are declared missing in a river ferry sinking on the Mekong in Kratié Province.source
  • 2010Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he will extend the settlement freeze if the Palestinian leadership recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians quickly reject the offer.source
  • 2010October 3–14 – 2010 Commonwealth Games takes place in Delhi, India.source
  • 2018The flight of the Soyuz MS-10 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station is aborted during launch following the failure of the booster rocket. The two-man crew lands safely near Jezkazgan.source
  • 2019The United States sanctions the businessmen Ashraf Seed Ahmed Al-Cardinal and Kur Ajing Ater Ajing for corruption in South Sudan.source
  • 2023The Dominican Republic partially reopens its border with Haiti for some commercial activity after closing it last month.source
  • 2023ExxonMobil announces it will acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for US$65 billion, the first of two major energy industry acquisitions of the month. The second occurs less than two weeks later on 23 October, where Hess announces it will be acquired by Chevron for $50 billion.source

Births

  • 1492Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (died 1495)source
  • 1561October 11 (bapt.) – Thomas Lake, English Secretary of State to King James I (died 1630)source
  • 1577Jørgen Lunge, Danish politician (died 1619)source
  • 1590William Pynchon, English colonist and fur trader in North America (died 1662)source
  • 1599Abraham de Fabert, marshall of France (died 1662)source
  • 1616Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist (died 1664)source
  • 1629Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Frondeur (died 1666)source
  • 1652Nathaniel Higginson, English politician (died 1708)source
  • 1658Henri de Boulainvilliers, nobleman and historian (died 1722)source
  • 1661Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat and cardinal (died 1742)source
  • 1671King Frederick IV of Denmark (died 1730)source
  • 1671Frederick IV, king of Denmark (died 1730)source
  • 1672Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (died 1742)source
  • 1675Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (died 1729)source
  • 1738Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales (died 1814)source
  • 1739Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great (died 1791)source
  • 1739Grigory Potemkin (died 1791)source
  • 1875Carlos Brandt (died 1964) — writer, philosopher and scientific communicator.source
  • 1881Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (died 1973)source
  • 1884Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States (died 1962)source
  • 1905Fred Trump, American real estate developer (died 1999)source
  • 1967Peter Thiel, German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalistsource

Deaths

  • 965Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne (born 925)source
  • 1086Sima Guang, Chinese politician (born 1019)source
  • 1159William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (born c. 1137)source
  • 1188Robert I (the Great), count of Dreux (born 1123)source
  • 1232Gebhard I of Plain, German bishop (born 1170)source
  • 1273Hildebold of Wunstorf, German archbishopsource
  • 1303Pope Boniface VIII dies while imprisoned at Anagni, after a pontificate of 8 years.source
  • 1303Boniface VIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1230)source
  • 1307Catherine I, Latin empress consort (born 1274)source
  • 1347Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1282)source
  • 1424Jan Žižka, Czech general and Hussite leadersource
  • 1488Geoffroy Cœur, French nobleman, son of Jacques Cœursource
  • 1493Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (born 1450)source
  • 1523Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (born 1450)source
  • 1531Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (in battle) (born 1484)source
  • 1542Thomas Wyatt, English poet and diplomat (born 1503)source
  • 1579Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire for more than 14 years, is assassinated in Constantinople.source
  • 1579Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Turkish Janissary and Grand Vizier (born 1505)source
  • 1631Marten Ryckaert (born 1587), paintersource
  • 1648George I Rákóczi, Hungarian prince of Transylvania (born 1593)source
  • 1666The Sieur de Buat, Captain Henri de Fleury de Coulan of the Army of the Dutch Republic, is beheaded in public at The Hague after being convicted of attempting to overthrow Dutch leader Johan de Witt.source
  • 1684James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier (born c. 1617)source
  • 1698William Molyneux, Irish philosopher and writer (born 1656)source
  • 1719Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda, the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, is assassinated in a bloody coup d'etat by supporters of the Archbishop of Manila, whom Bustamante had imprisoned.source
  • 1721Edward Colston, English merchant, philanthropist (born 1636)source
  • 1779Kazimierz Pułaski, veteran commander of Polish, Russian, and American troops (born 1745)source
  • 1780October 10–16 – The Great Hurricane flattens the islands of Barbados, Martinique and Sint Eustatius; 22,000 are killed.source
  • 1809Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (born 1774)source
  • 1809Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.source
  • 1867Gunatitanand Swami, Indian paramahamsa of the Hindu Swaminarayan Sampraday sect (born 1785)source
  • 1896Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (born 1824)source
  • 1987Jaime Pardo Leal, 1986 presidential candidate for the Patriotic Union, is assassinated in a drive-by shooting between La Mesa and Bogotá.source
  • 2004Keith Miller, 84, Australian cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist.source
  • 2017Clifford Husbands, politician and judge, Governor-General 1996–2011 (born 1926).source