Year 1852
The University of Sydney, Australia was established.
OCTOBER 11
Daily Historical Chronicle
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11 October: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 11 October.
Year 1968
NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
Year 1987
India’s Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by ending the LTTE occupation. Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
Year 2000
NASA launched STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
Year 2001
V. S. Naipaul awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Year 2001
Polaroid Corporation declared bankruptcy.
Born 1876
Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer.
Born 1884
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, an American political figure, diplomat and activist.
Born 1894
Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
Born 1902
Loknayak Jayprakash Harsudayal Narayan, veteran socialist leader, was born at Sitabdiara village (border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) in Bihar. He was awarded Bharat Ratna on Dec. 23, 1998 and played a key role in formation of Janta Party which defeated Indian National Congress for the first time.
Born 1916
(Chandikadas Amritrao) Nanaji Deshmukh, Padma Vibhushan, Indian social reformer.
Born 1923
Harish Chandra was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world.
Born 1927
Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad.
Born 1930
Behram Contractor, also known as Busybee, Indian journalist, and columnist.
Born 1932
Suresh Dalal, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Indian-Gujarati poet, writer, and editor.
Born 1942
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian film actor, producer, television host, and former politician
Born 1946
Vijay Bhatkar, Indian scientist, the creator and founder of Param Supercomputer and C-DAC.
Born 1967
Altaf Raja, Indian Qawwali Singer.
Born 1972
Sanjay Banger, Indian cricketer, and coach.
Born 1993
Hardik Pandya, Indian cricketer
Died 1809
Meriwether Lewis, an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator.
Died 1889
James Prescott Joule, a British physicist who proposed the theory of energy transition.
Died 1938
Baji Rout, the youngest Indian freedom fighter and martyr.
Died 1968
Manik Bandoji Ingle (Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj) took Samadhi at Gurukunj Ashram, Amravati. He was involved in social reforms in rural regions of Maharashtra and started many development programs, including construction of roads. He also wrote GramGeeta which describes means for village development. He had also attended a World Religions and World Peace Conference in Japan. Nagpur University is renamed as "Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University" in his honor.
Died 1994
Kakasaheb Dandekar, Indian industrialist, founder of Camlin Industries.
Died 1996
William Spencer Vickrey, Canadian-born professor of economics, and Nobel Laureate.
Died 1997
Vipul Kanti Saha, internationally renowned sculptor.
Died 2000
Donald Dewar, Scotland’s first minister.
Died 2007
Chinmoy Kumar Ghosh (Shri Chinmoy), Indian spiritual guru.
Died 2019
Robert Forster, an American actor.
Died 2019
Alexei Leonov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, and the first human to conduct a spacewalk.