October 11: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1767 - Surveying for the Mason-Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
2. 1811 - Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
3. 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
4. 1890 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
5. 1910 - Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
6. 1950 - Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
7. 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
8. 1975 - The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
9. 1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
10. 2000 - NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
11. Famous Birthdays: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (German astronomer), George Williams (English founder of the YMCA), Henry Heinz (American food manufacturer), Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States and humanitarian), Joan Cusack (American actress and comedian)

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