October 11
1614 - The New Netherland Co. was formed by a group of merchants from Amsterdam and Hoorn to set up fur trading in North America.
1779 - Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah.
1809 - Just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa.
1906 - The San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city's Asian students segregated into their own school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
1915 - English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans during World War I.
1939 - A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.
1962 - The first session of "Vatican II" was convened by Pope John XXIII.
1968 - The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1984 - Space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1986 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, concerning arms control and human rights.
1991 - Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it had finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
2014 - Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2017 - The Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting in 2018 and establish a new program for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum, allowing them to aspire to the Eagle Scout rank.
2022 - NASA announced that a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, a test aimed at fending off any more dangerous asteroids in the future.
Birthdays
27 - Rhea Ripley (professional wrestler)
31 - Cardi B (rapper)
34 - Michelle Wie (golfer)
35 - Ricochet (professional wrestler)
37 - Lucy Griffiths (actress)
38 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)
43 - Robert Christopher Riley (actor)
45 - Trevor Donovan (actor)
46 - Matt Bomer (actor)
47 - Emily Deschanel (actress)
49 - Darien Sills-Evans (actor)
53 - Constance Zimmer (actress)
54 - Andrea Navedo (actress)
55 - Jane Krakowski (actress)
56 - Artie Lange (actor/comedian)
58 - Chris Spielman (football player)
58 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor)
58 - Rikishi (professional wrestler)
61 - Joan Cusack (actress)
62 - Steve Young (football player)
66 - Dawn French (actress/comedian)
67 - Stephen Spinella (actor)
70 - David Morse (actor)
77 - Daryl Hall (singer)
80 - Gene Watson (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 11
1902 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 17-0.
1913 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants in five games to win the World Series.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-6.
1919 - Nebraska and Minnesota play to a 6-6 tie.
1924 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 14-7.
1924 - The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons were granted NHL franchises.
1925 - The New York Giants played their first NFL game. The Giants lost 14-0 to Providence.
1930 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 20-7.
1941 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 32-0.
1943 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win their 10th World Series.
1947 - Nebraska defeats Iowa State 14-7.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves in six games to win the World Series.
1952 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 27-14.
1958 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 23-6.
1969 - #7 Missouri defeats #20 Nebraska 17-7.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-0.
1980 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas 54-0.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1986 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 30-10.
1992 - Deion Sanders plays for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLB's Atlanta Braves on the same day.
1997 - #3 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-21.
1998 - Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) became the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards.
2003 - Missouri defeats #10 Nebraska 41-24.
2004 - The Houston Astros won a postseason series for the first time in their 43 year history. They defeated the Atlanta Braves 12-3 in Game 5. The Astros had lost 7 playoff series previously, three of them to Atlanta.
2006 - In New York, Cory Lidle (New York Yankees) and his flight instructor were killed when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building.
2008 - #7 Texas Tech defeats Nebraska 37-31 in overtime.
2020 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games to win the NBA championship. The entire season had been played in a "bubble" at Walt Disney World in Florida for three months because of the COVID pandemic.
2021 - Jon Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders following reports about messages he wrote years earlier that used offensive terms to refer to Blacks, gays and women.
1614 - The New Netherland Co. was formed by a group of merchants from Amsterdam and Hoorn to set up fur trading in North America.
1779 - Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah.
1809 - Just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa.
1906 - The San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city's Asian students segregated into their own school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
1915 - English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans during World War I.
1939 - A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.
1962 - The first session of "Vatican II" was convened by Pope John XXIII.
1968 - The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1984 - Space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1986 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, concerning arms control and human rights.
1991 - Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it had finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
2014 - Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
2017 - The Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting in 2018 and establish a new program for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum, allowing them to aspire to the Eagle Scout rank.
2022 - NASA announced that a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, a test aimed at fending off any more dangerous asteroids in the future.
Birthdays
27 - Rhea Ripley (professional wrestler)
31 - Cardi B (rapper)
34 - Michelle Wie (golfer)
35 - Ricochet (professional wrestler)
37 - Lucy Griffiths (actress)
38 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)
43 - Robert Christopher Riley (actor)
45 - Trevor Donovan (actor)
46 - Matt Bomer (actor)
47 - Emily Deschanel (actress)
49 - Darien Sills-Evans (actor)
53 - Constance Zimmer (actress)
54 - Andrea Navedo (actress)
55 - Jane Krakowski (actress)
56 - Artie Lange (actor/comedian)
58 - Chris Spielman (football player)
58 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor)
58 - Rikishi (professional wrestler)
61 - Joan Cusack (actress)
62 - Steve Young (football player)
66 - Dawn French (actress/comedian)
67 - Stephen Spinella (actor)
70 - David Morse (actor)
77 - Daryl Hall (singer)
80 - Gene Watson (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 11
1902 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 17-0.
1913 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants in five games to win the World Series.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-6.
1919 - Nebraska and Minnesota play to a 6-6 tie.
1924 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 14-7.
1924 - The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons were granted NHL franchises.
1925 - The New York Giants played their first NFL game. The Giants lost 14-0 to Providence.
1930 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 20-7.
1941 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 32-0.
1943 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in five games to win their 10th World Series.
1947 - Nebraska defeats Iowa State 14-7.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves in six games to win the World Series.
1952 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 27-14.
1958 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 23-6.
1969 - #7 Missouri defeats #20 Nebraska 17-7.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-0.
1980 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas 54-0.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1986 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 30-10.
1992 - Deion Sanders plays for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLB's Atlanta Braves on the same day.
1997 - #3 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-21.
1998 - Steve Young (San Francisco 49ers) became the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards.
2003 - Missouri defeats #10 Nebraska 41-24.
2004 - The Houston Astros won a postseason series for the first time in their 43 year history. They defeated the Atlanta Braves 12-3 in Game 5. The Astros had lost 7 playoff series previously, three of them to Atlanta.
2006 - In New York, Cory Lidle (New York Yankees) and his flight instructor were killed when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building.
2008 - #7 Texas Tech defeats Nebraska 37-31 in overtime.
2020 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games to win the NBA championship. The entire season had been played in a "bubble" at Walt Disney World in Florida for three months because of the COVID pandemic.
2021 - Jon Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders following reports about messages he wrote years earlier that used offensive terms to refer to Blacks, gays and women.
