11 October 2024 (MIA)

1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.

1910 – Ljuben Lape, a long-time member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU), is born in Prilep.

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.

1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.

1941 – The first Prilep partisan squad attacks the Bulgarian police station in the town, its prison, and the telephone network. The event begins the Macedonian people’s uprising to liberate Macedonia.

1942 – World War II: 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.

1944 – Tuvan People’s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R

1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.

1964 – A TV documentary premieres to mark the 60th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising.

1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.

1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.

1984 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.

1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.

1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.

2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.

2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland, kills seven.