10-11-2004, 05:35 AM
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October 11th
1779 ~ Death of Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence.
1809 ~ Death of Meriwether Lewis, explorer.
1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer.
1896 ~ Death of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
1899 ~ Boer War: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began.
1919 ~ Birthday of Art Blakey, jazz drummer.
1931 ~ Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop an atomic bomb program.
1961 ~ Death of Chico Marx, comedian. One of the Marx Brothers.
1975 ~ “Saturday Night Live” premiered. George Carlin is the guest host.
1986 ~ Cold War: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
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