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Historical events & facts — October 11
What happened on October 11?
On October 11, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first crewed mission of the Apollo programme, eleven months after the tragic Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts. The mission, with Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard, proved the spacecraft was flight-worthy and cleared the path toward the July 1969 Moon landing.
October 11 was declared by the UN as the International Day of the Girl Child in 2012, to highlight the specific challenges faced by girls worldwide: forced marriages, lack of access to education and gender-based violence. The date aims to promote the empowerment of girls and their access to rights on equal terms.
On October 11, 1899, the Second Boer War broke out in South Africa, when the Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State declared war on the British Empire. The conflict lasted nearly three years and was notorious for the British use of concentration camps, which caused tens of thousands of deaths among Boer civilians.
Notable birthdays — October 11
Famous people born on October 11
Mal Whitfield
Malvin Greston Whitfield was an American athlete, goodwill ambassador, and airman. Nicknamed Marvelous Mal, he was the Olympic champion in the 800 meters at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics, and a member of the 1948 gold medal team in the 4 × 400 metres relay. Overall, Whitfield was a five-time Olympic medalist.
Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert Johnson was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the acting Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, where he also served as chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee.
Austin Currie
Joseph Austin Currie was an Irish politician who served as a Minister of State with responsibility for Children's Rights from 1994 to 1997.
Lucas Papademos
Lucas Demetrios Papademos is a Greek economist and academic who served as Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat, he previously served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002.
Jon Miller
Jon Miller is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997, he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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