DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2021. There are 81 days left in the year. On this date:
1779: Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Georgia.
1884: American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City.
1906: The San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students segregated in a purely “Oriental” school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)
1968: The government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup. Also on this day, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
1975: Bill Clinton and Hillary Diane Rodham were married in Fayetteville, Arkansas. “NBC Saturday Night” (later “Saturday Night Live”) made its debut with guest host George Carlin.
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 reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “hightech lynching.”
2001: In his first prime-time news conference since taking office, President George W. Bush said “it may take a year or two” to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but he asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, “we’ve got them on the run.”
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.
2006: The charge of treason was used for the first time in the U.S. war on terrorism, filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, also known as “Azzam the American,” who’d appeared in propaganda videos for al-qaida. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in Jan. 2015.)
Singer Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is 75. Actor Joan Cusak is 59. Actor-writer Michael J. Nelson (“Mystery Science Theater 3000”) is 57. Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 56. Actor Lennie James
(“The Walking Dead”) is 56. Actor Artie Lange
(“MADTV”) is 54. Actor Jane Krakowski (“30 Rock,” “Ally Mcbeal”) is 53. Actor Andrea Navedo
(“Jane the Virgin”) is 52. Actor Constance Zimmer (“UNREAL,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) is 51. Rapper MC Lyte is 51. Actor Darien Sills-evans (“Superior Donuts,” “Treme”) is 47. Singer Neena Lee is 46. Actor Emily Deschanel (“Bones”) is 45. Actor Trevor Donovan (“90210”) is 43. Rapper Cardi B is 29.