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What happened on October 11 in American history
October 11 is the 284th day of the year (the 285th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from October 11 spanning 1906 to 2000. Among them: in 1906, San Francisco orders Japanese and Korean pupils into the city's "Oriental School"; and in 1910, Roosevelt goes up in a flying machine; the former president says he felt no fear.
1906
San Francisco orders Japanese and Korean pupils into the city's "Oriental School"
Tokyo's newspapers call it an insult to national honor, and Washington takes notice.
1910Member story · 1776 Club
Roosevelt goes up in a flying machine; the former president says he felt no fear
Arch Hoxsey carries Roosevelt twice around a St. Louis park, four and a half miles, in a Wright biplane.
1942Member story · 1776 Club
Scott's cruisers catch Gotō's fleet in the dark off Guadalcanal
A mistaken order to fire turns into the U.S. Navy's first clean nighttime win of the Pacific war.
1968
Apollo 7 lifts off from Cape Kennedy; America flies astronauts again
Twenty-one months after the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts on the pad, a Saturn IB carries three more into orbit.
1984
Sullivan steps outside Challenger; first American woman to walk in space
Over the next three and a half hours she and David Leestma pumped hydrazine into a mock satellite to prove orbiting spacecraft could be refueled.
1986Member story · 1776 Club
Reagan and Gorbachev sit down in Reykjavík to talk missiles
A hastily arranged weekend in Iceland was supposed to set up next year's summit; instead the two sides nearly agreed to scrap their nuclear arsenals.
2000Member story · 1776 Club
Shuttle program's 100th flight lifts off; Discovery carries a truss for the space station
Seven astronauts head for orbit with the first piece of permanent exterior framework the station has ever carried.
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