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What happend on 11th October
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1962
Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1958
Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1954
First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1950
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
1942
World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance
1930
Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the premiership (football competition) for the fourth consecutive year.
1929
JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1910
Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt goes on his first airplane ride, in St Louis, with Arch Hoxsey as his pilot. Roosevelt almost falls out of the airplane while waving to the crowd below and Hoxsey pulls him back. This however made Roosevelt the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
1906
San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1899
Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
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