October 11

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[edit] Events

• 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
• 1890 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
• 1899 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
• 1944 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the USSR
• 1954 - First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
• 1986 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.

[edit] Births

• 1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)

[edit] Deaths

• 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
• 1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
• 1986 - Georges Dumézil, French scholar (b. 1898)
• 2008 - Jörg Haider, Austrian nationalist politician (b. 1950)