11th October anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1886
  • First statue to honour a woman is erected
  • 1899
  • Start of Second Boer War
  • 1958
  • "NASA launched the lunar probe Pioneer I, but it fell back to Earth and burnt up in the atmosphere."
  • 1968
  • "NASA launched Apollo 7, their first successful manned mission ."
  • 1982
  • Great Britain
  • Mary Rose raised
  • 1984
  • Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space
• Death
  • 1809
  • "Death of Meriwether Lewis, American explorer of the American interior to the Pacific north-west (Lewis and Clark Expedition)"