October 11: National Coming Out Day (international); Day of Tasu'a (Islam, 2016); Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2016)
Apollo 7 launch
- 1311 – The peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England imposed the Ordinances of 1311 to restrict King Edward II's powers.
- 1614 – A group of merchants led by Adriaen Block presented a petition to the States General of the Netherlands to receive exclusive trading privileges for the New Netherland colony.
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captured eleven Dutch Navy ships without any losses in the Battle of Camperdown.
- 1941 – Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia attacked Axis-occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
- 1968 – Apollo 7 (lift-off pictured), the first manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, and the first three-man American space mission, launched from Complex 34 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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