History for October 11

History for October 11 - On-This-Day.com:
Parson Mason Weems 1759 - He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree., Henry Heinz 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt 1884


Charles Revson 1906, Joseph Alsop 1910, Elmore Leonard 1925


1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.


1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.


1932 - In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.


1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.


1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.


1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.


1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville, AR.


1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.