EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
October 11
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Day 284 of 2026 | Week 42 | 75 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.
A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.
Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American singer-songwriter
American guitarist (Snot; Limp Bizkit)
Scottish football player and manager
American NBA center (Dallas Mavericks
Australian actress (Stargate SG-1)
Japanese-American figure skater (1993 North Atlantic Sr champ)
Australian cricket pace bowler (Victorian lefty since 1994-95)
English actress (Baywatch)
American pop-rock vocalist and violinist (The Haden Triplets; Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out)
English-Welsh football goalkeeper
American NFL defensive end and defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
American actress (Unreal)
American NFL center and guard (NY Jets)
youngest son of Queen Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg
American rodeo cowboy (5-time all-around world champion)
🎯 yow.com Connection
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