Historical timeline for October 11

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.

Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.

Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.

George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.

NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission.

The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.

NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.

In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.

CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.

World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.