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Sunday, 11 October 2026

2002

A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.

2001

The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

2000

NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.

1996

Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.

1987

Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.

1986

Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.

1984

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

1982

The ''Mary Rose'', a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.

1976

George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

1975

The NBC sketch comedy/variety show ''Saturday Night Live'' debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.

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