Today is Saturday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2025. There are 81 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On October 11, 2002, Jimmy Carter, along with The Carter Center, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts to resolve global conflicts and promote human rights.
Also on this date:
Back in 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education decided that Asian students in the city would attend separate schools. This decision was later reversed after President Theodore Roosevelt intervened and agreed to limit future Japanese immigration in return.
In 1968, the Apollo 7 mission marked the first crewed flight of the Apollo program. Astronauts Walter Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham were onboard this historic launch.
In 1984, Kathryn D. Sullivan made history as the first American woman to conduct a spacewalk. She and Mission Specialist David C. Leestma spent three and a half hours outside the space shuttle Challenger.
During 1986, President Ronald Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. Their two-day discussions focused on arms control and human rights issues.
In 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on the National Mall.
In 1991, Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Thomas strongly denied the allegations, calling the hearings a “high-tech lynching.” Despite the controversy, he was confirmed on October 15 with a 52-48 vote.
In 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting the following year and establish a new program for older girls based on the Boy Scout curriculum.
In 2021, Jon Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders following reports about messages he wrote years earlier that used offensive terms to refer to Blacks, gays and women; Gruden later filed a lawsuit, still pending, against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, alleging a “malicious and orchestrated campaign” to destroy his career.
In 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, for its activism against nuclear weapons.
Today’s Birthdays:
- Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry is 98.
- Actor Amitabh Bachchan is 83.
- Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 79.
- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, is 75.
- Actor David Morse is 72.
- Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 64.
- Actor Joan Cusack is 63.
- Actor Jane Krakowski is 57.
- Rapper MC Lyte is 55.
- Actor Emily Deschanel is 49.
- Golfer Michelle Wie is 36.
- Rapper Cardi B is 33.
