📜 This Day in History

October 11

• 1142The Treaty of Shaoxing was ratified, ending the Jin–Song wars, although sporadic fighting continued until 1234.
• 1840Bashir Shihab II surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree by Sultan Abdülmecid I.
• 1890In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded.
• 1950A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use, only for it to be abandoned a year later.
• 1973Typhoon Nora, the fourth-most intense tropical cyclone on record, dissipated after killing 40 people and leaving more than a million homeless across Taiwan and the Philippines.
• 2002A bomb exploded in the Myyrmanni shopping center in Helsinki, Finland, resulting in seven deaths and 159 injuries.

Born on this day

• 1884Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 32nd First Lady of the United States (died 1962)
• 1885François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
• 1942Amitabh Bachchan, Indian film actor, producer, television host, and former politician
• 1992Cardi B, American rapper