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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">October 11</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints_(Church_of_England)" title="Calendar of saints (Church of England)">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Deacon" title="James the Deacon">Saint James the Deacon</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coming_Out_Day" title="National Coming Out Day">National Coming Out Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1311" title="1311">1311</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peerage_of_England" title="Peerage of England">peerage</a> and clergy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a> published the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinances_of_1311" title="Ordinances of 1311">Ordinances of 1311</a></b> to restrict King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England" title="Edward II of England"><span class="nowrap">Edward II</span></a><span class="nowrap">'</span>s powers.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sydney" title="University of Sydney">University of Sydney</a></b>, Australia's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation" title="List of oldest universities in continuous operation">oldest university</a>, was inaugurated two years after being established with the passage of the <i>University of Sydney Act</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morant_Bay_rebellion" title="Morant Bay rebellion">Morant Bay rebellion</a></b>, led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bogle" title="Paul Bogle">Paul Bogle</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Gordon" title="George William Gordon">George William Gordon</a>, began in Jamaica; after protestors burned down the courthouse, it was brutally suppressed by Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_John_Eyre" title="Edward John Eyre">Edward John Eyre</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937" title="1937">1937</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII" title="Edward VIII">Edward, Duke of Windsor</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_Simpson" title="Wallis Simpson">Wallis, Duchess of Windsor</a>, arrived at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Friedrichstra%C3%9Fe_station" title="Berlin Friedrichstraße station">Friedrichstraße station</a> in Berlin to begin <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_tour_of_Germany_by_the_Duke_and_Duchess_of_Windsor" title="1937 tour of Germany by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor">a tour of Nazi Germany</a></b>, where they were greeted by Nazi salutes and dined with high-ranking members of the state apparatus.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nora_(1973)" title="Typhoon Nora (1973)">Typhoon Nora</a></b>, 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.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli" title="Huldrych Zwingli">Huldrych Zwingli</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1531); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski" title="Casimir Pulaski">Casimir Pulaski</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1779); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alexander" title="Jean Alexander">Jean Alexander</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1926); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawao_Kat%C5%8D" title="Sawao Katō">Sawao Katō</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1946)</p>
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