11 October

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 11 October:

1. Born on this date in 1884 was Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and cousin of the 32nd US President, Franklin D Roosevelt. She was also a writer and civil rights campaigner. She said, "A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."
2. Anton Grudsch was so upset on this date in 1997 when councillors were ordered to bring their own Toilet paper to meetings in Kalofer, Bulgaria, that he went home, got his shotgun and assassinated the mayor, Simeon Krasnich.
3. In1960, Aretha Franklin made her New York pop stage debut at the Village Vanguard. By this date in 1968 she had seven gold records. Her seventh was awarded today for her recording of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's I Say a Little Prayer.
4. In 1972, Michael Galen from Australia set a world record by eating 63 Bananas in 10 minutes on TV.
5. Another food record on this date took place in 1987 when Lorenzo Amato and Louis Piancone baked the world’s largest Pizza measuring 140 feet in diameter. It covered 10,000 square feet, weighed 44,457 pounds and was eaten by 30,000 people.
6. The Radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, planned by Sir Bernard Lovell, went into operation on this date in 1957.
7. In 1984, Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first US female astronaut to walk in space. Attached to the Space Shuttle Challenger by a narrow life-support tether, Sullivan worked in space for three and a half hours.
8. On this date in 1978, Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon. He said, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog"; but Sid didn't actually remember doing it, and theories include robbery, or perhaps the two had entered a suicide pact and she'd stabbed herself. Vicious died of a drug overdose before his trial.
9. In 1982, the English ship Mary Rose, which had been the pride of Henry VIII's fleet until it sank during an engagement with France in 1545, was raised at Portsmouth.
10. In 2003 Binney and Smith Inc. makers of the Crayola crayon celebrated their 100th birthday by unveiling the world's longest Crayon. Made of Blue crayon stubs sent in by children, the world's longest crayon was 15 feet long, 15 inches wide and weighed 1,500 pounds.

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