11th of October

I was born in gods year of 1970, 11th of october, the very next day to the independency of great republic of Fiji. And a day before U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas. My birthday is also a day after the birthday of great Finnish author Aleksis Kivi.

Same day and year was born a excellent Def.lineman Chidi Ahanotu, who made a good career in NFL (Tampa Bay Buccaneers,St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers, and Miami Dolphins). Oct 11th is also bithdate of such great athletes as Steve Young, Claude Lapointe, Jason Arnott, Mike Fiore, Bobby Charlton and Tazz :)

Below just few of the known people also have Oct. 11th as their birthday.

- 1844 - Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer
- 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States
- 1930 - LaVell Edwards, Former college football coach
- 1943 - John Nettles, English actor
- 1946 - Daryl Hall, American musician
- 1953 - David Morse, American actor
- 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress
- 1965 - Luke Perry, American actor
- 1974 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
- 1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
- 1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer

and also a day of death of some great people :

- 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
- 1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
- 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
- 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress
- 1988 - Bonita Granville, American actress
- 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician
- 2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland

And such a meaninful events have happened:
- 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

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