This Day In History

October 11
1727
George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1899
Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1910
Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
1912
First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
1954
First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1986
Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987
Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.