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October 11
1779Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the battle of Savannah. 1899The Boer War began in South Africa. 1915English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans. 1939A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons. 1962The first session of Vatican II was convened by Pope John XXIII. 1968The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. 1984Space shuttle Challenger astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, became the first American woman to walk in space. 
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