October 11

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1811	Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).	Gerry & the Pacemakers	Ferry Cross the Mersey	Ferry Cross the Mersey
2.	1852	The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.	Watashi Wa	Sydney Tonight	Eager Seas
3.	1890	In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.	Enon	Daughter in the House of Fools	Hocus Pocus
4.	1910	Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.	The Album Leaf	Airplane	An Orchestrated Rise to Fall
5.	1950	Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.	Anna Oxygen	Primary Colors	All Your Faded Things
6.	1975	The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.	The New Christy Minstrels	Saturday Night	The Folk Years – Reason to Believe
7.	N/A	National Coming Out Day (Multinational, including United Kingdom, Switzerland, and United States among others.)	Spoon	Waiting for the Kids to Come Out	Soft Effects

(Historical facts about October 11 are from Wikipedia)