11 October It Happened Today

1871  The Great Fire of Chicago is extinguished.

1884 Birth of American writer and wife of US president Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor.

1919  The first in-flight meals are served on a flight between London and Paris.

1928 Birth of Italian composer Ennio Morricone.

1957  The world’s largest steerable radio telescope  went into operation at the Jodrell Observatory near Manchester.

1961  Death of Leonard “Chico” Marx, member of the Marx Brothers family.

1968 US spacecraft Apollo 7 is launched.