What happened on 11 October?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1962 Second Vatican Council Major reform council of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. 1986 Reykjavík Summit Reagan and Gorbachev nearly agree to abolish all nuclear weapons.
3. 1942 Born: Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood superstar.
4. 1884 Born: Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady turned global stateswoman, who chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
5. 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion Paul Bogle's protest march becomes a rising; Governor Eyre's savage reprisals kill hundreds and split Victorian Britain over empire and race.
6. 1727 Handel's Zadok the Priest One of four anthems for George II's coronation, sung at every British coronation since.
7. 1521 Henry VIII named Defender of the Faith Pope Leo X rewards Henry's pamphlet attacking Luther with the title Fidei Defensor — still borne by British monarchs long after the break with Rome.
8. 1440 Henry VI founds Eton College The pious king charters 'the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor' for 70 poor scholars, and the next year founds King's College, Cambridge, to receive them.
9. 1928 Woolf's Orlando A poet lives through four centuries and changes sex along the way — Woolf's playful mock-biography of her lover Vita Sackville-West.