On Oct. 11, 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Georgia.

In 1968, the government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup.

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, on arms and human rights.

In 2006, the charge of treason was filed against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, who had appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaida. (Gadahn was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in January 2015.)