october 11 in history: what happened to that day

In 1658, the Russian army defeated the Lithuanians at the Battle of Verki.

In 1783, the Russian Academy was established, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova was appointed president of the Academy.

In 1887, American inventor Thomas Edison patented an electric vote-counting machine.

In 1891, the world’s first open-air ethnographic museum, Skansen, opened in Stockholm.

On October 11, German astronomer, physician and physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758); Austrian organist, composer and musical theorist Simon Seechter (1788); Soviet engineer, bridge builder Grigory Peredery (1871); Soviet and Russian graphic cartoonist, Hero of Socialist Labor Boris Efimov (1900).