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Significant events in popular culture which occurred on October 11.

In Film and Television

 * 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.

In Literature

 * 2012 – Mo Yan becomes the first ever Chinese Nobel laureate when he wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for the "hallucinatory realism" of his novels.

In Music

 * 1974 – Billy Joel releases his third studio album, Streetlife Serenade.

In Sports

 * 1975 – The 1975 World Series, voted by ESPN as the second-greatest World Series ever played, between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox begins. Although the Red Sox shutout the Reds 6-0 in this first game, the Reds will go on to win the series 4-3.

In Other Media

 * 2013 – I got tired of going through every last page for an event that happened in radio or theater or the visual or performing arts or "new media," but this is where they would go.

Fictional Events

 * 1976 – Danny Moynahan, protagonist of the series Get Back, Danny, is born in Trenton, New Jersey.