Reuters historical calendar - October 11

London, Oct 10 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 11 since 1900: 1939 - Albert Einstein and other US scientists informed President Franklin Roosevelt of the possibilities of developing an atomic bomb.

1961 - Leonard ''Chico'' Marx, the piano-playing member of the Marx Brothers, died at 70.

1962 - Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer and cabaret star, died. She was 47.

1976 - Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing and three others, the ''Gang of Four'', were arrested and charged with plotting a coup in China.

1977 - North Yemen President Ibrahim al-Hamdi and his brother and brother-in-law were killed by unknown assassins.

1982 - The Mary Rose, once Henry VIII's flagship, was raised from the Solent off southern England.

1993 - William Nygaard, Norwegian publisher, whose firm translated ''The Satanic Verses'' by British author Salman Rushdie, was shot and seriously wounded in Oslo.

2000 - Jo Myong-rok, deputy to the North Korean leader and the highest-ranking official from that country ever to visit Washington, ended his three-day trip with Secretary of State Albright agreeing to visit Pyongyang.

2004 - European Union foreign ministers agreed to lift an arms embargo on Libya, imposed in 1986, recognising Tripoli's renunciation of weapons of mass destruction.

**2005 - The United States apologised to Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose possessions were stolen by US soldiers at the end of World War Two after allied forces seized what became known as the ''Gold Train.'' Reuters LL GC1115