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April 11
April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining.
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Events
up to 19th century
- 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Bela IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi
- 1512 - Battle of Ravenna
- 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht
- 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany
- 1803 - French Foreign Minister Charles Talleyrand offers to sell all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States
- 1814 - Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
- 1856 - Battle of Rivas in the war between the Central American coalition and freebooter William Walker.
- 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
- 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized
- 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States
20th century
- 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio
- 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created
- 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp
- 1947 - Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in a modern-day Major League Baseball game
- 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea
- 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing début in New York City
- 1965 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people.
- 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
- 1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin
- 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched
- 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- 1981 - Brixton riot (1981)
21st century
- 2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an F-8 fighter is released.
Births
up to 19th century
- 146 - Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (d. 211)
- 1357 - King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
- 1492 - Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
- 1568 - Marin Getaldić - Croat physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
- 1723 - Franz Anton Bustelli , porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
- 1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
- 1819 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, politician (d. 1864)
- 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)
- 1889 - Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)
- 1893 - Dean Acheson, former United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
- 1896 - Wieland Herzfelde , publisher and author (d. 1989)
20th century
- 1906 - Dale Messick, cartoonist
- 1908 - Leo Rosten, humorist, author (d. 1997)
- 1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Oleg Cassini , fashion designer
- 1920 - Marlen Haushofer , author (d. 1990)
- 1928 - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy
- 1930 - Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
- 1932 - Joel Grey, singer, actor
- 1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
- 1944 - John Milius, director, writer
- 1949 - Bernd Eichinger , film producer
- 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite (d. 1997)
- 1953 - Andrew Wiles, Mathematician
- 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, prime minister of Belgium
- 1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
- 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, singer
- 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction author
- 1969 - Cerys Matthews, singer
- 1971 - Oliver Riedel, bassist for Rammstein
- 1972 - Jason Varitek, baseball player
- 1974 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
- 1987 - Joss Stone, singer
Deaths
- 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd
- 1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of the Republic of Costa Rica
- 1873 - Edward Canby, US Army General (b. 1817), assassinated at a peace conference during the Modoc War.
- 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
- 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, co-founder with Phineas Taylor Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus (b. 1847)
- 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, author (b. 1864)
- 1926 - Luther Burbank, botanist (b. 1849)
- 1970 - John O'Hara, author (b. 1905)
- 1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian statesman (b. 1908)
- 1987 - Erskine Caldwell, author (b. 1903)
- 1987 - Primo Levi, chemist, composer, librettist, author (b. 1919)
- 2001 - Harry Secombe, actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
April 10 - April 12 - March 11 - May 11 -- listing of all days
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