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April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 264 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor , with the name of Anastasius I .1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland .1241 - Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi .1512 - War of the League of Cambrai : French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna .1689 - William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain .1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War ): Treaty of Utrecht .1775 - The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.1814 - The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte , and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca .1856 - In Rivas , Nicaragua , Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker 's filibusters are holed up.1865 - President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.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 .1905 - Albert Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity ).1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
1945 - World War II : American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp .1951 - Korean War : President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea .1951 - The Stone of Scone , the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey . It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey .
1952 - The Battle of Nanri island takes place.1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang .1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.1961 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem .1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 : Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.1968 - President 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 1976 - The Apple I is created.1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.1981 - A massive riot in Brixton , South London , results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan .1990 - Customs officers in Middlesbrough , United Kingdom , say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq .1993 - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville , Ohio , and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions , as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis ) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday .2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco , Minute Maid Park in Houston , and Comerica Park in Detroit open.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 J-8 fighter is released.2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia .2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place.
2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium .2007 - 2007 Algiers bombings : Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers , kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
Births
146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211 )1357 - John I of Portugal (d. 1433 )1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398 )1492 - Marguerite of Navarre , wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549 )1592 - John Eliot , English statesman (d. 1632 )1721 - David Zeisberger , Moravian missionary (d. 1808 )1722 - Christopher Smart , English poet (d. 1771 )1755 - James Parkinson , English physician (d. 1824 )1769 - Jean Lannes , French marshal (d. 1809 )1770 - George Canning , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827 )1794 - Edward Everett , 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865 )1798 - Macedonio Melloni , Italian physicist (d. 1854 )1810 - Henry Rawlinson , English scholar (d. 1895 )1819 - Charles Hallé , German pianist and conductor (d. 1895 )1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle , German politician (d. 1864 )1852 - Cap Anson , American baseball player (d. 1922 )1862 - Charles Evans Hughes , 11th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948 )1862 - William Wallace Campbell , American astronomer (d. 1938 )
1866 - Bernard O'Dowd , Australian poet (d. 1953 )1867 - Mark Keppel , Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928 )1869 - Kasturba Gandhi , Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944 )1869 - Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943 )
1873 - Edward Lawson , Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955 )1876 - Paul Henry , Northern Irish artist (d. 1958 )1889 - Nick LaRocca , American musician (d. 1961 )1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini , wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979 )1893 - Dean Acheson , American statesman (d. 1971 )1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers , Quebec novelist (d. 1967 )1899 - Percy Lavon Julian , American chemist (d. 1975 )1900 - Sandor Marai , Hungarian writer (d. 1989 )1905 - József Attila , Hungarian poet (d. 1937 )1906 - Dale Messick , American cartoonist (d. 2005 )1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas , English farmer and entrepreneur (d. 2001 )1908 - Jane Bolin , first African-American woman judge (d. 2007 )1908 - Masaru Ibuka , Japanese industrialist (Sony ) (d. 1997 )
1908 - Dan Maskell , English tennis commentator (d. 1992 )
1908 - Leo Rosten , American humorist and author (d. 1997 )
1910 - António de Spínola , Portuguese politician (d. 1996 )1911 - Stanisława Walasiewicz , Polish runner (d. 1980 )1913 - Oleg Cassini , American fashion designer (d. 2006 )1914 - Norman McLaren , Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987 )1914 - Robert Stanfield , Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003 )
1916 - Alberto Ginastera , Argentine composer (d. 1983 )1916 - Howard W. Koch , American film director (d. 2001 )
1917 - Danny Gallivan , Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993 )1917 - David Westheimer , American novelist (d. 2005 )
1918 - Richard Wainwright , English politician (d. 2003 )1921 - Jim Hearn , American baseball player (d. 1998 )1923 - George J. Maloof, Sr. , American businessman (d. 1980 )1925 - Pierre Péladeau , Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor ) (d. 1997 )1926 - Victor Bouchard , Quebec pianist and composer1928 - Ethel Kennedy , wife of Robert F. Kennedy 1930 - Anton LaVey , American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997 )1931 - Johnny Sheffield , American actor1931 - Koichi Sugiyama , Japanese composer
1932 - Joel Grey , American singer and actor1933 - Tony Brown , American journalist1934 - Mark Strand , Canadian-born American poet1935 - Richard Berry , American singer and composer (d. 1997 )1935 - Richard Kuklinski , American mafia hitman (d. 2006 )
1938 - Michael Deaver , Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007 )1938 - Kurt Moll , German bass
1939 - Louise Lasser , American actress1941 - Ellen Goodman , American political columnist1941 - Shirley Stelfox , English actress
1943 - Harley Race , American professional wrestler1944 - John Milius , American director and writer1946 - Bob Harris , British disc jockey and presenter1947 - Peter Riegert , American actor1947 - Meshach Taylor , American actor
1947 - Lev Bulat , Russian physicist
1948 - Marcello Lippi , Italian football coach1949 - Bernd Eichinger , German film producer1949 - Carl Franklin , American actor
1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton , American socialite (d. 1997 )1951 - Paul Fox , English guitarist (The Ruts ) (d. 2007 )
1951 - James Patrick Kelly , American author
1952 - Peter Windsor , English motor racing journalist and reporter1953 - Andrew Wiles , British mathematician1953 - Guy Verhofstadt , Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 - Kevin Brady , American politician1955 - Michael Callen , American musician (d. 1993 )
1958 - Stuart Adamson , British musician (Big Country ) (d. 2001 )1958 - Brynn Hartman , American murderer (d. 1998 )
1960 - Jeremy Clarkson , British journalist1961 - Doug Hopkins , American musician1962 - Vincent Gallo , American actor1963 - Chris Ferguson , American poker player1963 - Billy Bowden , New Zealand umpire
1964 - Steve Azar , American singer-songwriter1964 - Bret Saberhagen , American baseball player
1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch , American cellist
1966 - Mason Reese , American actor1966 - Dustin Patrick Runnels , American professional wrestler
1966 - Lisa Stansfield , English singer
1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko , Russian author1969 - Cerys Matthews , Welsh singer1969 - Chisato Moritaka , Japanese singer
1970 - Trevor Linden , Canadian ice hockey player1970 - Delroy Pearson , former singer, Five Star 1970 - Johnny Messner , American actor
1971 - Oliver Riedel , German musician (Rammstein )1971 - Vicellous Reon Shannon , American actor
1972 - Jason Varitek , American baseball player1972 - Balls Mahoney , American professional wrestler
1973 - Jennifer Esposito , American television actor1974 - Àlex Corretja , Spanish tennis player1974 - Ashot Danielyan , Armenian weightlifter
1974 - Anton Glanzelius , Danish actor
1974 - Tricia Helfer , Canadian model and actor
1974 - Zöe Lucker , British television actor
1974 - Trot Nixon , American baseball player
1975 - Walid Soliman , Tunisian author1978 - Brett Claywell , American actor1978 - Josh Hancock , American baseball player (d. 2007 )
1978 - Tom Thacker , Canadian musician
1979 - Malcolm Christie , English footballer1979 - Nazanin Afshin-Jam , Canadian beauty pageant winner
1979 - Chris Gaylor , American drummer
1979 - Michel Riesen , Swiss ice hockey player
1979 - Josh Server , American actor
1979 - Sebastien Grainger , Canadian musician
1980 - Keiji Tamada , Japanese footballer1980 - Mark Teixeira , American baseball player
1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio , Brazilian model1981 - Alexandre Burrows , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Ian Bell , English cricketer1983 - Nicky Pastorelli , Dutch racing driver1984 - Kelli Garner , American actress1985 - Will Minson , Australian rules footballer1986 - Roman Heart , American porn actor1987 - Joss Stone , English singer1994 - Dakota Blue Richards , English actress2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich , American actress
Deaths
1034 - Romanus III , Byzantine emperor (b. 968 )1240 - Llywelyn the Great , King of Gwynedd 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger , English rebel (b. 1521 )1612 - Emanuel van Meteren , Flemish historian (b. 1535 )1612 - Edward Wightman , English Baptist preacher (b. 1566 )
1626 - Marin Getaldić , Croatian mathematician (b. 1568 )1712 - Richard Simon , French Biblical critic (b. 1638 )1723 - John Robinson , English diplomat (b. 1650 )1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler , German poet (b. 1725 )1856 - Juan Santamaría , national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831 )1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra , Mexican poet (b. 1824 )1873 - Edward Canby , U.S. general (b. 1817 )1890 - Joseph Merrick , "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862 )1894 - Constantin Lipsius , German architect (b. 1832 )1906 - James Anthony Bailey , American circus impresario (b. 1847 )1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher (b. 1839 )
1908 - Henry Bird , English Chess player and author (b. 1829 )1916 - Richard Harding Davis , American author (b. 1864 )1926 - Luther Burbank , American botanist (b. 1849 )1947 - Louise Peete , American murderess (b. 1880 )1953 - Kid Nichols , American baseball player (b. 1869 )1958 - Konstantin Yuon , Russian painter (b. 1875 )1967 - Donald Sangster , Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911 )1970 - Cathy O'Donnell , American actress (b. 1923 )1970 - John O'Hara , American author (b. 1905 )
1977 - Jacques Prévert , French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900 )1983 - Dolores del Rio , Mexican actress (b. 1905 )1985 - Enver Hoxha , Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908 )1985 - Bunny Ahearne , British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900 )
1987 - Erskine Caldwell , American author (b. 1903 )1987 - Primo Levi , Italian chemist and author (b. 1919 )
1990 - Harold Ballard , Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903 )1990 - Xenophon Zolotas , Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904 )
1991 - Walker Cooper , American baseball player (b. 1915 )1992 - Alejandro Obregón , Colombian painter (b. 1920 )1992 - Eve Merriam , American playwright, director, and poet (b. 1916 )1996 - Jessica Dubroff , American pilot (b. 1988 )2000 - Diana Darvey , British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945 )2001 - Sandy Bull , American musician (b. 1941 )2001 - Harry Secombe , Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921 )
2003 - Cecil Howard Green , British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900 )2005 - André François , French cartoonist (b. 1915 )2005 - Lucien Laurent , French footballer (b. 1907 )
2006 - June Pointer , American singer (Pointer Sisters ) (b. 1953 )2006 - Proof , American rapper (D12 ) (b. 1973 )
2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne , American actor (b. 1925 )2007 - Kurt Vonnegut , American author (b. 1922 )
2007 - Ronald Speirs , American Army officer(CO of Easy Company ) (b. 1920 )
2007 - Janet McDonald , American novelist (b. 1954 )
2008 - Merlin German , United States Marine
Holidays and observances
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