April 11

April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining.

Events

• 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.
• 1827 – The Greek national assembly at Troezene elected Capo d'Istria president of the republic.
• 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
• 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)
• 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

• 146 – Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
• 1357 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
• 1373 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March
• 1492 – Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
• 1568 – Marin Getaldić – Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
• 1723 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
• 1755 – James Parkinson, English physician
• 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, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1971)
• 1896 – Wieland Herzfelde, publisher and author (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Dale Messick, cartoonist (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Leo Rosten, humorist, author (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Oleg Cassini, fashion designer
• 1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Marlen Haushofer, author (d. 1990)
• 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
• 1930 – Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor
• 1932 – Joel Grey, singer, actor, and dancer
• 1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist, broadcaster
• 1935 – Richard Berry, American singer, and composer (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass
• 1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
• 1944 – John Milius, director, writer
• 1946 – Bob Harris, Briths disc jockey and presenter
• 1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
• 1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor
• 1949 – Bernd Eichinger, film producer
• 1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
• 1951 – James Patrick Kelly, author
• 1953 – Andrew Wiles, mathematician
• 1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
• 1955 – Julie Czerneda, author
• 1955 – Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
• 1957 – Marina Fitch, author
• 1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
• 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, journalist
• 1961 – Doug Hopkins, musician
• 1966 – Lisa Stansfield, singer
• 1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
• 1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction author
• 1971 – Oliver Riedel, musican (Rammstein)
• 1972 – Jason Varitek, baseball player
• 1974 – Trot Nixon, baseball player
• 1987 – Joss Stone, singer

Deaths

• 1240 – Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd
• 1555 – Joanna of Castile, mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1479)
• 1856 – Juan Santamaría, national hero ofCosta Rica
• 1873 – Edward Canby, U.S. general (assassinated) (b. 1817)
• 1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
• 1906  – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
• 1916 – Richard Harding Davis, author (b. 1864)
• 1926 – Luther Burbank, botanist (b. 1849)
• 1970 – John O'Hara, author (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress
• 1983 – Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress
• 1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian statesman (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Erskine Caldwell, author (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Primo Levi, chemist, composer, librettist, and author (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Jessica Dubroff, American pilot
• 1999 – Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress
• 2001 – Harry Secombe, actor and comedian (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• 1993, 2004, 2066: Easter
• Anniversary of the Battle of Rivas (State holiday in Costa Rica)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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