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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.

April 11 - 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 filibuster 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
• 1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases "The Tramp".
• 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 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• 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.
• 2001 - Extreme Championship Wrestling Folds
• 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
• 2002 - Eighteen people were killed and 150-185 people were injured, some quite seriously, during the April 11 protest march against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

April 11 - Births

• 146 - Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
• 1357 - King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
• 1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)
• 1492 - Margaret of Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
• 1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
• 1705 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
• 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)
• 1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
• 1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, English soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
• 1819 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
• 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
• 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
• 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)
• 1889 - Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
• 1893 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1971)
• 1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
• 1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
• 1908 - Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
• 1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (d. 1980)
• 1913 - Oleg Cassini, French-born fashion designer
• 1914 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
• 1916 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
• 1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
• 1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
• 1931 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor
• 1932 - Joel Grey, American singer, actor, and dancer
• 1935 - Richard Berry, American singer, and composer (d. 1997)
• 1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
• 1939 - Louise Lasser, American actress
• 1944 - John Milius, American director and writer
• 1946 - Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
• 1947 - Peter Riegert, American actor
• 1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor
• 1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
• 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
• 1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
• 1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
• 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
• 1955 - Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
• 1958 - Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
• 1959 - Frank C Scott, Australian photo-journalist
• 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
• 1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician
• 1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
• 1966 - Mason Reese, American actor
• 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English singer
• 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
• 1970 - Trevor Linden, Professional Hockey Player
• 1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musican (Rammstein)
• 1972 - Jason Varitek, baseball player
• 1974 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
• 1975 - Walid Soliman, Tunisian Author
• 1980 - Mark Teixeira, baseball player
• 1982 - Ian Bell, English cricketer
• 1987 - Joss Stone, English singer

April 11 - Deaths

• 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd
• 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (executed) (b. 1521)
• 1555 - Joanna of Castile, mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1479)
• 1612 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
• 1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (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 (assassinated) (b. 1817)
• 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
• 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
• 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
• 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
• 1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1970 - John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
• 1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
• 1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian statesman (b. 1908)
• 1987 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
• 1987 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist, composer, librettist, and author (b. 1919)
• 1996 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
• 1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
• 2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
• 2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
• 2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)

April 11 - Holidays and observances

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

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