April 11

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

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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.
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 d�but 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.
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)
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)
1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
1819 - Charles Hall�, 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)
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
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
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, singer
1972 - Jason Varitek, baseball player
1974 - Trot Nixon, baseball player

Deaths

1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd
1856 - Juan Santamar�a, 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

1993, 2004, 2015: Easter
Anniversary of the Battle of Rivas (State holiday in Costa Rica)

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