April 11

April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1512 - Battle of Ravenna[?]
• 1713 - End of the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War in North America).
• 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.
• 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
• 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks[?] is organized
• 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States
• 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio
• 1941 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Coventry, England
• 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
• 1968 - Lyndon 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 China after a collision with an F-8[?] fighter is released.

Births

• 146 - Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (+ 211)
• 1492 - Margaret of Navarre[?], Queen of Navarre and writer (+ 1549)
• 1723 - Franz Anton Bustelli[?], porcelain moulder (+ 1763)
• 1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (+ 1895)
• 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, politician (+ 1864)
• 1866 - Annie Sullivan[?], teacher of Helen Keller (+ 1936)
• 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (+ 1943)
• 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (+ 1951)
• 1893 - Dean Acheson, former United States Secretary of STate[?] (+ 1971)
• 1896 - Wieland Herzfelde[?], publisher and author (+ 1989)
• 1906 - Dale Messick[?], cartoonist
• 1908 - Leo Rosten[?], humorist, author (+ 1997)
• 1913 - Oleg Cassini[?], fashion designer
• 1920 - Marlen Haushofer[?], author (+ 1990)
• 1930 - Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (+ 1997)
• 1932 - Joel Grey[?], singer, actor
• 1944 - John Milius[?], director, writer
• 1949 - Bernd Eichinger[?], film producer
• 1953 - Andrew Wiles, Mathematician
• 1966 - Lisa Stansfield[?], singer

Deaths

• 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• 1916 - Richard Harding Davis[?], author
• 1917 - Scott Joplin, composer, musician
• 1926 - Luther Burbank[?], botanist
• 1970 - John O'Hara, author
• 1987 - Erskine Caldwell[?], author
• 1987 - Primo Levi, chemist, composer, librettist, author
• 2001 - Harry Secombe, actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show

Holidays and observances