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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL EIGHT-TRACK TAPE DAY
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht is agreed.
NATIONAL EIGHT-TRACK TAPE DAY
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht is agreed.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island begins between the Republic of China Army (ROCA) and the People's Liberatin Army (PLA) over the People's Republic of China.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island begins between the Republic of China Army (ROCA) and the People's Liberatin Army (PLA) over the People's Republic of China.
1961 – The trial of Otto Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. He was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) during WWII and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.
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.
1970 – The seventh manned mission in NASA's Apollo (moon) space program, Apollo 13, is launched. The mission had to skip it's planned moon landing and return to Earth on April 17th due to an explosion in an oxygen tank that disabled the service module.
1979 – Ugandan dictator and sociopath, Idi Amin, is deposed after 8 years of bloody rule.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. A fire that killed a number of residents, though determined to be accidental, was seen as deliberately set by the local citiziens which initially sparked the riots.
1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs. ― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLa3q9V9j4
1993 – Four hundred fifty 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.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
BORN TODAY
1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer and conductor (d. 1738)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1938 – Reatha King, American chemist and businesswoman
2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
BORN TODAY
1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer and conductor (d. 1738)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1938 – Reatha King, American chemist and businesswoman
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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