April 11

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

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.
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
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
1965 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak occurred. Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people.
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 Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an F-8 fighter is released.