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1034Apr 11Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), was assassinated by his wife.
1240Apr 11Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), died.
1370Apr 11Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony, was born.
1471Apr 11King Edward IV of England captured London from Henry VI in the War of the Roses.
1500Apr 11Michael T. Marullus, Greeks poet, drowned.
1512Apr 11The forces of the Holy League were heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna. France under Gaston de Foix beat the Spanish Army. Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarre throne, died in battle.
1567Apr 11Dutch Prince William of Orange fled from Antwerp to Breda.
1586Apr 11Pietro Della Valle, composer, was born.
1602Apr 11Johann Neukrantz, composer, was born.
1648Apr 11Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern (53), composer, died.
1681Apr 11Anne Danican Philidor, composer, was born.
1682Apr 11 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, was born.
1689Apr 11(OS) William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain. As part of their oaths, the new King William III and Queen Mary were required to swear that they would obey the laws of Parliament. At this time, the Bill of Rights was read to both William and Mary. “We thankfully accept what you have offered us,” William replied, agreeing to be subject to law and to be guided in his actions by the decisions of Parliament.
1713Apr 11Spain ceded Gibraltar in perpetuity to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht.
1722Apr 11Christopher Smart, English journalist and poet, was born.
1741Apr 11A Russian commission found regent Count Biron guilty of treason and sentenced him to death by quartering. The sentence was commuted to banishment for life in Siberia.
1755Apr 11James Parkinson, English physician, was born.
1770Apr 11George Canning, British prime minister (1827), was born.
1772Apr 11Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author, poet (El Duque de Viseo), was born.
1783Apr 11After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on 13 March, Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1794Apr 11Edward Everett, governor of Massachusetts, statesman and orator, was born.
1801Apr 11Johann von Schiller’s “Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans),” premieres in Leipzig.
1814Apr 11Napoleon Bonaparte (45) abdicated at Fontainebleau a 2nd time and was banished to the island of Elba, a small island in the Mediterranean, retaining the title of emperor and 400 volunteers to act as his guard. He was granted sovereignty over Elba and a pension from the French government.
1839Apr 11John Galt (59), Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), died.
1853Apr 11A steam line burst on SF Bay ferry Jenny Lind as it made its way from Alviso to San Francisco. 31 passengers were killed.
1856Apr 11Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beat William Walker’s invading Nicaraguans.
1859Apr 11Basil Harwood, composer, was born.
1861Apr 11Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard ordered the Federals under the command of Major Robert Anderson to surrender Fort Sumter, but Anderson refused. Anticipating war between North and South, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had ordered Beauregard to clear the harbor forts in Charleston, South Carolina, of Union troops. For three long months, Anderson and his besieged troops had waited for reinforcements at Fort Sumter. Back in Washington, Union naval officer Gustavus Fox raced against time to organize just such a mission.
1862Apr 11Rebels surrendered Ft Pulaski, Georgia.
1863Apr 11Battle of Suffolk, VA (Norfleet House).
1865Apr 11Lincoln urged a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction.
1871Apr 11James Burns (1808-1871), Scottish publisher and author, died. He had founded The Englishman’s Library in the 1840s, a series that went up to 31 volumes.
1875Apr 11Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer of the 11-year sunspot cycle, died.
1876Apr 11General Sir Charles (“Chinese”) Gordon ended religious tolerance in Sudan.
1881Apr 11River ferry “Princess Victoria” sank in Thames River, Ontario, and 180 died.
1886Apr 11General Nelson A. Miles arrived at Fort Bowie, Ariz., to begin his assignment to subjugate or destroy a band of Apaches led by Geronimo.
1889Apr 11Nick La Rocca, US cornetist, composer (Tiger Rag), was born.
1890Apr 11Ellis Island was designated as an immigration station.
1891Apr 11A Jewish tailor’s daughter (8) disappeared in Greece. A rumor spread that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews.
1893Apr 11Dean G. Acheson, U.S. secretary of state (1949-53), was born. He helped create NATO.
1895Apr 11Anaheim, Ca., completed its new electric light system.
1898Apr 11American President McKinley asked Congress to authorize military intervention in Cuba. The war was fomented by New York newspapers in their own battle for circulation.
1899Apr 11Percy L. Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis), was born.
1900Apr 11US Navy’s 1st submarine made its debut.
1901Apr 11Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer, manufacturer (typewriter), was born.
1901Apr 11Glenway Wescott, writer, was born.
1902Apr 11Wade Hampton (1818), Confederate Civil War general and post-war governor of South Carolina (1877-1879), died. In 2008 Rod Andrew Jr. authored Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman.”
1906Apr 11Einstein introduced his Theory of Relativity. [see 1905]
1908Apr 11Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague, Toronto), was born.
1909Apr 11Tel Aviv began as a suburb of Jaffa. While Palestine was still under Ottoman rule, sixty-six Jewish families took possession of lots in Karm al-Jabali, on the northern outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa near the Mediterranean coast amidst dunes, vineyards, and orchards. There they established a “garden suburb” called Ahuzat Bayit (“Homestead”), which in 2010 was renamed Tel Aviv, or Hill of Spring.
1914Apr 11George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” premiered.
1916Apr 11Alberto E. Ginastera, composer (Panambi), was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1917Apr 11Babe Ruth beat NY Yanks, pitching to a 3-hit, 10-3 win for Red Sox.
1921Apr 11Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
1924Apr 11WLS-AM in Chicago IL began radio transmissions.
1925Apr 11Ethel Kennedy, wife of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was born.
1926Apr 11Gervase de Peyer, clarinetist, was born.
1932Apr 11Joel Grey (Joe Katz), actor, was born.
1933Apr 11Hermann Goering became premier of Prussia.
1934Apr 11Richard A. Garland, artist, photographer, was born.
1936Apr 11Rodgers’ & Hammerstein’s musical “On Your Toes,” premiered in NYC.
1939Apr 11SS Van Dine (50), [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, died.
1941Apr 11Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, was born.
1942 Apr 11Detachment 101 of the OSS, a guerrilla force, was activated in Burma.
1943Apr 11Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flew his 1st (single-rotor) craft.
1945Apr 11After two frustrating days of being repulsed and absorbing tremendous casualties, the Red Army took the Seelow Heights north of Berlin.
1947Apr 11Jackie Robinson played in an exhibition between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees, the first Negro to play in Major league baseball. Jackie Robinson became the first black to play major league baseball as he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson officially broke baseball’s color barrier when he put on Dodgers uniform No. 42 in April 1947. When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, talented black athletes toiled in relative obscurity in the Negro leagues despite the exciting caliber of their play. Brooklyn Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey first approached Jackie Robinson in August 1945 to participate in the “great experiment” of integrating the major leagues.
1950Apr 11Bill Irwin, actor and choreographer, was born.
1951Apr 11President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East. President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur.
1953Apr 11Oveta Culp Hobby became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
1955Apr 11Just before the Bandung conference, an apparent attempt to kill China’s then-Premier Zhou Enlai resulted in the deadly crash of a chartered Air India plane. Declassified Chinese documents have suggested that Taiwanese agents placed the bomb in the mistaken belief that Zhou was on board. The device detonated as the Lockheed Constellation, named Kashmiri Princess, was descending north of Jakarta. It caused a fire that forced the pilots to ditch the airliner. The co-pilot, flight engineer and navigator managed to swim to safety, but 16 other passengers and crew members drowned. They included six journalists and Air India’s chief pilot, Capt. D.K. Jatar.
1956Apr 11Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” went gold.
1957Apr 11The Ryan X-13 Vertijet became the 1st jet to take-off and land vertically.
1959Apr 11“Jamaica” closed at Imperial Theater in NYC after 558 performances.
1961Apr 11Folk singer Bob Dylan performed in New York City for the first time, opening for John Lee Hooker.
1963Apr 11John XXIII put forth his encyclical “On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty.”
1964Apr 11The Bangladesh Observer (East Pakistan) reported that as many as 500 people may have died as a tornado destroyed villages in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore.
1965Apr 11A series of tornados left 256 people dead in the US Midwest.
1967Apr 11Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead,” was performed by the Royal National Theater at London’s Old Vic Theater. It had premiered on Aug 26, 1966, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1968Apr 11Riots erupted in West Berlin after the shooting of student leader Rudi Dutschke (1940-1979). He survived the assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist, living for another twelve years until related health problems caused his death.
1970Apr 11John H. O’Hara (b.1905), US journalist and novelist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), died. In 2003 Geoffrey Wolff authored “The Art of Burning Bridges: The Life of John O’Hara.”
1974Apr 11The US House Judiciary Committee votes 33-3 to issue a subpoena ordering Nixon to turn over all tape recordings and related materials on 42 conversations.
1976Apr 11In Cambodia Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan (b.1931) succeeded Prince Sihanouk as premier. In 1979 he was succeeded by Heng Samrin.
1977Apr 11Jacques Prevert (b.1900), French poet (La puil et le beau), died.
1979Apr 11Chinese diplomats of Cambodia crossed into Thailand after a 15-day, 125-mile escape from the Vietnamese Army. In 1992 “Chinese Diplomats in International Crisis Situations” was authored by Yun Shui. An English translation came out in 2003.
1980Apr 11Mother Jones magazine won the 1980 national Magazine Award for Reporting Excellence for a Nov. 1979 article by Mark Dowie on the export of hazardous products banned from the US.
1981Apr 11President Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after John W. Hinckley Jr. shot him in an assassination attempt.
1982Apr 11Ronald Allen (32), a member of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, Ca., was found shot to death on Easter morning near the Berkeley dump. A day earlier the father of 5 had gone out for a meal with his bakery brethren.
1983Apr 11In the 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! won.
1984Apr 11Konstantin U. Chernenko (1911-1985) was named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
1985Apr 11Enver Hoxha (b.1908), Albania’s Stalinist dictator, died. He was succeeded by Ramiz Alia (b.1925).
1986Apr 11Halley’s Comet made its closest approach to Earth this trip at 63 M km.
1987Apr 11Erskine Caldwell (83), Georgia-born novelist (Tobacco Road), died.
1988Apr 11Hijackers of a Kuwait Airways jetliner killed a second hostage, dumping his body onto the ground in Larnaca, Cyprus.
1989Apr 11Mexican officials unearthed the remains of 12 of 13 victims of a drug-trafficking cult near Matamoros. The dead included University of Texas student Mark Kilroy, who had disappeared while on spring break.
1990Apr 11Funeral services were held in Indianapolis for AIDS patient Ryan White, who had died three days earlier at age 18. Among the 1,500 mourners were first lady Barbara Bush and singers Elton John and Michael Jackson.
1991Apr 11The musical “Miss Saigon,” denounced by detractors as racist and sexist, opened on Broadway.
1992Apr 11The Russian Congress of People’s Deputies rejected an appeal by President Boris Yeltsin for another six months to carry out his reforms, ordering him to select a new Cabinet by July; a compromise was worked out a few days later.
1993Apr 11A deadly riot erupted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio; one guard and nine inmates were killed during the 11-day siege.
1994Apr 11The White House disclosed that President and Mrs. Clinton had failed to report $6,498 in income that the first lady made in commodities trading in 1980; the couple wrote checks totaling $14,615 in back taxes and interest.
1995Apr 11Pres. Clinton expressed sympathy for Pakistan’s anger over the blocked sale of American fighter jets, telling visiting PM Benazir Bhutto that it was “not right” for the United States to keep the planes and refuse to give the money back. Pakistan received jets in 2005
1996Apr 11Chlorine spilled from a train and caused the people of Alberton, Montana, to flee for a day.
1997Apr 11In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ’s burial cloth.
1998Apr 11The executive committee of the Ulster Union Party voted 55-23 to support the Northern Ireland peace accord and its leader, David Trimble, who had outmaneuvered rebels in his ranks.
1999Apr 11Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters by two shots over Davis Love III.
2000Apr 11Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with President Clinton at the White House in what a senior US official described as a good, productive, serious discussion.
2001Apr 11In northern India 8 Islamic separatists and 2 government soldiers were killed in gun battles in Jammu and Kashmir.
2002Apr 11US Sec. of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel to push for peace talks. Israel sent tanks and troops into 2 more Palestinian villages. A Palestinian suicide bomber died when his explosives blew up prematurely.
2003Apr 11US Congress approved a $2.2 trillion budget with Vice pres. Cheney casting the tie-breaking vote. It limited a tax cut to half of what Pres. Bush proposed.
2004Apr 11Pres. Bush defended his response to a briefing memo from August 2001 about possible terrorist plots against the US, saying he was “satisfied that some of the matters were being looked into” and that there were no specific threats against New York and Washington.
2005Apr 11During a meeting at his Texas ranch, President Bush told Israeli PM Ariel Sharon he could not allow further West Bank settlement growth and said Israeli and Palestinian doubts about each other were hampering peace prospects.
2006Apr 11In New Jersey a jury awarded $9 million in punitive damages to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx, finding that manufacturer Merck & Co. failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians.
2007Apr 11The US Pentagon extended Iraq and Afghan tours of duty for all troops from 12 months to 15 months.
2008Apr 11G7 finance officials endorsed a plan to prevent financial crises and reiterated its demand that Beijing allow the yuan to rise. They also issued a warning to financial markets that they won’t sit by and watch the dollar continue to slide.
2009Apr 11In Louisiana gunmen kicked down an apartment door and opened fire killing 2 children and a woman in Terrytown.
2010Apr 11In Texas more than 20,000 people gathered at tailgate parties and other spots to watch fireworks go off one last time over Texas Stadium before a ton of dynamite lit up the Dallas Cowboys’ longtime home and brought it to the ground. The Cowboys played 38 seasons in Texas Stadium, winning five Super Bowls during that time.
2011Apr 11US federal prosecutors said 10 people, including two former basketball players and a former assistant coach at the University of San Diego, have been indicted in connection with a scheme to fix games since 2008.
2012Apr 11In southern California Chinese USC graduate students Qu Ming and Wu Ying, both 23, were shot and killed during a suspected bungled carjacking. On Oct 27, 2014, Javier Bolden (22) was convicted of 1st degree murder.
2013Apr 11California became the latest state to place restrictions on the chemical known as Bisphenol-A (BPA) and declare it a reproductive toxicant.
2014Apr 11G-20 financial officials met in Washington DC and pledged to keep working on economic reforms that could increase growth by 2 percent over the next five years. The G-20 also endorsed the $14 billion to $18 billion loan package that the IMF has developed to help Ukraine avoid a financial collapse.
Source: Timelines of History    

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