April 11 Events

1241 - Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi
1512 - War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix was victorious in the Battle of Ravenna.
1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht
1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany
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
1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp.
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.
1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing début 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.
1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
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.
2001 - Extreme Championship Wrestling Folds
2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chavez began.

April 11 Births

146 - Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1357 - King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)
1492 - Margaret of Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
1705 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet (d. 1771)
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, English soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
1819 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
1852 - Cap Anson, baseball player (d. 1922)
1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)
1889 - Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
1893 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1971)
1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1908 - Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
1910 - António de Spínola, Portuguese General and politician (d. 1996)
1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (d. 1980)
1913 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1914 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
1916 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1931 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor
1932 - Joel Grey, American singer, actor, and dancer
1935 - Richard Berry, American singer, and composer (d. 1997)
1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
1939 - Louise Lasser, American actress
1944 - John Milius, American director and writer
1946 - Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
1947 - Peter Riegert, American actor
1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor
1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
1955 - Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
1958 - Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
1959 - Frank C Scott, Australian photo-journalist
1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician
1962 - Vincent Gallo, American actor
1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1966 - Mason Reese, American actor
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English singer
1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
1970 - Trevor Linden, Professional Hockey Player
1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musican (Rammstein)
1972 - Jason Varitek, baseball player
1974 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
1975 - Walid Soliman, Tunisian Author
1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
1980 - Mark Teixeira, Baseball player
1982 - Ian Bell, English cricketer
1984 - Kelli Garner, American Actress
1987 - Joss Stone, English singer

April 11 Deaths

1034 - Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 1028)
1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd
1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (executed) (b. 1521)
1555 - Joanna of Castile, mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1479)
1612 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1566)
1626 - Marin Getaldic´, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (assassinated) (b. 1817)
1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
1970 - John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian statesman (b. 1908)
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
1987 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist, composer, librettist, and author (b. 1919)
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)

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