Notable Historical Events on April 11th
April 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
491 |
Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. |
672 |
Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1079 |
Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. |
1471 |
King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI |
1512 |
Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars |
1551 |
English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland |
1564 |
England & France sign Peace of Troyes |
1564 |
Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns |
1567 |
Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda |
1579 |
Venlo joins Union of Utrecht |
1580 |
Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht |
1677 |
Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III |
1689 |
William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain |
1713 |
Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty |
1775 |
The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place. |
1801 |
Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" premieres in Leipzig |
1814 |
Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba |
1828 |
Foundation of Bahia Blanca. |
1830 |
Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini |
1848 |
Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Aust |
1856 |
Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans |
1862 |
Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender |
1863 |
Battle of Suffolk, VA (Norfleet House) |
1865 |
Battle of Mobile, AL - evacuated by Confederates |
1865 |
Abraham Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction |
1868 |
The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. |
1876 |
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes |
1876 |
Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan |
1881 |
River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River, Ontario, 180 die |
1881 |
Spelman College founded |
1888 |
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. |
1890 |
Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station |
1891 |
8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews |
1895 |
Anaheim completes its new electric light system |
1898 |
President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration |
1899 |
Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US |
1900 |
US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut |
1900 |
The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy |
1902 |
Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa |
1907 |
NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards |
1912 |
RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY |
1912 |
Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid |
1912 |
The British Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons; Protestants in Ulster resist |
1914 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" premieres |
1914 |
Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US |
1917 |
Babe Ruth beats NY Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox |
1919 |
The International Labour Organization is founded. |
1921 |
Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax |
1921 |
KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee) |
1921 |
Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR |
1921 |
First sports broadcast on the radio takes place. |
1921 |
The Emirate of Transjordan is created. |
1924 |
1st men's college swimming championships begin |
1924 |
Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections |
1924 |
WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions |
1925 |
Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco |
1926 |
Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent |
1927 |
Chilean gen Carlos Ibáñez names himself president |
1929 |
KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions |
1929 |
Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam |
1933 |
Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia |
1936 |
Rodgers & Hart's musical "On Your Toes" premieres in NYC |
1936 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
1939 |
Hungary leaves League of Nations |
1941 |
Germany blitzes Conventry, England |
1941 |
Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis |
1941 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets |
1942 |
Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized |
1943 |
Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft |
1944 |
RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague |
1945 |
Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum |
1945 |
SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen |
1945 |
US captures Tsugen Shima |
1945 |
US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" |
1945 |
US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen |
1948 |
12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279 |
1950 |
Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco |
1950 |
US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia |
1951 |
US President Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur |
1952 |
The Battle of Nanri island takes place. |
1953 |
Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare |
1954 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open |
1955 |
Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted |
1955 |
The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. |
1956 |
French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria |
1956 |
Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident |
1957 |
Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires |
1957 |
Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically |
1957 |
Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule. |
1958 |
Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF) |
1959 |
"Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances |
1959 |
Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR |
1959 |
Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory |
1961 |
Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem |
1961 |
Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village |
1961 |
15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1 |
1961 |
Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel |
1961 |
Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns |
1961 |
Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II crimes trial |
1962 |
New York Mets make a losing debut |
1963 |
John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty |
1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty) |
1964 |
"Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 perfs |
1965 |
29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271 |
1965 |
40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000 |
1966 |
30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288 |
1966 |
Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire |
1967 |
"Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 perfs |
1967 |
Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr |
1967 |
Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" premieres |
1968 |
Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president |
1968 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act |
1968 |
W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration |
1968 |
WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days |
1970 |
Beatles' "Let It Be" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
1970 |
SF beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970 |
1971 |
"Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance |
1971 |
35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279 |
1971 |
WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC |
1972 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1974 |
WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested |
1975 |
Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer) |
1975 |
JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers |
1976 |
40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271 |
1976 |
The Apple I is created. |
1977 |
Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile |
1979 |
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala |
1980 |
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment |
1980 |
Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up" |
1981 |
Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1981 |
Race riot in London area of Brixton |
1981 |
Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him |
1982 |
46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284 |
1982 |
Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2 |
1983 |
3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins |
1983 |
47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280 |
1983 |
55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win |
1983 |
NASA launches RCA-F |
1983 |
In the first 'supergrass' trial in Northern Ireland, fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years |
1984 |
Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair |
1984 |
Chinese troops invade Vietnam |
1984 |
Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named pres of Soviet Union |
1984 |
Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth |
1984 |
USSR party leader Chernenko elected president |
1985 |
Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead |
1986 |
A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000 |
1986 |
Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days |
1986 |
Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km |
1986 |
KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM |
1987 |
Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals |
1987 |
Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) |
1988 |
Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens |
1988 |
60th Academy Awards - "The Last Emperor", Michael Douglas & Cher win |
1989 |
1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Philadelphia |
1989 |
Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5 |
1990 |
Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0 |
1990 |
NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51) |
1990 |
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary |
1990 |
Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. |
1991 |
"Miss Saigon" opens at Broadway Theater NYC |
1991 |
NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television" |
1991 |
Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands |
1991 |
UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration |
1992 |
BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence |
1992 |
Euro-Disney opens near Paris |
1992 |
Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6½ hr) |
1992 |
Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 |
1993 |
57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277 |
1993 |
Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) |
1993 |
Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie |
1993 |
450 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. It was Easter Sunday. |
1996 |
"King & I" premieres at Neil Simon Theater in NYC for 781 perform |
1996 |
Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season |
1999 |
63rd Golf Masters Championship: José María Olazábal wins, shooting a 280 |
2000 |
AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open. |
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 J-8 fighter is released. |
2002 |
The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. |
2002 |
An attempted coup d'état takes place in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez . |
2004 |
68th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 279 |
2005 |
39th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson & Kenny Chesney wins |
2006 |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. |
2007 |
2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others. |
2010 |
74th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 272 |
2011 |
Minsk Metro bombing |
2012 |
8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia |
2012 |
2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer |
2012 |
South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance |
2012 |
Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6 |
2012 |
Billionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancer |
2013 |
14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico |
2013 |
57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria |
2013 |
Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea |
2013 |
Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China |
2014 |
2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens |
2016 |
Warriors Tie Record With 72nd Win, End Spurs' Home Streak |
2016 |
Egypt Gives Saudi Arabia 2 Islands in a Show of Gratitude |
2016 |
Kerry joins other G7 foreign ministers at Hiroshima A-bomb museum |
2016 |
N Korea senior intelligence officer 'defects to South' |
2017 |
Egyptian police kill seven suspected Islamic State militants in shootout |
2017 |
California gunman kills wife, self as she teaches class; student also dead |
2017 |
White House threatens Syria with more strikes if chemical weapons are used |
2017 |
Alabama governor resigns, pleads guilty to misdemeanors |
2017 |
Man filmed being dragged off United flight causes outrage in China |
2017 |
Neil Gorsuch Sworn In As 9th Justice On The Supreme Court |
2017 |
US, Mexico, Canada join to launch 2026 World Cup bid |
2017 |
North Korea issues warning as US strike group heads to Korean Peninsula |
2018 |
Oklahoma teachers rally at capitol as walkout enters 7th day |
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