This Day in History for 11th April

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Events 1 - 100 of 187

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 at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
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 - 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 Ont, 180 die
1881 - Spelman College founded
1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1890 - Ellis Island 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 it's 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
1902 - Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
1906 - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
1907 - NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
1912 - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1914 - George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," premieres
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 Denmark's 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
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 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 Neth 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
1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
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
33rd US President Harry Truman 1951 - Pres 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 sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 - Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
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
Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 247

146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211)
1370 - Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1586 - Pietro Della Valle, composer
1602 - Johann Neukrantz, composer
1638 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer
1661 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet
1681 - Anne Danican Philidor, composer
1682 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer
1715 - John Alcock, composer
1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1735 - Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
1770 - George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1772 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1775 - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer
1779 - Louise Reichardt, composer
1793 - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1794 - Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1801 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1810 - Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
1815 - Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1837 - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
1838 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
1840 - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer
1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
1854 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent)
1856 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1859 - Basil Harwood, composer
1862 - Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 - William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1866 - Carla Ford, Henry's wife
1866 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
1867 - John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1867 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
1869 - Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1873 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1879 - Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1881 - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer
1883 - Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1888 - Donald Calthrop, London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
1889 - Nick LaRocca, US jazz coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag) (d. 1961)
1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 - Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1893 - Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
1897 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1898 - Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader)
1899 - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1901 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1901 - Theodor Rogalski, composer
1902 - Quentin Reynolds, NYC, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1904 - Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist
1904 - Paul McGrath, Chicago IL, actor (Witness, No Time for Love)
1905 - József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1907 - Paul Douglas, Phila Pa, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
1907 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher
1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
1908 - Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1908 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist
1908 - Masura Ibuka, industrialist
1910 - Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
1910 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal
1910 - Henry William Collins, artist
1911 - Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1912 - John Larkin, Oakland California, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1913 - Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1914 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
1915 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist
1916 - Alberto E Ginastera, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi)
1916 - Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1916 - Howard Koch, producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II)
1917 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1918 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
1918 - Richard Wainwright, MP
1918 - William Perrie, British prison governor
1919 - Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
1919 - Raymond Carr, Warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
1920 - Marlen Haushofer, writer
1921 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (WI batsman pre/post-war)
1921 - Virginia O'Brien, LA California, actress (Francis in the Navy)
1921 - Viscount Buckmaster
1921 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Alexander Raichev, composer
1922 - Antoine Blondin, writer
Bobby Kennedy's Wife Ethel Kennedy (1925) 1925 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
1925 - Johan van Zonderen, painter
1925 - Oscar De Ville, CEO (Meyer International)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1969 - South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
1981 - Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
1992 - Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
2009 - Tennis player champion Roger Federer (27) weds former WTA tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec (31) in Basel, Switzerland

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2007 - "Dynasty" actress Heather Locklear (45) divorces rock-star Richie Sambora (47) due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 101

678 - Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies
1034 - Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1240 - Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1500 - Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1512 - Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1648 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53
1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1729 - Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
1783 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1810 - Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
1812 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1838 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1839 - John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1842 - John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1853 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
1854 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1875 - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
1881 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1887 - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1901 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
1902 - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
1903 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1906 - James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
1918 - Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
1921 - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
Horticulturist Luther Burbank (1926) 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1936 - Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
1939 - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1945 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1947 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1952 - Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76
1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1961 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1969 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74
1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66
1970 - John H O'Hara, US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1973 - Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1974 - Curt Conway, dies
1975 - Dorothy Patten, dies at 70
1976 - Liam Dunn, dies a 59
1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1980 - Charlotte Henry, dies
1980 - Florence Lake, dies
1981 - Marie Ney, dies at 85
1983 - Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1985 - Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1985 - Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1988 - Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
1989 - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
1990 - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1990 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1991 - Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1992 - Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 - Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1992 - James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1993 - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 - Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1994 - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1996 - Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
1996 - Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89
1997 - Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52
2000 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
2007 - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 - Merlin German, United States Marine
2009 - Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (b. 1927)
2011 - La Esterella, Flemish singer (b. 1919)