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Events on the 11th of April in history

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11 Apr 0491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
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11 Apr 0672 Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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11 Apr 0678 Donus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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11 Apr 1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
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11 Apr 1241 Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
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11 Apr 1471 King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
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11 Apr 1512 War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
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11 Apr 1512 Battle at Ravenna France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
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11 Apr 1544 French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
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11 Apr 1551 English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland
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11 Apr 1564 England & France sign Peace of Troyes
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11 Apr 1564 Liege Prince-Bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
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11 Apr 1567 Dutch Prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
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11 Apr 1580 Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
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11 Apr 1677 Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
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11 Apr 1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
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11 Apr 1689 William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
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11 Apr 1713 War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
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11 Apr 1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty
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11 Apr 1727 Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
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11 Apr 1801 Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans", premieres in Leipzig
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11 Apr 1809 Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
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11 Apr 1814 The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
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11 Apr 1814 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
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11 Apr 1830 Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
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11 Apr 1848 Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Austria
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11 Apr 1856 Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
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11 Apr 1856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
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11 Apr 1862 Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender
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11 Apr 1862 Rebels surrender Fort Pulaski GA
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11 Apr 1863 Battle of Suffolk VA (Norfleet House)
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11 Apr 1865 Battle of Mobile AL - evacuated by Confederates
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11 Apr 1865 Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
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11 Apr 1868 Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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11 Apr 1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
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11 Apr 1876 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
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11 Apr 1881 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
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11 Apr 1881 Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
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11 Apr 1881 Spelman College founded
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11 Apr 1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
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11 Apr 1890 Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
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11 Apr 1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
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11 Apr 1895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system
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11 Apr 1898 President William McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
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11 Apr 1899 Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
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11 Apr 1900 US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut
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11 Apr 1902 Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
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11 Apr 1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
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11 Apr 1907 New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
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11 Apr 1908 SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.
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11 Apr 1909 The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
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11 Apr 1912 Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
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11 Apr 1913 The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
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11 Apr 1914 George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", premieres
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11 Apr 1917 Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
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11 Apr 1919 The International Labour Organization is founded.
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11 Apr 1921 Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
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11 Apr 1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
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11 Apr 1921 Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
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11 Apr 1921 KDKA broadcast the 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
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11 Apr 1921 Turkestan ASSR is established in Russian SFSR
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11 Apr 1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin
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11 Apr 1924 WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
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11 Apr 1924 Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
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11 Apr 1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
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11 Apr 1926 Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
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11 Apr 1927 Chilean General Carlos Ib
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11 Apr 1929 KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
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11 Apr 1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
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11 Apr 1933 Hermann G
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11 Apr 1936 Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "On Your Toes", premieres in NYC
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11 Apr 1936 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
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11 Apr 1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations
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11 Apr 1941 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
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11 Apr 1941 Germany blitzes Conventry, England
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11 Apr 1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazi's
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11 Apr 1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
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11 Apr 1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
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11 Apr 1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
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11 Apr 1945 Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
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11 Apr 1945 US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
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11 Apr 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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11 Apr 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany
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11 Apr 1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
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11 Apr 1945 US captures Tsugen Shima
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11 Apr 1945 US troops conquers M
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11 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
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11 Apr 1948 12th Golf Masters Championship Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279
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11 Apr 1950 Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
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11 Apr 1950 US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
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11 Apr 1951 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
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11 Apr 1951 Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
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11 Apr 1951 President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur
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11 Apr 1952 The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
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11 Apr 1953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
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11 Apr 1954 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
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11 Apr 1955 The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
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11 Apr 1955 Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for West Indies uninterrupted
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11 Apr 1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
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11 Apr 1956 French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
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11 Apr 1957 United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
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11 Apr 1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
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11 Apr 1957 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
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11 Apr 1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (San Francisco)
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11 Apr 1959 "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
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11 Apr 1959 Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day homerun
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11 Apr 1959 Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
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11 Apr 1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
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11 Apr 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel
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11 Apr 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
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11 Apr 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
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11 Apr 1961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman WWII crimes trial
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11 Apr 1961 15th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1
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11 Apr 1961 Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
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11 Apr 1962 New York Mets make a losing debut
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11 Apr 1963 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
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11 Apr 1963 John XXIII encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty"
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11 Apr 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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11 Apr 1963 Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
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11 Apr 1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
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11 Apr 1965 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
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11 Apr 1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
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11 Apr 1965 29th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271
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11 Apr 1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
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11 Apr 1966 30th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288; Jack Nicklaus is the 1st man to win consecutive Masters
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11 Apr 1967 "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 performances
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11 Apr 1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
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11 Apr 1967 Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead", premieres
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11 Apr 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
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11 Apr 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
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11 Apr 1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
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11 Apr 1968 West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
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11 Apr 1968 WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Apr 1969 South African President Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
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11 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 is launched.
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11 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
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11 Apr 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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11 Apr 1970 San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
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11 Apr 1971 "Johnny Johnson" opens / closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance
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11 Apr 1971 WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, Maryland (IND) begins broadcasting
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11 Apr 1971 35th Golf Masters Championship Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279
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11 Apr 1972 First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest-running British radio shows in history.
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11 Apr 1972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC
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11 Apr 1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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11 Apr 1974 WWII war criminal JP Philippa arrested
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11 Apr 1975 JP Parise 11 second OT goal-Islanders 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
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11 Apr 1975 Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewers)
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11 Apr 1976 The Apple I is created.
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11 Apr 1976 40th Golf Masters Championship Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271
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11 Apr 1977 London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
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11 Apr 1977 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
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11 Apr 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
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11 Apr 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
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11 Apr 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
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11 Apr 1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
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11 Apr 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
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11 Apr 1981 A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
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11 Apr 1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
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11 Apr 1981 Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
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11 Apr 1981 Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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11 Apr 1981 Race riot in London area of Brixton
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11 Apr 1982 Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
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11 Apr 1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 5-New York Islanders 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
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11 Apr 1982 46th Golf Masters Championship Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284
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11 Apr 1983 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi, " Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win
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11 Apr 1983 NASA launches RCA-F
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11 Apr 1983 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards Inchon! wins
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11 Apr 1983 47th Golf Masters Championship Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280
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11 Apr 1984 USSR party leader Chernenko elected President
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11 Apr 1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
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11 Apr 1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
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11 Apr 1984 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
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11 Apr 1984 General Secretary Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
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11 Apr 1985 Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 2-0 lead
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11 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 2-New York Islanders 1 (OT)-Patrick Division Semifinals- Capitals hold 2-0 lead
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11 Apr 1986 A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
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11 Apr 1986 Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
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11 Apr 1986 KXA-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KRPM
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11 Apr 1986 Dodge Morgan completes nonstop sail solo around the world in 150 days
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11 Apr 1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 million km
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11 Apr 1986 A Canadain 1921 50
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11 Apr 1987 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
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11 Apr 1987 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs Kansas City Royals
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11 Apr 1987 Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
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11 Apr 1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
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11 Apr 1989 Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
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11 Apr 1989 1st playoff goal scored by a goalee, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers
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11 Apr 1989 Philadelphia Flyers score short-handed into an empty net beating Capitals 8-5
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11 Apr 1990 Angels Mark Langston and Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
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11 Apr 1990 New York Rangers beat the New York Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
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11 Apr 1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
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11 Apr 1990 California Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle Mariners, 1-0
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11 Apr 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winners (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
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11 Apr 1991 "Miss Saigon, " opens at Broadway Theater, New York City
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11 Apr 1991 NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
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11 Apr 1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
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11 Apr 1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
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11 Apr 1991 "Miss Saigon", opens at Broadway Theater NYC
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11 Apr 1992 Boston Red Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 7-5, in 19 innings
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11 Apr 1992 BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
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11 Apr 1992 Cleveland Indians set team record for long game lose to Boston Red Sox (19 innings - 6
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11 Apr 1992 Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
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11 Apr 1992 Euro-Disney opens near Paris France
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11 Apr 1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
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11 Apr 1993 Four hundred fifty 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.
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11 Apr 1993 57th Golf Masters Championship Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277
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11 Apr 1993 Jeff Rouse swims world record 100 meter backstroke (51.43 seconds)
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11 Apr 1993 Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as President of Kalmukkie
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11 Apr 1996 "King & I, " premieres at Neil Simon Theater in NYC for 781 performances
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11 Apr 1996 Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season
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11 Apr 1999 63rd Golf Masters Championship
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11 Apr 2001 The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
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11 Apr 2002 Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.
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11 Apr 2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
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11 Apr 2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
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11 Apr 2007 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
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11 Apr 2011 An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
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11 Apr 2012 An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
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