April 11 in History

Historical Events on April 11

491

Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079

Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
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 win the Battle of Ravenna.
1544

French forces defeat a Spanish army at Ceresole.
1689

William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
1713

War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1727

Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1809

Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
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.
1856

Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868

Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1876

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881

Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1908

SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.
1909

The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1921

Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1945

World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951

Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
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.
1955

The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961

The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963

Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics.
1965

The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1970

Apollo 13 is launched.
1976

The Apple I is created.
1977

London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are 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.
1986

FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
1987

The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1990

Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
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.
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.
2002

The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002

Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
2006

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
2007

Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2011

An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2012

A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.

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