TODAY HISTORY LESSON: APRIL 11
1512 The forces of the Holy League are heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenn
1689 William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
1783 After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean
1865 Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
1890 Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1898 American President William McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war with Spain.
1899 Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1921 Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.
1921 KDKA broadcast the 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1945 Allies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
1948 The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was announced in a general press release.
1951 President Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur as head of United Nations forces in Korea.
1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1961 Israel begins the trial of Adolf Eichman, accused of war crimes during WWII.
1968 President Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act.
1974 The Judiciary committee subpoenas President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya
1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
1981 President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from hospital after recovery from an assassination attempt.
1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1996 Forty-three African nations sign the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.
2001 China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.
2006 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has enriched uranium
2015 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
2019 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
