TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 11
1512 The forces of the Holy League are heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna.
1689 William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1783 After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on 13 March, Congress proclaims a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1814 Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
1898 American President William McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war with Spain.
1921 Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.
1921 The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
1945 United States forces liberated a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany today. Over Twenty thousand inmates were free today after its capture. Since 1933 , approximately 200,000 persons doomed to sadistic death or a living hell passed through the gates of the electrically-charged barbed-wire enclosure as infamous as the camps at Dachau and Oranienburg.
1951 President Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur as head of United Nations forces in Korea.
1957 The British government allows the island colony of Singapore to govern itself under a new constitution agreed in London. Great Britain will continue to control external affairs and defense.
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 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace of workers by supervisors.
1981 President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from hospital after recovery from an assassination attempt.
1984 China invaded Vietnam.
1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough seize the barrel ( 130 feet long ) of a “Supergun” on a ship bound for Iraq. A gun barrel of this length would give a “Supergun” the range of approximately 600 miles.
1991 The United Nations Security Council issues formal ceasefire with Iraq.
1996 Israel has carried out a series of air strikes on Hezbollah targets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The assaults on Hezbollah targets in “Operation Grapes of Wrath” are in retaliation for rocket attacks two days ago on northern Israeli settlements.
2001 China agrees to free crew members of an American spy plane that had collided with a Chinese fighter plane, killing its pilot.
2006 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has enriched uranium
The Iranian nuclear program has become a source of great controversy. Several countries, some of them possessing nuclear weapons themselves, accuse Tehran of developing an Iranian atom bomb.
2007 The Senate has lessened the restrictions that were placed on the use of federal funds for stem-cell research, and defied the veto that President Bush has threatened to put on them.
2015 Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
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