April 11th
491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakσw is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1241 Batu Khan defeats Bιla 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 Italian War of 154246: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.
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 An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier.
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 Santamarνa burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 Former shōgun 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 Blόcher, 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.
1968 Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
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 Chαvez. 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.
2018 An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
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