On this day in History - Apr 11

• 0146 - Septimius Severus, was born (d. 0211). Roman emperor.
• 0896 - Início do pontificado do Papa Bonifácio VI.
• 1199 - Morte do rei inglês Ricardo I Coração de Leão.
• 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, dies.
• 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Bela IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
• 1357 - King John I of Portugal was born (d. 1433) .
• 1373 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March was born.
• 1492 - Margaret of Navarre, was born (d. 1549). Queen of Navarre and writer.
• 1512 - Battle of Ravenna: The forces of the Holy League were heavily defeated by the French.
• 1568 - Marin Getaldić was born (d. 1626). Croat physicist and astronomer.
• 1586 - Pietro Della Valle, composer, was born.
• 1689 - William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
• 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht .
• 1723 - Franz Anton Bustelli, was born (d. 1763). Porcelain moulder.
• 1764 - O tratado entre a Rússia e a Prússia garante as constituições vigentes da Polónia e da Suécia e assegura tanto o controlo da eleição do monarca polaco como a acção conjunta contra os nacionalistas.
• 1772 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author, poet (El Duque de Viseo), was born.
• 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany .
• 1803 - French Foreign Minister Charles Talleyrand offers to sell all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States .
• 1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, was born (d. 1895). Soldier and orientalist.
• 1814 - Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
• 1819 - Charles Hallé, was born (d. 1895). Pianist and conductor.
• 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, was born (d. 1864). Politician.
• 1827 - The Greek national assembly at Troezene elected Capo d'Istria president of the republic.
• 1843 - Protocolo alemão de reconhecimento da soberania e independência da Confederação Argentina.
• 1844 - Alexandros Mavrokordatos assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Grécia.
• 1856- Juan Santamaría, dies. National hero of the Republic of Costa Rica .
• 1856 - Battle of Rivas in the war between the Central American coalition and freebooter William Walker.
• 1865 - Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro do Peru.
• 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan .
• 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, was born (d. 1943). Norwegian sculptor.
• 1870 - Morte de Justo José de Urquiza. Político e militar argentino.
• 1873 - Edward Canby, US Army General dies (b. 1817), assassinated at a peace conference during the Modoc War.
• 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
• 1881 - River ferry "Princess Victoria" sank in Thames River, Ontario, and 180 died.
• 1882 - Nace en Mendoza el pintor impresionista Fernando Fader.
• 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, was born (d. 1951). Japanese author.
• 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
• 1889 - Nick LaRocca, was born (d. 1961). Jazz musician, cornetist, composer.
• 1893 - Dean Acheson, was born (d. 1971). Former United States Secretary of State .
• 1896 - Wieland Herzfelde, was born (d.1989). Publisher and author.
• 1899 - The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect. Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States .
• 1900 - Morte de Bezerra de Menezes (Dr. Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes Cavalcanti), eminente e venerável médico, político e líder espírita, cognominado 'médico dos pobres', no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
• 1901 - Adriano Olivetti, was born. Italian engineer, manufacturer (typewriter).
• 1906 - Dale Messick, was born. Cartoonist.
• 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, dies (b. 1839). American editor and publisher.
• 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, dies (b. 1847). Co-founder with Phineas Taylor Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
• 1908 - Leo Rosten, was born (d. 1997). Humorist, author.
• 1909 - Sebastião Custódio de Sousa Teles assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1910 - Nascimento de Antonio Sebastião Ribeiro Spínola. Militar e político português.
• 1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, was born (d. 1980). Polish-American sprinter.
• 1912 - Morte do estadista francês Henri Brisson .
• 1913 - Oleg Cassini, was born. Fashion designer .
• 1916 - Nascimento em Buenos Aires, Argentina de Ginastera (Alberto Evaristo Ginastera). Compositor erudito moderno (Panambi).
• 1916- Richard Harding Davis, dies (b. 1864). Author.
• 1919 - Foi formada a Organização Internacional do Trabalho.
• 1920 - Marlen Haushofer, was born (d. 1990). Author.
• 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio .
• 1921- The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
• 1921 - Empress Augusta Vitoria [Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodore Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg ] dies in Doorn, Utrech, Netherland (b. 22 Oct 1858 in Dolzig, Germany).
• 1926 - Luther Burbank, dies (b. 1849). Botanist.
• 1928 - Ethel Kennedy, was born. Widow of Robert F. Kennedy .
• 1930 - Anton LaVey, was born (d. 1997). Founder of the Church of Satan .
• 1930 - Kazuo Fukushima was born. Japanese composer.
• 1932 - Joel Grey, was born. Singer, actor .
• 1933 - É promulgada e entra em vigor em Portugal a Constituição Política, terminando o período conhecido por Ditatura Militar.
• 1933 - Hermann Goering became premier of Prussia.
• 1938 - Kurt Moll, was born. German bass.
• 1941 - Ellen Goodman, was born. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
• 1943 - Se inaugura el Estadio José Amalfitani, propiedad del Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, en partido en que el local y River Plate igualan a 2 goles.
• 1944 - John Milius, was born. Director, writer .
• 1944 - A los 36 años, fallece Alejandro Villanueva Martinez, apodado el Maestro. Gran figura del futbol peruano. El estadio de Alianza de Lima lleva su nombre.
• 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. Some 250,000 prisoners passed through the camp and 50,000 are known to have died there.
• 1947 - Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in a modern-day Major League Baseball game.
• 1949 - Bernd Eichinger, was born. Film producer.
• 1950 - Início do reinado do príncipe Rainier (Principado de Mónaco).
• 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, was born (d. 1997). Houston, Texas socialite.
• 1951- Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea .
• 1953 - Andrew Wiles, was born. Mathematician .
• 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, was born. Prim minister of Belgium .
• 1955 - Kevin Brady, was born. American politician.
• 1956 - French government sent 200,000 reservists to Algeria.
• 1957 - Noruega assina a Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre a Escravatura (1926).
• 1958 - Gana passa a ser membro da UNESCO.
• 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, was born. Motor Journalist and TV Presenter of Top Gear .
• 1961 - Tentativa de golpe militar em Portugal, liderado pelo general Botelho Moniz, ministro da Defesa, imediatamente sufocado, que tenta derrubar Salazar e nomear Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de presidente do conselho. Salazar assume a pasta da Defesa.
• 1961 - Doug Hopkins, was born. Lyricist and musician.
• 1961 - Nasce Roberto Cabañas, futebolista paraguaio.
• 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing début in New York City.
• 1961 - Em Jerusalém, iniciou-se o julgamento do nazi Adolf Eichman.
• 1963 - John XXIII put forth his encyclical “On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty.”.
• 1965 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people.
• 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, was born in Rocdake, Lancashire, England. Singer and songwriter (All Around the World, You Can’t Deny It, This is the Right Time).
• 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, was born. Russian science fiction author .
• 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
• 1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin.
• 1969 - Roger Moore / Luisa Mattioli wed.
• 1969 - Cerys Matthews, was born.Singer.
• 1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.
• 1970 - John O'Hara, dies (b. 1905). Author.
• 1971 - Oliver Riedel, was born. Bassist for Rammstein.
• 1972 - Jason Varitek, was born. Baseball player.
• 1973 - Jennifer Esposito was born in New York, USA. Actress.
• 1974 - Trot Nixon, was born. Baseball player.
• 1974 - Olivia Bonamy was born. French actress.
• 1977 - Jacques Prévert dies (b. 04 Feb 1900). French poet, (La puil et le beau), scenarist and songwriter.
• 1978 - Aretha Franklin / Glynn Turman wed.
• 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• 1981 - Brixton riot .
• 1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio was born.Brazilien model.
• 1981 - Cary Grant / Barbara Harris wed.
• 1983 - In the 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! won.
• 1983 - In the 55th Academy Awards "Gandhi," (Best Picture) Ben Kingsley (Best actor) and Meryl Streep ( the Best Actress for "Sophie’s Choice") won the big prizes; while Jessica Lange received her Best Supporting Actress award for "Tootsie" and Louis Gossett, Jr. picked up his Best Supporting Actor award for "An Officer and a Gentleman".
• 1983 - Muere la actriz mexicana Dolores Del Río.
• 1984 - Nascimento de Junior (Durval De Lima Junior), cantor e ator brasileiro, da dupla Sandy & Júnior, em Campinas-SP.
• 1984 - Gen. Sec. Konstantin U. Chernenko was named president of Soviet Union.
• 1985 - Enver Hoxha, dies (b. 1908). Albanian statesman.
• 1987 - Erskine Caldwell, dies (b. 1903). Author.
• 1987 - Primo Levi, dies in Italy (b. 1919). Chemist, Auschwitz survivor, composer, librettist, author.
• 1987 - Joss Stone, was born. Singer.
• 1988 - "The Last Emperor" won best picture at the 60th annual Academy Awards ceremony; Cher won best actress for "Moonstruck," Michael Douglas best actor for "Wall Street." .
• 1991 - Muere Syria Poletti. Novelista, cuentista y autora de libros infantiles.
• 1992 - Estado de emergencia nacional na Costa Rica em virtude da propagação de grandes incendios florestais.
• 1996 - Jessica Dubroff (7) was killed with her father and flight instructor when their Cessna Cardinal 177B crashed during bad weather in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was attempting to become the youngest person to fly across the US.
• 1996 - Forty-three African nations signed the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.
• 1997 - In Angola a national reconciliation governing body was formed that united the MPLA under president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and UNITA under Jonas Savimbi.
• 1999 - Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters by two shots over Davis Love III.
• 1999 - In Los Angeles British architect Sir Norman Foster was named the winner of the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
• 1999 - D. António Vitalino Fernandes Dantas toma posse da Diocese de Beja - Portugal.
• 1999 - Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president of Niger. President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara had been assassinated on April 9.
• 2000 - In Peru the vote count reached 49.79% for Pres. Fujimori and tensions mounted under suspected irregularities.
• 2000 - Jordânia torna-se membro da Organização Mundial do Comércio
• 2001 - Harry Secombe, dies (b. 1921). Actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show.
• 2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in
  Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an F-8 fighter is released.
• 2001 - In South Africa 43 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer game in Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. Over 150 were injured.
• 2002 - Armando Cortez , morre em Lisboa (n. 23 Jun 1928). Grande actor português de teatro, revista, cinema.
• 2002 - In the Philippines the ferry MV Carmela with 240 passengers caught fire and at least 15 people were killed.
• 2002 - In Tunisia a gas tanker truck crashed into the wall of a El Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba and killed 14 Germans, 6 Tunisians and a Frenchman. The government at first called it an accident. Later evidence indicated that it was an act of terrorism. Nizar Nawar (24), a Tunisian citizen who had studied in Canada, was the driver. Al Qaeda later claimed responsibility.
• 2003 - The Venezuela government of Hugo Chavez and his opponents agreed to a plan for a referendum on his presidency, and the chief of state pledged to leave office if he loses.
• 2003 - Guerra do Iraque - Forças da coligação assumem o controle das cidades iraquianas de Kirkuk e Mosul, com a rendiçao da 5ª Unidade do Exército do Iraque (em Mosul) .O governo norte-americano declara o fim do regime iraquiano.
• 2003 - Registrados 61 novos casos de Síndrome Respiratória Aguda Severa (SRAS) em Hong Kong.