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11 Apr 1079
Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesaw II of Poland
11 Apr 1471
Wars of the Roses King Edward IV of England siezes London from Henry VI
11 Apr 1551
English premier John Dudley appointed Duke of Northumberland
11 Apr 1567
Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
11 Apr 1677
Battle at Montcassel French troops beat Prince William III
11 Apr 1689
William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of England Scotland and Ireland
11 Apr 1713
Great Britain Spain the Netherlands Prussia Savoy Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain
11 Apr 1750
Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston England acknowledged as first international prize fight
11 Apr 1783
Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War
11 Apr 1801
Johann von Schillers Die Jungfrau von Orleans premieres in Leipzig
11 Apr 1830
Robert Schumann hears the violinist Paganini play in Frankfurt
11 Apr 1848
Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under King Ferdinand of Austria
11 Apr 1856
Battle of Rivas Costa Rica beats William Walkers invading Nicaraguans
11 Apr 1862
Confederates surrender at Fort Pulaski Georgia
11 Apr 1865
Battle of Mobile Alamaba evacuated by Confederates
11 Apr 1876
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes in New York City
11 Apr 1876
Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
11 Apr 1881
River ferry Princess Victoria sinks in Thames River Ontario 180 die
11 Apr 1881
Spelman College founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in basement of Friendship Baptist Church Atlanta
11 Apr 1890
Ellis Island New York designated as an immigration station
11 Apr 1891
8-year old Jewish tailors daughter disappears in Greece rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
11 Apr 1895
Anaheim completes its new electric light system
11 Apr 1896
Hungarian swimmer Alfrd Hajs beats Otto Herschmann of Austria by 0.6s to win the inaugural Olympic 100m freestyle final in 122.2 at the Athens Games also takes out the 1200m on the same day
11 Apr 1896
Irish tennis player John Boland representing Great Britain wins both the mens singles and doubles finals at the Athens Olympics Dionysios Kasdaglis of Greece loses both matches
11 Apr 1898
President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
11 Apr 1899
Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
11 Apr 1907
NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
11 Apr 1909
Establishment of Tel Aviv by Jewish settlers (named 1910)
11 Apr 1912
Cornerstone of Technion laid in Haifa Palestine
11 Apr 1912
The UK Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons Protestants in Ulster resist
11 Apr 1914
Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US
11 Apr 1919
The International Labour Organization is founded.
11 Apr 1921
KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
11 Apr 1924
1st mens college swimming championships begin
11 Apr 1924
WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
11 Apr 1925
Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
11 Apr 1926
Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
11 Apr 1927
Chilean general Carlos Ibez names himself president
11 Apr 1929
Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
11 Apr 1936
Rodgers & Harts musical On Your Toes premieres in NYC
11 Apr 1936
Stanley Cup Final Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto ON Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 for a 3-1 series win Red Wings first SC Championship
11 Apr 1941
Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
11 Apr 1941
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
11 Apr 1942
US Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal established
11 Apr 1943
Frank Piasecki Vertol founder flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
11 Apr 1945
Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald
11 Apr 1945
US troops conquers Mulheim Oberhausen Bochum Unna Essen
11 Apr 1948
12th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Claude Harmon shoots a record-tying 279 (9) to finish 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Cary Middlecoff
11 Apr 1953
Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health Education & Welfare
11 Apr 1953
US Department of Health Education and Welfare created
11 Apr 1955
Gary Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted
11 Apr 1956
French government decides to send 200000 reservists to Algeria
11 Apr 1956
Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
11 Apr 1957
Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
11 Apr 1958
Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco
11 Apr 1959
Jamaica closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
11 Apr 1959
Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR
11 Apr 1961
15th NBA Championship Bos Celtics beat St Louis Hawks 4 games to 1
11 Apr 1961
Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
11 Apr 1963
Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
11 Apr 1964
Anyone Can Whistle closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
11 Apr 1965
40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5000
11 Apr 1966
30th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jack Nicklaus becomes first back-to-back champion winning an 18-hole Monday playoff with Tommy Jacobs and Gay Brewer
11 Apr 1966
Emmett Ashford becomes 1st African American major league umpire
11 Apr 1967
Illya Darling opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 performances
11 Apr 1967
Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
11 Apr 1968
Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
11 Apr 1968
W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
11 Apr 1968
WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
11 Apr 1970
Apollo 13 launched to Moon unable to land returns in 6 days
11 Apr 1970
Beatles Let It Be single goes 1 & stays 1 for 2 weeks
11 Apr 1970
San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1 only day Reds arent in 1st place in
11 Apr 1971
Johnny Johnson openscloses at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance
11 Apr 1971
35th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Charles Coody wins his only major title by 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus
11 Apr 1971
WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore MD (IND) begins broadcasting
11 Apr 1975
J. P. Paris scores an 11 sec OT goal to see the NY Islanders eliminate the NY Rangers in their ever 1st playoff advance
11 Apr 1976
40th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Raymond Floyd wins his only Masters title 8 strokes ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw
11 Apr 1977
Luckenbach Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year )
11 Apr 1980
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
11 Apr 1982
46th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Craig Stadler wins his only major title by defeating Dan Pohl on the 1st hole of a sudden-death playoff
11 Apr 1983
47th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Seve Ballesteros of Spain wins his 2nd Masters and 3rd major title 4 strokes ahead of Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite Monday finish because of torrential rain
11 Apr 1983
In the first supergrass trial in Northern Ireland fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years
11 Apr 1984
Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
11 Apr 1986
Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in New York for 22000
11 Apr 1986
Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
11 Apr 1986
Halleys Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip 63 M km
11 Apr 1986
KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
11 Apr 1987
Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
11 Apr 1987
Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (23039)
11 Apr 1989
Flyers scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5
11 Apr 1990
Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt no-hit Seattle 1-0
11 Apr 1990
NY Lotto pays 35 million to two winner (s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
11 Apr 1990
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1 Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
11 Apr 1990
Customs officers in Middlesbrough United Kingdom say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
11 Apr 1991
NYCs Museum of Broadcasting becomes Museum of Radio & Television
11 Apr 1991
UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
11 Apr 1992
Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6 hr)
11 Apr 1992
Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district killing 3
11 Apr 1993
57th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his second green jacket by 4 strokes from Chip Beck
11 Apr 1993
Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
11 Apr 1993
Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
11 Apr 1993
450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville Ohio and continue for ten days citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
11 Apr 1996
King & I premieres at Neil Simon Theater in NYC for 781 perform
11 Apr 1996
Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season
11 Apr 1999
63rd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jos Mara Olazbal of Spain wins his second Masters title 2 strokes ahead of Davis Love III and 3 from of Greg Norman
11 Apr 1999
52nd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) Shakespeare in Love Best Film Peter Weir Best Director
11 Apr 1999
Neil Jenkins converts a Scott Gibbs try to give Wales a famous 32-31 win over England at Wembley Stadium allows Scotland to win final Five Nations Rugby Championship reverts to 6 teams in 2000
11 Apr 2000
AT&T Park in San Francisco Minute Maid Park in Houston and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
11 Apr 2000
South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is sacked after admitting dishonesty following match-fixing allegations in India
11 Apr 2001
Detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan Peoples Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter are released
11 Apr 2002
The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia
11 Apr 2004
68th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Phil Mickelson claims his first major title with a birdie on the final hole to win by 1 stroke over Ernie Els of South Africa
11 Apr 2005
39th CMT Music Awards Keith Urban Gretchen Wilson & Kenny Chesney wins
11 Apr 2007
Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wounds a further 222
11 Apr 2010
74th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Phil Mickelson wins his 3rd green jacket by 3 strokes from Englands Lee Westwood
11 Apr 2010
The night of Sora Aoi Japanese porn actress Sora Aoi joins twitter prompting many Chinese fans to try and circumnavigate Chinese censorship
11 Apr 2011
Minsk Metro bombing in Belarus kills at least 15 and injures over 200
11 Apr 2012
8.6 magnitude earthquake and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
11 Apr 2012
2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
11 Apr 2012
South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
11 Apr 2012
Prime Minister of Greece Lucas Papademos resigns and calls an election for May 6
11 Apr 2013
14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacn Mexico
11 Apr 2013
57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate Syria
11 Apr 2013
Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville Papua New Guinea
11 Apr 2013
Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China
11 Apr 1689
King William III and Queen Mary II crowned as joint rulers of England Scotland and Ireland
11 Apr 1907
New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame backstop Roger Bresnahan becomes first catcher to wear shin guards
11 Apr 1963
Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn beats NY Mets 6-1 for his 328th win most by a left-hander in MLB history
11 Apr 1966
Emmett Ashford becomes first African American major league baseball umpire in Washington Senators game against the Cleveland Indians at D.C. Stadium
11 Apr 1986
A 1921 Canadian 50 cent coin is auctioned in New York for 22000
11 Apr 1612
Last public burning at the stake in England - Edward Wrightman for heresy in Lichfield
11 Apr 1853
Steamboat ferry Jenny Lind boiler explosion kills at least 31 passengers in San Francisco Bay California
11 Apr 1902
Second Boer War British forces defeat Boer commandos in Battle of Rooiwal South Africa
11 Apr 1936
First Butlins holiday camp opens in the UK at Ingoldmells near Skegness
11 Apr 1959
Yip Harburg Fred Saidy and Harold Arlens musical Jamaica starring Lena Horne closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
11 Apr 1977
Luckenbach Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year )
11 Apr 1990
MLB California Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt no-hit Seattle 1-0
11 Apr 1990
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1 Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary playoffs
11 Apr 1991
Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands at Edwards Air Force Base California
11 Apr 1992
MLB Cleveland Indians set team record for long game loss to Boston Red Sox (19 innings - 6 hr)
11 Apr 1996
Revival of Rodgers & Hammersteins musical The King & I starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Donna Murphy premieres at Neil Simon Theater NYC runs for 781 performances
11 Apr 1241
Battle of Mohi Mongols led by Batu and Subedei defeat Hungarian King Bla IV in the major battle in during Mongolian invasion of Hungary with 30000 Hungarians slain
11 Apr 1783
Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War [1]
11 Apr 1958
Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco California
11 Apr 1959
Yip Harburg Fred Saidy and Harold Arlens musical Jamaica starring Lena Horne closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
11 Apr 1965
29th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jack Nicklaus wins the 2nd of his 6 Masters titles with a tournament record 271 (17) beats Gary Player and Arnold Palmer by a record 9 strokes
11 Apr 1972
Benjamin Hooks named to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 1st African-American to serve
11 Apr 2000
MLB Pacific Bell Park (now Oracle Park) in San Francisco California and Comerica Park in Detroit Michigan open
11 Apr 1079
Bishop Stanislaus of Krakw is executed by order of Bolesaw II of Poland
11 Apr 1783
Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War after the Continental Congress proclaims the Cessation of Arms against and His Britannic Majesty [1]
11 Apr 1921
KDKA in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania broadcasts 1st radio sporting event a boxing match between lightweights Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee
11 Apr 1968
Political activist Rudi Dutschke (28) seriously wounded by an East German neo-Nazis assassination attempt in West Berlin West Germany
11 Apr 2009
Michael van Gerwen wins his first tournament victory in the PDC by beating Vincent van der Voort in the final of the Players Championship in Taunton
11 Apr 2016
UN-backed ceasefire comes into effect in Yemen conflict between Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and government forces
11 Apr 2016
Updated Tree of Life published in Nature Microbiology by scientists from Berkeley University in California
11 Apr 2019
EU leaders agree to a six-month extension to Brexit after UK parliament fails to reach any consensus
11 Apr 2019
First day of voting in Indian general elections the worlds largest democracy with 900 million eligible voters in the worlds largest-ever election (till 23rd May)
11 Apr 2019
Israels Beresheet spacecraft the first privately-funded mission to the moon crashes on the moon
11 Apr 2020
Brazil is the 1st country in the southern hemisphere to report more than 1000 deaths from COVID-19 with 1056 deaths and 19638 cases
11 Apr 2021
20-year-old Daunte Wright shot and killed at a traffic stop by police officer in Brooklyn Center Minnesota who says they mistook their gun for a taser
11 Apr 2021
Peruvian general election Free Peru party wins most seats but not a majority Pedro Castillo wins presidency (not declared till 19 July)
11 Apr 2021
Tropical cyclone Seroja makes landfall in Western Australia near the town of Kalbarri with winds up to 170kmh (105mph)
11 Apr 2022
Mayor of Ukrainian city Mariupol says over 10000 civilians have died in the Russian siege with the likely death toll twice this as bodies are carpeted through the streets [1]
11 Apr 2023
Largest cosmic explosion ever recorded (AT2021lwx)- fireball 100 x size of the solar system with a brightness 2trillion x the suns thought to be large gas cloud entering a supermassive black hole eight million lights years away [1]
11 Apr 2023
Myanmar military kill at least 133 civilians including children in an airstrike on Kanbalu township in an area not under control of the military junta [1]
11 Apr 2023
NHL Boston Bruins break record for most team points in a season at 133 in a 5-2 victory over visiting Washington Capitols Montreal Canadiens held record of 132 since 1977
11 Apr 1612
Last public burning at the stake in England - Edward Wightman for heresy in Lichfield
11 Apr 1783
Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War after the Continental Congress proclaims the Cessation of Arms against His Britannic Majesty [1]
11 Apr 1943
American helicopter designer Frank Piasecki Vertol founder flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft [1]
11 Apr 1970
Beatles Let It Be single goes 1 and stays 1 for 2 weeks
11 Apr 2023
Russian volcano Shiveluch erupts spewing ash 20 kilometers into the air in the countrys eastern Kamchatka region [1]
11 Apr 2024
Bogot begins water rationing for the first time as water reservoirs run very low due to drought and El Nio [1]
11 Apr 2024
Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death for embezzlement bribery and banking violations worth 304 trillion dong (12.46 billion) the countrys largest-ever fraud case [1]
11 Apr 1654
Anglo-Swedish alliance commercial trade agreement between England and Sweden is signed
11 Apr 1750
Jack Slack retains the Champion of England boxing title after defeating Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston England acknowledged as the first international prizefight
11 Apr 1888
The Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam is inaugurated
11 Apr 1943
American helicopter designer Frank Piasecki founder of Vertol flies his first single-rotor craft [1]
11 Apr 1984
Challenger astronauts complete first in-space satellite repair
11 Apr 1990
NY Lotto pays 35 million to two winners (numbers are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
11 Apr 2010
The night of Sora Aoi Japanese actress and adult video star Sora Aoi joins twitter prompting many Chinese fans to try and circumnavigate Chinese censorship
11 Apr 2022
Mayor of Ukrainian city Mariupol says over 10000 civilians have died in the Russian siege with the likely death toll twice this as bodies are carpeted through the streets [1]
11 Apr 2023
Largest cosmic explosion ever recorded (AT2021lwx) fireball 100 times the size of the solar system with a brightness 2 trillion times the suns thought to be a large gas cloud entering a supermassive black hole eight million light-years away [1]
11 Apr 2025
China raises US tariffs to 125% in retaliation against Trump excluding China from the 90-day tariff pause and increasing Chinas tariffs to 145% [1]