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Today April 11th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Boleslaw II of Poland.
1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
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.
1828 – Foundation of Bahia Blanca.
1856 – In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker s filibusters are holed up.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
1868 – The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1899 – Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
1905 – Albert Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity).
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 – First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.
1921 – The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
1921 – Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General 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.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 – Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
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 – German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
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.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
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.
1993 – 450 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.
2000 – AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
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 J-8 fighter is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 – An attempted coup d état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
Births
146 – Septimius Severus (d. 211)
1357 – John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
1374 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 – Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1592 – John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
1721 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 – Christopher Smart, English poet (d. 1771)
1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)
1770 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
1794 – Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1810 – Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
1819 – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
1827 – Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
1852 – Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1866 – Bernard O Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
1867 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1873 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
1876 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1889 – Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
1890 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 – Dean Acheson, American statesman (d. 1971)
1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
1899 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d. 1975)
1900 – Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1905 – József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1907 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
1908 – Jane Bolin, first African-American woman judge (d. 2007)
1908 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (d. 1997)
1908 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (d. 1992)
1908 – Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
1910 – António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish runner (d. 1980)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1914 – Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
1914 – Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
1916 – Howard W. Koch, American film director (d. 2001)
1917 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 – David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1918 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (d. 2003)
1921 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1923 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (d. 1980)
1925 – Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
1926 – Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer
1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
1930 – Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor
1931 – Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1932 – Joel Grey, American singer and actor
1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist
1934 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
1935 – Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
1935 – Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
1938 – Michael Deaver, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)
1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass
1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
1941 – Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
1941 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress
1943 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler
1944 – John Milius, American director and writer
1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor
1947 – Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
1949 – Carl Franklin, American actor
1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 – Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American author
1952 – Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter
1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
1955 – Michael Callen, American musician (d. 1993)
1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
1958 – Brynn Hartman, American murderer (d. 1998)
1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
1961 – Doug Hopkins, American musician
1962 – Vincent Gallo, American actor
1963 – Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1963 – Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
1964 – Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter
1964 – Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
1966 – Dustin Patrick Runnels, American professional wrestler
1966 – Steve Scarsone, American baseball player
1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer
1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
1969 – Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
1969 – Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
1970 – Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Delroy Pearson, former singer, Five Star
1970 – Johnny Messner, American actor
1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
1971 – Vicellous Reon Shannon, American actor
1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player
1972 – Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
1973 – Jennifer Esposito, American television actor
1974 – Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
1974 – Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter
1974 – Anton Glanzelius, Danish actor
1974 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actor
1974 – Zöe Lucker, British television actor
1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player
1975 – Walid Soliman, Tunisian author
1978 – Brett Claywell, American actor
1978 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1978 – Tom Thacker, Canadian musician
1979 – Malcolm Christie, English footballer
1979 – Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Canadian beauty pageant winner
1979 – Chris Gaylor, American drummer
1979 – Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 – Josh Server, American actor
1979 – Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician
1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
1980 – Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Dijoubti model
1981 – Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
1983 – Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
1984 – Kelli Garner, American actress
1985 – Will Minson, Australian rules footballer
1986 – Roman Heart, American porn actor
1987 – Joss Stone, English singer
1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
2000 – Morgan Lily, actress
2002 – Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress
Deaths
1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 968)
1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
1554 – Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
1612 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 – Marin Getaldic, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1712 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 – John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1798 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1856 – Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 – Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1890 – Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (b. 1862)
1894 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1906 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 – Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 – Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
1926 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1947 – Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1953 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1967 – Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1970 – Cathy O Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
1970 – John O Hara, American author (b. 1905)
1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1983 – Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)
1985 – Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 – Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
1987 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
1990 – Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1990 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1991 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1915)
1992 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1992 – Eve Merriam, American playwright, director, and poet (b. 1916)
1996 – Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
2000 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 – Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2001 – Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 – Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 – André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2006 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
2007 – Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 – Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 – Merlin German, United States Marine
Holidays and observances
Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Battle of Rivas (State holiday in Costa Rica).
The Feast Day of Saint Antipas of Pergamum in the Greek Orthodox Church.
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