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- 0491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
- 1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesaw II of Poland.
- 1241 Batu Khan defeats Bla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
- 1512 War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix was victorious in the Battle of Ravenna.
- 1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain
- 1713 War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
- 1768 Fire destroys one-third of the town of Montreal
- 1775 Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.
- 1783 Congress declares end of war with Great Britain
- 1814 The first abdication of Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
- 1828 Foundation of Bahia Blanca
- 1849 The safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt
- 1855 Visitor posting - 1st post boxes erected in London - painted green - United Kingdom
- 1856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
- 1856 In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
- 1862 Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
- 1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
- 1876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized
- 1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- 1878 J Coggia discovers asteroid #187 Lamberta
- 1881 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
- 1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
- 1895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
- 1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
- 1899 Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
- 1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
- 1900 Navy accepted its first submarine, USS Holland
- 1905 Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity).
- 1917 First Battle of Bullecourt, France
- 1919 International Labour Organization founded.
- 1921 First sports broadcast on the radio.
- 1921 Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
- 1921 Iowa imposed first state cigarette tax
- 1921 The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
- 1921 Turkestan ASSR established in Russian SFSR
- 1935 Visitor posting - Joseph Kaikaris born - USA
- 1941 Germany blitzes Conventry, England
- 1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
- 1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his first (single-rotor) craft
- 1945 U.S. troops liberate approximately 20,000 prisoners from Buchenwald.
- 1945 World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in modern major-league baseball
- 1948 Visitor posting - Christine Winifred Pagel was born in Highland Park, Michigan! - USA
- 1948 Visitor posting - James Freddy Clark was born in Sulphur Oklahoma
- 1951 Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
- 1951 Pres Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
- 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 traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey.
- 1952 The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
- 1955 The Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
- 1957 Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- 1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes first jet to take-off and land vertically
- 1959 Karen Ann Hunter, American Tutor, is born
- 1960 Jeremy Clarkson, famous motoring journalist and tv presenter was born.
- 1960 The first weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
- 1961 Bob Dylan's first appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
- 1961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman world war II crimes trial
- 1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 1963 John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty
- 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do It?
- 1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000
- 1965 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
- 1967 F Borngen discovers asteroid #3539 Weimar
- 1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress and reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
- 1967 In Ottawa Ontario Bower Edward Featherstone convicted under the Official Secrets Act of acquiring confidential naval charts
- 1968 German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin.
- 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
- 1968 Pres Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
- 1970 Apollo 13 is launched.
- 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1970 Launch of Apollo 13, commanded by CAPT James A. Lovell, Jr., USN. Former naval aviator Fred W. Haise, Jr. was the Lunar Module Pilot. While 200,000 miles from Earth there was an explosion on board which forced Apollo 13 to circle the moon without landing. Mission duration was 5 days, 22 hours, and 54 minutes. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2).
- 1972 200,000 Hydro-Quebec workers, teachers, and hospital staff go on 2-week strike; largest in history
- 1978 E F Helin and G Grueff discovers asteroid #3101 Goldberger
- 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- 1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
- 1980 Visitor posting - Christopher Neal Sloan and Jonathon Thomas Sloan born to Timothy Neal and Anita Gail Sloan Burlington NC - USA
- 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
- 1981 A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- 1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
- 1981 Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
- 1984 Challenger astronauts complete first in space satellite repair
- 1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
- 1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
- 1986 In New York City a Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22,000 at auction.
- 1987 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- 1989 Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Ron Hextall scores short-handed into an empty net
- 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.
- 1990 Harold Ballard dies at age 86; President of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1961
- 1991 Ottawa to give $15 million compensation to families of victims of 1985 Air India Flight 182 disaster
- 1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
- 1993 Visitor posting - Jason Humphreys AKA JABO was born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - April 11 1994 John Bennett Bradlley is born in Satu Mare, Romania
- 1994 Visitor posting - Devin Ramirez the hottest person alive was born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Jonathan Gardner, drummer for "hurry up and wait" was born. - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Synquithia Parker's Birthday - USA
- 1996 Panathinaikos becomes the first Greek team to win the European Championships (now Euroleague) in Paris, beating FC Barcelona by 67-66.
- 1996 Visitor posting - april 11 1996 joshua el negro was born
- 1997 In Southern Xinjiang, China a 6.2 earthquake occurred, at least 9 people killed, 89 injured, 100,000 homeless, thousands of buildings destroyed and 11,000 livestock killed in Jiashi County
- 1998 Visitor posting - Tamara Marie Stevens is born - USA
- 2000 AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
- 2001 Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record in which Archie Thompson scored 13 goals
- 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 An attempted coup d'tat in Venezuela against President Hugo Chvez began.
- 2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2003 U.S. troops take the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without a fight.
- 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 2007 Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others. 2007 Algiers bombings.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Shannon & Bruce are married - USA
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