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April 11
1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in March 1815, until his downfall in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.)
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)
1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect.
1913 - Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson, during a meeting of President Woodrow Wilson’s Cabinet, proposed gradually segregating whites and Blacks who worked for the Railway Mail Service, a policy that went into effect and spread to other agencies.
1921 - Iowa imposed the nation's first cigarette tax.
1945 - Allied forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
1961 - Former SS officer Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust. (Eichmann was convicted and executed.)
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law, which included the Fair Housing Act.
1970 - Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon. (The mission was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded April 13. The crew splashed down safely four days after the explosion.)
1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is overthrown.
1980 - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after having been shot in an assassination attempt.
2012 - George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. (He was acquitted at trial.)
2018 - Pope Francis admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in Chile’s sex abuse scandal; during a January visit to Chile, Francis had strongly defended Bishop Juan Barros despite accusations by victims that Barros had witnessed and ignored their abuse.
2020 - The number of U.S. deaths from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy’s for the highest in the world, topping 20,000.
2022 - Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, died at age 107.
Birthdays
24 - Milly Alcock (actress)
28 - Summer Walker (singer)
30 - Shaughna Phillips (reality star)
31 - Marcus Johns (actor)
32 - Kaitlyn Jenkins (actress)
37 - Joss Stone (singer)
40 - Kelli Garner (actress)
43 - Alessandra Ambrosio (model)
50 - Tricia Helfer (actress)
55 - Johnny Messner (actor)
55 - Dustin Rhodes (professional wrestler)
58 - Lisa Stansfield (singer)
74 - Bill Irwin (actor)
92 - Joel Grey (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 11
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.
1936 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - The Boston Celtics defeat the St. Louis Hawks in five games to win the NBA championship.
1965 - Jack Nicklaus wins his second Masters.
1966 - Jack Nicklaus wins his third Masters and becomes the first ever back-to-back winner.
1996 - The Detroit Red Wings becomes just the second team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season.
2004 - Phil Mickelson wins the Masters for his first major.
2010 - Phil Mickelson wins his third Masters.
2023 - The 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.
1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in March 1815, until his downfall in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.)
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)
1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect.
1913 - Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson, during a meeting of President Woodrow Wilson’s Cabinet, proposed gradually segregating whites and Blacks who worked for the Railway Mail Service, a policy that went into effect and spread to other agencies.
1921 - Iowa imposed the nation's first cigarette tax.
1945 - Allied forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
1961 - Former SS officer Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust. (Eichmann was convicted and executed.)
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law, which included the Fair Housing Act.
1970 - Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon. (The mission was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded April 13. The crew splashed down safely four days after the explosion.)
1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is overthrown.
1980 - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after having been shot in an assassination attempt.
2012 - George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. (He was acquitted at trial.)
2018 - Pope Francis admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in Chile’s sex abuse scandal; during a January visit to Chile, Francis had strongly defended Bishop Juan Barros despite accusations by victims that Barros had witnessed and ignored their abuse.
2020 - The number of U.S. deaths from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy’s for the highest in the world, topping 20,000.
2022 - Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, died at age 107.
Birthdays
24 - Milly Alcock (actress)
28 - Summer Walker (singer)
30 - Shaughna Phillips (reality star)
31 - Marcus Johns (actor)
32 - Kaitlyn Jenkins (actress)
37 - Joss Stone (singer)
40 - Kelli Garner (actress)
43 - Alessandra Ambrosio (model)
50 - Tricia Helfer (actress)
55 - Johnny Messner (actor)
55 - Dustin Rhodes (professional wrestler)
58 - Lisa Stansfield (singer)
74 - Bill Irwin (actor)
92 - Joel Grey (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 11
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.
1936 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - The Boston Celtics defeat the St. Louis Hawks in five games to win the NBA championship.
1965 - Jack Nicklaus wins his second Masters.
1966 - Jack Nicklaus wins his third Masters and becomes the first ever back-to-back winner.
1996 - The Detroit Red Wings becomes just the second team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season.
2004 - Phil Mickelson wins the Masters for his first major.
2010 - Phil Mickelson wins his third Masters.
2023 - The 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.