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 - Cockeye imposed the nation's first state cigarette tax.
1945 - Allies liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
1951 - President Harry S. Truman removed Gen. Douglas MacArthur from command.
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.
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 - Uganda dictator Idi Amin was 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 he was shot in an assassination attempt.
1996 - Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, was killed along with her father and flight instructor when their plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
2007 - Science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at age 84.
2018 - California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump’s call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border but said the troops would have nothing to do with immigration enforcement.
2018 - A military transport plane crashed just after takeoff in Algeria, killing 257 people in the worst aviation disaster in the history of the North African country.
Birthdays
23 - Milly Alcock (actress)
27 - Summer Walker (singer)
30 - Marcus Johns (actor)
31 - Kaitlyn Jenkins (actress)
36 - Joss Stone (singer)
36 - Michelle Phan (TV host)
39 - Kelli Garner (actress)
42 - Alessandra Ambrosio (model)
49 - Tricia Helfer (actress)
49 - David Banner (rapper)
54 - Johnny Messner (actor)
57 - Lisa Stansfield (singer)
59 - Steve Azar (singer)
63 - Jeremy Clarkson (actor)
73 - Bill Irwin (actor)
76 - Peter Riegert (actor)
84 - Louise Lasser (actress)
91 - Joel Grey (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 11
1907 - In New York, umpire Bill Klem called a forfeit in favor of the Phillies when Giants fans disrupted play with snowballs.
1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
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.
1963 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves picks up his 328th career win, a new MLB record for a left-handed thrower.
1965 - Jack Nicklaus wins his second Masters.
1966 - Jack Nicklaus becomes the first golfer to win back-to-back Masters titles, and his third overall.
1980 - Gordie Howe played his final NHL game at 52 years and 10 days old.
1983 - Seve Ballesteros of Spain wins the Masters.
1993 - Germany's Bernhard Langer wins his second Masters.
1996 - The Detroit Red Wings become the second team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season.
1999 - Spain's Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters.
2001 - In Johannesburg, South Africa, 43 people died during a stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium. Another 160 were injured.
2004 - Phil Mickelson wins his first Masters and major title.
2010 - Phil Mickelson wins his third Masters.
2021 - Hideki Matsuyama becomes the first Japanese golfer to win a major when he wins the Masters.
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 - Cockeye imposed the nation's first state cigarette tax.
1945 - Allies liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
1951 - President Harry S. Truman removed Gen. Douglas MacArthur from command.
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.
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 - Uganda dictator Idi Amin was 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 he was shot in an assassination attempt.
1996 - Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, was killed along with her father and flight instructor when their plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
2007 - Science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at age 84.
2018 - California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump’s call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border but said the troops would have nothing to do with immigration enforcement.
2018 - A military transport plane crashed just after takeoff in Algeria, killing 257 people in the worst aviation disaster in the history of the North African country.
Birthdays
23 - Milly Alcock (actress)
27 - Summer Walker (singer)
30 - Marcus Johns (actor)
31 - Kaitlyn Jenkins (actress)
36 - Joss Stone (singer)
36 - Michelle Phan (TV host)
39 - Kelli Garner (actress)
42 - Alessandra Ambrosio (model)
49 - Tricia Helfer (actress)
49 - David Banner (rapper)
54 - Johnny Messner (actor)
57 - Lisa Stansfield (singer)
59 - Steve Azar (singer)
63 - Jeremy Clarkson (actor)
73 - Bill Irwin (actor)
76 - Peter Riegert (actor)
84 - Louise Lasser (actress)
91 - Joel Grey (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 11
1907 - In New York, umpire Bill Klem called a forfeit in favor of the Phillies when Giants fans disrupted play with snowballs.
1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
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.
1963 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves picks up his 328th career win, a new MLB record for a left-handed thrower.
1965 - Jack Nicklaus wins his second Masters.
1966 - Jack Nicklaus becomes the first golfer to win back-to-back Masters titles, and his third overall.
1980 - Gordie Howe played his final NHL game at 52 years and 10 days old.
1983 - Seve Ballesteros of Spain wins the Masters.
1993 - Germany's Bernhard Langer wins his second Masters.
1996 - The Detroit Red Wings become the second team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season.
1999 - Spain's Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters.
2001 - In Johannesburg, South Africa, 43 people died during a stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium. Another 160 were injured.
2004 - Phil Mickelson wins his first Masters and major title.
2010 - Phil Mickelson wins his third Masters.
2021 - Hideki Matsuyama becomes the first Japanese golfer to win a major when he wins the Masters.
