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| About April 11th is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1755 - James Parkinson, discovered Parkinson's disease 1862 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Chief Justice, U.S. Secretary of State 1916 - Dan Fortmann, Hall of Fame offensive lineman 1928 - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert Kennedy 1939 - Louise Lasser, actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) 1963 - Chris Ferguson, professional poker player 1987 - Joss Stone, British pop singer Deaths 1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. Army Officer, Union general 1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, fiction writer, journalist 1996 - Jessica Dubroff, child pilot (died during takeoff) 2006 - Proof, rapper, hip hop artist (D12) Events 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln gives his final public speech. 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States . 1905 - The Theory of Relativity is revealed by Albert Einstein. 1921 - The first sports radio broadcast takes place. 1921 - Iowa begins taxing cigarettes, becoming the first U.S. state to do so. 1945 - The Buchenwald concentration camp is liberated by American forces during WWII. 1947 - Jackie Robinson plays a MLB exhibition game, become the first black baseball player in the league. 1951 - General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of top command in the Korean War by President Harry S. Truman. 1965 - 51 tornadoes strike in six Midwestern states, killing a total of 256 people. 1968 - The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson which prohibits the discrimination of the sale, rental, and financing of real estate. 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida . 1976 - The Apple I, one of the first personal computers, is created. 1981 - 12 days after being shot in an assassination attempt, President Ronald Reagan returns to work at the White House. 1993 - A riot lasting 10 days takes place at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, when 450 prisons riot over prison conditions. 2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open on the opening day of baseball season. 2001 - The U.S. EP-3E aircraft crew is released after being detained when they landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after colliding with an J-8 fighter. |
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