History Events on April 11

A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.

#1981_Brixton_riot

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

#Johann_Sebastian_Bach

The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.

#Treaty_of_Fontainebleau_(1814)

War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.

#War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai

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.

#Stone_of_Scone

An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier.

#Battle_of_the_Basque_Roads

World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

#World_War_II

William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.

#William_III_of_England

Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected President by the National Congress.

#Humberto_de_Alencar_Castelo_Branco

SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.

#SMS_Blücher

Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

#Emir

The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

#Ghriba_synagogue_bombing

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

#Uganda

A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.

#2012_Indian_Ocean_earthquakes

The Apple I is created.

#Apple_I

Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

#Middlesbrough

The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

#Adolf_Eichmann

Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.

#Second_Battle_of_Rivas

Apollo 13 is launched.

#Apollo_13

An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.

#Ilyushin_Il-76

Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.

#2002_Venezuelan_coup_d'état_attempt

FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.

#1986_FBI_Miami_shootout

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

#Singapore

Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

#Korean_War

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

#Benevolent_and_Protective_Order_of_Elks

Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.

#Rudi_Dutschke

The city of Tel Aviv is founded.

#Tel_Aviv

An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.

#2011_Minsk_Metro_bombing

Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.

#Batu_Khan

War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.

#War_of_the_Spanish_Succession

Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.

The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.

Four hundred fifty 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.

The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.

The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.

#Pope_John_XXIII

The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

Former sh?gun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Italian War of 1542-46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.

Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Boles?aw II of Poland.

Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.