April 11

1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.

1713 – In the Dutch city of Utrecht, France signs a peace treaty with Great Britain and the Netherlands, formally ending ‘Queen Anne’s War’ in North America and the English colonies.

1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks club is organized in New York City.

1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary.

1945 – A detachment of troops of the U.S. 9th Armored Infantry Battalion,  6th Armored Division, 3rd Army, and under the command of Captain Frederic Keffer, liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany.

1951 – President Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.

1961 – The war crimes trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

1964 – After a military coup d’é·tat, Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Branco is elected President by the National Congress.

1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 51 tornadoes hits 6  midwestern states, killing 256 people.

1968 – President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

1970 –The Apollo 13 mission is launched from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts, James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred W. Haise aboard.

1976 – The Apple Computer 1 desktop computer is released for sale by the Apple Computer Company.

1986 – In Dade County, Florida,  a gun fight breaks out between a pair of bank robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan are killed, while 5 other agents are wounded before the bandits are finally killed. As a result, the FBI begins a search for a new round that ends with the development and adoption of the .40 S&W cartridge.

1993 – On Easter Sunday, approximately 450 prisoners riot over prison conditions at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, taking 8 guards hostage, later killing 1 guard and 9 other inmates before surrendering 10 days later.

2001 – The detained crew of a U. S. Navy EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China on April 1, after a collision with a Chinese jet fighter, is released.

2002 – In Caracas, Venezuela , 19 protesters are killed during a march of over 200,000 people demanding the resignation of president Hugo Chávez.

2021 – Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota by officer Kimberly Potter, when the officer allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser. She is later charged and convicted of manslaughter in the case.