April 11<\/p>\n
1689 \u2013 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.<\/p>\n
1713 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1876 \u2013 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks club is organized in New York City.<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 A detachment of troops of the U.S. 9th Armored Infantry Battalion,\u00a0 6th Armored Division, 3rd Army, and under the command of Captain Frederic Keffer, liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany.<\/p>\n
1951 \u2013 President Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n
1961 \u2013 The war crimes trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1964 \u2013 After a military coup d’\u00e9\u00b7tat, Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Branco is elected President by the National Congress.<\/p>\n
1965 \u2013 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 51 tornadoes hits 6\u00a0 midwestern states, killing 256 people.<\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.<\/p>\n
1970 \u2013The Apollo 13 mission is launched from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts, James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred W. Haise aboard.<\/p>\n
1976 \u2013 The Apple Computer 1<\/em> desktop computer is released for sale by the Apple Computer Company.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 In Dade County, Florida,\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 In Caracas, Venezuela , 19 protesters are killed during a march of over 200,000 people demanding the resignation of president Hugo Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 11 1689 \u2013 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. 1713 \u2013 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 \u2013 The Benevolent and Protective Order … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91713,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66714\/revisions\/91713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}