11 April

1554    Thomas Wyatt the Younger (died), English rebel (born 1521)

1592    John Eliot (born), English politician (died 1632)

1626    Marin Getaldić (died), Croatian mathematician and physicist (born 1568)

1683   Jean-Joseph Mouret (born), French composer (died 1738)

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

1715     John Alcock (born), English organist and composer (died 1806)

1727    Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

1755    James Parkinson (born), English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (died 1824)

1814    The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.

1819    Charles Hallé (born), German-English pianist and conductor (died 1895)

1825    Ferdinand Lassalle (born), German jurist and philosopher (died 1864)

1859    Stefanos Thomopoulos (born), Greek historian (died 1939)

1862   William Wallace Campbell (born), American astronomer (died 1938)

1869   Kasturba Gandhi (born), Indian wife of Mohandas Gandhi (died 1944)

1876    The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

1881    Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

1889   Nick LaRocca (born), American trumpet player and bandleader (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (died 1961)

1890   Rachele Mussolini (born), Italian wife of Benito Mussolini (died 1979)

1893   Dean Acheson (born), American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (died 1971)

1906   James Anthony Bailey (died), American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (born 1847)

1908   Henry Bird (died), English chess player and author (born 1829)

1908   Masaru Ibuka (born), Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (died 1997)

1913    Oleg Cassini (born), French-American fashion designer (died 2006)

1919    The International Labour Organization is founded.

1926    Luther Burbank (died), American botanist (born 1849)

1928   Ethel Kennedy (born), American wife of Robert F. Kennedy

1930   Anton LaVey (born), American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (died 1997)

1932    Joel Grey (born), American actor, singer, and dancer

1941    Ellen Goodman (born), American journalist

1951    Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

1951    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.

1952    Peter Windsor (born), English journalist

1954    David Perrett (born), Scottish psychologist

1954    Ian Redmond (born), British tropical field biologist and conservationist

1955    The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

1961    The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

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

1970    Apollo 13 is launched.

1972    First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

1976    The Apple I is created.

1979    Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

1987    Erskine Caldwell (died), American author (born 1903)

1989   Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.

2002   Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV.

2003   Cecil Howard Green (died), English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (born 1900)

2006   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

2006   June Pointer (died), American singer (Pointer Sisters) (born 1953)

2007   Kurt Vonnegut (died), American author (born 1922)

2012   A 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.

2013   Jonathan Winters (died), American comedian and actor (born 1925)

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Interests include biological anthropology, evolution, social behavior, and human behavior. Conducted field research in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya and on Angaur, Palau, Micronesia, as well as research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.
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