On this day: 11 April

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Events · 27

• 1241(Julian date)
  Battle of Mohi — 1241 battle during the Mongol invasion of Hungary
• 1512(Julian date)
  Battle of Ravenna — 1512 battle
• 1544
  Battle of Ceresole — 1544 battle in Piedmont, Italy
• 1809
  Battle of the Basque Roads — 1809 naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars
• 1814
  Treaty of Fontainebleau — 1814 treaty
• 1856
  Second Battle of Rivas — 1856 battle of the Filibuster War
• 1885
  Luton Town F.C. — association football club in Luton, England
• 1909
  Tel Aviv — city in Israel
• 1951
  Relief of Douglas MacArthur — President Harry S. Truman's dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War for publicly disputing Truman's policies
• 1952
  Bolivian National Revolution (1952-1964) — revolution that occurred in Bolivia in 1952
• 1952
  Pan Am Flight 526A — Aircraft water landing in 1952
• 1955
  Kashmir Princess — Air India bomb explosion
• 1979
  Fall of Kampala — battle in the Uganda–Tanzania War, April 1979
• 1983
  55th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1982
• 1986
  1986 FBI Miami shootout — gun battle between eight FBI agents and two serial bank robbers and murderers in Miami in 1986
• 1993
  Assassination of Guillem Agulló i Salvador — 1993 murder of Valencian activist
• 2001
  Australia 31–0 American Samoa — association football match
• 2002
  2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt — Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002
• 2002
  Ghriba synagogue bombing — 2002 Islamist suicide bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia
• 2007
  11 April 2007 Algiers bombings — 2007 terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda in Algiers, Algeria
• 2008
  2008 Chișinău Antonov An-32 crash — 2008 aviation incident in Moldova
• 2011
  2011 Minsk Metro bombing — 2011 bombing of Kastryčnickaja metro station, Minsk, Belarus
• 2012
  2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes — earthquake
• 2017
  2017 attack on Borussia Dortmund team bus — Wikinews Article
• 2018
  2018 Algerian Air Force Il-76 crash — military aircraft crash in which 257 people including civilian passengers were killed
• 2021
  killing of Daunte Wright — police homicide in Minnesota
• 2023
  Pazigyi massacre — 2023 mass killing in Myanmar

Births · 60

• 1348(Julian date)
  Andronikos IV Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor
• 1357(Julian date)
  John I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1385 to 1433
• 1370(Julian date)
  Frederick I — Elector of Saxony
• 1749
  Adélaïde Labille-Guiard — French painter and miniaturist (1749–1803)
• 1755
  James Parkinson — English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
• 1770
  George Canning — British Prime Minister, statesman, and politician (1770-1827)
• 1794
  Edward Everett — American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and orator (1794–1865)
• 1798
  Macedonio Melloni — Italian physicist (1798–1854)
• 1825
  Ferdinand Lassalle — German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
• 1862
  Charles Evans Hughes — American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862–1948)
• 1862
  William Wallace Campbell — American astronomer (1862–1938)
• 1869
  — Norwegian sculptor (1869–1943)
• 1872
  Aleksander Stavre Drenova — Albanian poet (1872–1947)
• 1876(Julian date)
  Ivane Javakhishvili — Georgian historian and linguist (1876-1940)
• 1893
  Dean Acheson — American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)
• 1900
  Sándor Márai — Hungarian writer (1900–1989)
• 1905
  Attila József — Hungarian poet (1905–1937)
• 1908
  Masaru Ibuka — Japanese businessman (1908–1997)
• 1910
  António de Spínola — President of Portugal (1974)
• 1916
  Alberto Ginastera — Argentine composer (1916-1983)
• 1916
  Hidetoki Takahashi — Japanese association football player and manager (1916–2000)
• 1920
  Emilio Colombo — Italian Prime Minister, politician (1920-2013)
• 1928
  Ethel Kennedy — American human-rights campaigner and spouse of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• 1930
  Anton LaVey — founder of the Church of Satan; author of the Satanic Bible (1930-1997)
• 1932
  Joel Grey — American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)

Deaths · 60

• 482(Julian date)
  Emperor Gao of Southern Qi — Southern Qi emperor
• 618(Julian date)
  Emperor Yang of Sui — emperor of the Sui Dynasty
• 1034(Julian date)
  Romanos III Argyros — Byzantine emperor
• 1077(Julian date)
  Anawrahta — founder of the Pagan Empire
• 1079(Julian date)
  Stanislaus of Szczepanów — Polish Catholic bishop, saint, the principal patron of Poland (1030-1079)
• 1165(Julian date)
  Stephen IV of Hungary — King of Hungary and Croatia (1133-1165)
• 1240(Julian date)
  Llywelyn ab Iorwerth — Prince of Gwynedd from 1199 to 1240
• 1447(Julian date)
  Henry Beaufort — Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of Lincoln; Bishop of Winchester
• 1512(Julian date)
  Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours — Infante of Navarre and French military commander
• 1554
  Thomas Wyatt — English rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I (1521-1554)
• 1626
  Marin Getaldić — Croatian mathematician and physicist
• 1712
  Richard Simon — Biblical critic (1638–1712)
• 1783
  Nikita Panin — Russian statesman (1718–1783)
• 1798
  Karl Wilhelm Ramler — German poet (1725-1798)
• 1856
  Juan María Santamaría Rodríguez — national hero of Costa Rica (1831-1856)
• 1870
  Justo José de Urquiza — Argentine politician and military (1801–1870)
• 1890
  Joseph Merrick — British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man
• 1895
  Lothar Meyer — German chemist and physician (1830-1895)
• 1902
  Wade Hampton III — American politician (1818-1902)
• 1903
  Gemma Galgani — Italian saint (1878-1903)
• 1903
  Ronglu — Qing Dynasty politician (1836-1903)
• 1908
  Henry Bird — English chess player (1830–1908)
• 1916
  Richard Harding Davis — American journalist and fiction writer (1864–1916)
• 1918
  Otto Wagner — Austrian architect (1841-1918)
• 1921
  Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein — German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1858–1921)