WillDekkard
04-11-2011, 01:30 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - April 11th
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* 491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
* 1241 Batu Khan defeats Bιla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
* 1512 War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
* 1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
* 1713 War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
* 1775 The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
* 1809 Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and Britain
* 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.
* 1856 Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
* 1865 President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
* 1868 Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
* 1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
* 1881 Spelman College was founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
* 1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
* 1908 SMS Blόcher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
* 1919 The International Labour Organization is founded.
* 1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
* 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
* 1951 Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General 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 The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
* 1954 The most boring day since 1900 according to the True Knowledge Answer Engine
* 1955 The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
* 1957 Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
* 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
* 1965 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
* 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.
* 1976 The Apple I is created.
* 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
* 1981 A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
* 1986 The FBI Miami shootout between eight Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and two heavily-armed and well-trained gunmen.
* 1987 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
* 1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
* 1990 Konstantinos Mitsotakis becomes the 178th Prime Minister of Greece.
* 1993 450 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.
* 2000 AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
* 2001 The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.
* 2001 Australia beats American Samoa in a 31-0 win, the biggest ever in an international match of football.
* 2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
* 2002 An attempted coup d'ιtat in Venezuela against President Hugo Chαvez takes place.
* 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
* 2007 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
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Alessandra Corine Ambrσsio (born April 11, 1981)
Brazilian model
This Date in History - April 11th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
* 1241 Batu Khan defeats Bιla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
* 1512 War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
* 1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
* 1713 War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
* 1775 The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
* 1809 Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and Britain
* 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.
* 1856 Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
* 1865 President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
* 1868 Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
* 1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
* 1881 Spelman College was founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
* 1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
* 1908 SMS Blόcher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
* 1919 The International Labour Organization is founded.
* 1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
* 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
* 1951 Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General 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 The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
* 1954 The most boring day since 1900 according to the True Knowledge Answer Engine
* 1955 The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
* 1957 Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
* 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
* 1965 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
* 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.
* 1976 The Apple I is created.
* 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
* 1981 A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
* 1986 The FBI Miami shootout between eight Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and two heavily-armed and well-trained gunmen.
* 1987 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
* 1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
* 1990 Konstantinos Mitsotakis becomes the 178th Prime Minister of Greece.
* 1993 450 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.
* 2000 AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
* 2001 The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.
* 2001 Australia beats American Samoa in a 31-0 win, the biggest ever in an international match of football.
* 2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
* 2002 An attempted coup d'ιtat in Venezuela against President Hugo Chαvez takes place.
* 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
* 2007 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
end of c/p
Happy Birthday Alessandra !
http://www.hdtvtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6762&d=1302485123
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Corine Ambrσsio (born April 11, 1981)
Brazilian model