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This page lists some of the events to happen on April 11th throughout
history.
1985 Josh Riedy
1985 Justin Scardami
1794 Edward Everett statesman and orator d: 1865
1862 Charles Evans Hughes 11th chief justice of the US Supreme Court d:
1948
1864 Lillie P. Bliss founder [with 2 other women] of New York City’s Museum
of Modern Art
1893 Lou Holtz comedian, actor d: 1980
1899 Percy Julian scientist d: 1975
1907 Paul Douglas actor d: 1959
1908 Jane Bolin attorney, judge
1912 John Levy jazz musician, bassist
1913 Oleg Cassini fashion designer
1918 Cameron Mitchell actor
1918 Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber author
1921 Dorothy Shay [Sims] singer
1922 Ralph Blaze guitarist
1928 Ethel Kennedy [Skakel] widow of
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy
1931 Johnny Sheffield actor
1932 Joel Grey [Katz] Academy award-winning actor
1933 Tony Brown journalist
1939 Louise Lasser actress
1944 Joe Beauchamp football
1947 Peter Riegert actor
1947 Meshach Taylor actor
1948 Ellen Goodman Pulitzer prize winning columnist
1950 Bill Irwin actor, choreographer
1951 Steve George football
1951 Sid Monge baseball
1956 Neville Staples singer
1958 Stuart [William] Adamson musician, guitarist, singer
1964 Bret Saberhagen baseball
Events
1985 - The coolest people ever were born and they are the only ones not going to Florida. So dave and Ryan can Suck It.
1672 - Deusdedit III began his reign as Catholic pope. 1803 - John Stevens
patented a twin-screw propeller steamboat. The boat was a total of 25-feet
long and four-feet wide.
1814 - Napoleon is exiled to Elba.
1862 - Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski during the U.S. Civil War.
1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized.
1876 - John C. Zachos of New York City patented the stenotype.
1898 - United States President William McKinley asked for the Spanish-American
War declaration.
1905 - Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line
were completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the bridge connects
Zambia and Zimbabwe. The bridge is close to the Victoria Falls, Africa's
greatest waterfall.
1921 - Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.
1921 - The first live sports event carried on radio was heard over KDKA
Radio. A sports writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Florent Gibson,
gave an account of events in the lightweight boxing match between Johnny
Ray and Johnny Dundee.
1940 - New York's Andrew Ponzi set a world’s record in a pocket billiards
tournament held in New York; where he ran 127 balls straight.
1941 - Germany blitzed Conventry, England.
1942 - The Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines was authorized.
1943 - On Mutual Radio "Nick Carter, Master Detective" debuted.
The show was based on an 1886 character from the "New York Weekly".
1945 - United States soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.
1947 - Jackie Robinson made his major-league debut, playing in an exhibition
game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
1951 - United States President Harry Truman fired Gen. Douglas McArthur.
1956 - Elvis Presley reached #1 on the "Billboard" music chart
with his first double-sided hit, featuring "Heartbreak Hotel"
and "I Was the One." Elvis also made the country and R&B
charts with the record, as well.
1956 - Six whites attacked popular black singer Nat King Cole as he performed
before an all-white audience in Birmingham, Alabama. They were later indicted
for the assault.
1961 - Carl Yastrzemski, then 21 with only two years experience in the
minor leagues, replaced Ted Williams in left field for the Boston Red
Sox. In his first time at bat, he got a hit off Kansas City’s Ray Herbert.
In 1984, Yastrzemski retired, having played his entire major-league career
with the Boston Red Sox.
1961 - Bob Dylan, at 19, made his New York City stage debut on this date
at Gerde's Folk City, a small Greenwich Village club.
1962 - The New York Mets, managed by Casey Stengel, played their first
regular season game. Unfortunately the lost their first ten games. At
this game, the St. Louis Cardinals won, 11-4 . In response to the lose,
Stengel to said, in front of a group of reporters and players, “Can anyone
here play this game?”
1964 - Wonker's birth was registered, and left for adoption by his mother
to be picked up by his adoptive parents a year later.
1965 - Jack Nicklaus won the Masters golf title for the second time; shooting
a par 271. There was a tie for second place, with the honor going to both
Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. This was the first time the ‘Big Three’
finished 1, 2, 3 in a tournament.
1965 - 40 tornadoes struck the United States Midwest, killing 272 people
and injuring 5,000.
1968 - United States President Lyndon B Johnson signed the 1968 Civil
Rights Act.
1970 - Apollo 13 was launched to the moon; unable to land, it returned
in 6 days.
1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown.
1981 - Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress, Valerie Bertinelli of CBS-TV's
"One Day at a Time" were married in Los Angeles, California.
Van Halen was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, but moved to Pasadena,
California in 1968.
1974, Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex formed a band that also included
singer David Lee Roth; who was replaced by rocker, Sammy Hagar,
1981. Van Halen's hit songs included: "Jump", "Dance the
Night Away", "(Oh) Pretty Woman", "Why Can’t This
Be Love", "Dreams" and "When It’s Love".
1983 - At the Academy Awards ceremony, during one of the more embarrassing
moments in its history, the presentation of Best Animated Short Subject
went to the Polish nominee for Tango, and presenter Kristy McNichol could
not pronounce the winner's name, Zbigniew Rybcyznski. Later, after a backstage
interview, Rybcyznski stepped outside for a cigarette, only to not be
permitted back in by a security guard. He repeated the only English he
knew, "I have Oscar," but the guard refused, as Rybcynski was
wearing a tuxedo with tennis shoes. Rybcyznski got angry and kicked the
guard, and after a brief struggle, was arrested and thrown into jail.
He asked for the only Hollywood lawyer he knew of, Marvin Mitchelson.
All charges against Rubcyznski were dropped.
1983 - Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of the city
of Chicago.
1984 - In a National Basketball Association game, the Detroit Pistons
beat the Philadelphia 76ers 126-113; marking the first time since November
2, 1974, that the Pistons defeated the 76ers at the Spectrum in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania for a span of 22 games.
1986 - Kellogg’s, a cereal company in Battle Creek, Michigan, stopped
its 80-year long tradition of allowing tours of their breakfast-food plant
today. They said company secrets were at risk from other cereal makers'
spies.
1986 - Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth.
1988 - At the Academy Awards, the movie The Last Emperor, nominated for
nine Academy Awards, won all nine, including Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design. 1991 - The United Nations
Security Council issued a formal cease-fire with Iraq declaration.
1998 - A Gallup Poll reported that a large majority of Britons believed
that Princess Diana's memory was being exploited and that she was still
the focus of too much media coverage. The use of the official logo of
the princess's memorial charity on a tub of margarine was highly criticized
by 94 percent of those polled. Eighty percent said her image was being
used in bad taste.
Famous people born.
Andrew Carnegie, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand, Bob Dylan, Cindy
Crawford, Douglas MacArthur, Elizabeth Taylor, Fritz Lang, George Orwell,
George S. Patton, John Von Neumann, John Wilkes Booth, Jonas Salk, Laurence
Olivier, Matt Damon, Michelangelo, Naomi Campbell, Oscar Wilde, Pablo
Picasso, Paul Newman, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ulysses S. Grant, wonker?
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