TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, April 11, the 101st day of 2018. There are 264 days left in the year.
491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor. 1241 Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. 1544 Italian War of 1542– 46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1689 William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1713 Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Savoy, Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain. 1727 Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. 1809 An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court- martial of James, Lord Gambier. 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. 1825 Ferdinand, German jurist was born. 1830 Robert Schumann hears the violinist Paganini play in Frankfurt. 1848 Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under King Ferdinand of Austria. 1868 Former shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1881 Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African- American women.
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. 1955 Chartered Air India plane the “Kashmir Princess” is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent. 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1986 FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/ armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents.
2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al- Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2011 An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and severly leaves at least 204 injured among others.