history at a glance TODAY is Sunday April 11 the 101st day of the year. There are 264 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall

command in Korea.

1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.

1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.

1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.

2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

2003 – US and Kurdish forces took Iraq’s third city of Mosul without a fight, sealing victory in the north.

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

2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.

2012 – An 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.