TODAY IN HISTORY

On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.

In 1865, outside the White House, President Abraham Lincoln gave what would be his last public address, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.”

In 1899, the treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect.

In 1921, Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax, at 2 cents a package.

In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

In 1961, former SS officer Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel for his role in the Nazi Holocaust.

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.