TODAY IN HISTORY

MONDAY APR 11, 2022

1968

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther

1814

King Jr.

Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.

1865

President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.”

1899

The treaty ending the Spanish-american War was declared in effect.

1913

Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson, during a meeting of President Woodrow Wilson’s Cabinet, proposed gradually segregating whites and Blacks who worked for the Railway Mail Service, a policy that went into effect and spread to other agencies.

1945

During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

1947

Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers played in an exhibition against the New York Yankees at Ebbets Field, four days before his regular-season debut that broke baseball’s color line.

1961

Former SS officer Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust.

1970

Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.

1980

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.

1996

7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who hoped to become the youngest person to fly crosscountry, was killed along with her father and flight instructor when their plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

2020

The number of U.S. deaths from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy’s for the highest in the world, topping 20,000. On the day before Easter, the Kansas Supreme Court allowed an executive order from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to remain in effect; it banned religious and funeral services of more than 10 people during the pandemic.