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Events. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.; 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.; 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.; 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. [1]1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. [2]1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.
April 11, 1954: Piero Scotti after victory at the 1954 Coppa della Toscana. Italian driver Piero Scotti won the 1954 Coppa della Toscana sports car race in a Ferrari 375 MM. [25] In a general election in Belgium, the Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. [26]
The 1986 FBI Miami shootout occurred on April 11, 1986, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S. (the specific area was incorporated as Pinecrest in 1996), when a small group of field agents for the FBI attempted to apprehend William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt, who were suspected of committing a series of violent crimes in and around the Miami metropolitan area.
April 11; April 11. Michael Card, Christian musician; Jim Lauderdale, bluegrass musician; April 12. Vince Gill, singer and songwriter; Adam Parfrey, journalist and editor (d. 2018) [11] Suzzanne Douglas, African-American actress (d. 2021) [12] April 14 – Richard Jeni, comedian (d. 2007) April 16 – Essex Hemphill, African American poet and ...
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April 2. Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general (b. 1899) Maud Barger-Wallach, tennis player (b. 1870) April 8 – Fritzi Scheff, singer and actress (b. 1879 in Austria) April 19 – Russell Davenport, journalist and publisher (b. 1899) April 21 – Emil Post, mathematician and logician (b. 1897) April 29 – Joe May, film director (b. 1880 in ...
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