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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.
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.
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 17 violent tornadoes on April 11, 1965, set a 24-hour record that stood until the first Super Outbreak produced 30 in 1974. [41] With 137 people killed and 1,200 injured in Indiana alone, the outbreak set a 24-hour record for tornado deaths in that state ; [ 42 ] it also generated nine tornadoes of F4 or greater intensity in the same state ...
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.
1993 – Prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, Ohio, rioted and took over the prison for 11 days, resulting in the deaths of one officer and nine inmates. 1996 – While attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States, the aircraft flown by seven-year-old Jessica ...
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The tornado outbreak of April 10–11, 2001, was a large tornado outbreak which affected the central Great Plains on April 10–11, 2001. During the two-day outbreak, it produced a total of 79 tornadoes across eight states including Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan.