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1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched. 1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt. 2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid ...
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 264 days remain until the end of the year.
August. August 5–8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U.S. president and Spiro Agnew for vice president. August 21 – The Medal of Honor is posthumously awarded to James Anderson Jr.; he is the first black U.S. Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
September 2 – Liberty's Kids premieres on PBS Kids. September 4 – Kelly Clarkson wins the first American Idol competition. September 5 – The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,022 km 2 ), is contained. September 7 – The Fox Network's Fox Kids block (which had been on the air since 1990 ...
March 1 – E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter. March 3 – Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. March 4 – President Ulysses S. Grant begins his second term.
August 9 – Atomic bombing of Nagasaki: United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man", on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time, resulting in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths. August 14 (August 15 in Japan) – Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.
April 11, 1954, is considered by search engine Evi as the least eventful day in the 20th century. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day. [29] [30] Born: Ian F. Akyildiz (born Ilhan Fuat Akyildiz), Turkish American electrical engineer; in Istanbul, Turkey [citation needed]
April–June. April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000. May 15 – In Samoa, 3 U.S. and 3 German ships sink in a typhoon because the captains refuse to leave before the others ...