April 11<\/p>\n
1814
\nNapoleon was exiled to the island of Elba.<\/p>\n
1899
\nThe treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect.<\/p>\n
1921
\nIowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.<\/p>\n
1945
\nAllies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.<\/p>\n
1951
\nPresident Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur.<\/p>\n
1968
\nPresident Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.<\/p>\n
1979
\nUgandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown.<\/p>\n
1981
\nPresident Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after he was shot in an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n
2007
\nScience-fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at age 84.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Charles Evans Hughes
\nAmerican statesman and jurist (1862)<\/p>\n
Dean Acheson
\nstatesman (1893)<\/p>\n
Percy Lavon Julian
\nchemist (1899)<\/p>\n
Oleg Cassini
\nfashion designer (1913)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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