April 11

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 

Proverbs 27:1

April is:

• National TMJ Awareness Month - Sponsor: Dr Michael Weinstock.
  
  
• National Welding Month - Sponsor: American Welding Society.
  
  
• National Woodworking Month - Create something beautiful and functional with wood. Sponsor: Minwax Company.
  
  
• Sexual Assault Awareness Month -

Today is:

• Barbershop Quartet Day - In 1938, The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America was formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sponsor: SPEBSQSA
  
  
• Civil Rights Act of l 968 Anniversary - President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, providing greater protection of civil rights workers, anti-discrimination housing, and expanded rights for Native Americans.
  
  
• First black to play major league baseball (1947) - Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the first black to play major league baseball. 
  
  
• First building-and-loan mortgage (1831) - Comley Rich of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received the first mortgage.
  
  
• First cigarette taxes (1921) - Iowa was the first state to tax cigarettes.
  
  
• First Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare - Oveta Culp Hobby became the first HEW Secretary in 1953. 
  
  
• Sexual harassment banned (1980) - EEO regulations banned sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.

Born on this Day

• 1370: Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
  

• 1770: George Canning, British prime minister (1827)
  

• 1794: Edward Everett, governor of Massachusetts, statesman and orator
  

• 1862: Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who resisted President Franklin Roosevelt’s attempts to "pack: the Supreme Court with judges favorable to the New Deal.
  

• 1893: Dean G. Acheson, U.S. secretary of state (1949-53) who helped create NATO.
  

• 1907: Actor Paul Douglas (The Mating Game, Panic in the Streets, Executive Suite, This Could be the Night, The Gamma People)
  

• 1912: Jazz musician John Levy (Played with George Shearing quintet)
  

• 1913: Fashion designer Oleg Cassini
  

• 1916: Movie producer Howard W. Koch
  

• 1918: Actor Cameron Mitchell (Carousel, Code of Honor, Hollywood Cop, Terror in Beverly Hills, Silent Scream, Buck and the Preacher, Crossing the Line, Cult People, The Bastard)
  

• 1919: Former New York State Governor Hugh Carey
  

• 1921: Actress and singer Dorothy (Sims) Shay (The Park Avenue Hillbilly - Feudin' and Fightin')
  

• 1928: Ethel Kennedy, wife of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Some sources 1925)
  

• 1931: Actor Johnny Sheffield (Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan's Secret Treasure, Tarzan's New York Adventure)
  

• 1932: Actor Joel Grey
  

• 1939: Actress Louise Lasser
  

• 1941: Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman
  

• 1944: Movie writer-director John Milius
  

• 1947: Actor Peter Riegert
  

• 1949: Actor Bill Irwis
  

• 1957: Country singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale
  

• 1957: Songwriter-producer Daryl Simmons
  

• 1961: Actor Lucky Vanous
  

• 1964: Country singer Steve Azar
  

• 1965: Rock musician Nigel Pulsford (Bush)
  

• 1966: Singer Lisa Stansfield
  

• 1970: Rock musician Dylan Keefe (Marcy Playground) 
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1512: The forces of the Holy League are heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna.
  

• 1689: William the Third and Mary the Second were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
  

• 1713: The Treaty of Utrecht is signed, ending the War of Spanish Succession. France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain.
  

• 1783: After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on 13 March, Congress proclaims a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
  

• 1803: A twin-screw propeller steamboat was patented by John Stevens. The boat was 25-feet-long and four-feet-wide.
  

• 1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba.
  

• 1876: The stenotype was patented by John C. Zachos of New York City.
  

• 1898: President McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war against Spain.
  

• 1899: The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared effect.
  

• 1921: Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
  

• 1921: The first live sports event on radio took place this day over KDKA Radio. Pittsburgh sports writer, Florent Gibson, gave an account of the action in the lightweight boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
  

• 1940: Andrew Ponzi of New York set a world's record in a New York pocket billiards tournament. Ponzi ran 127 balls straight.
  

• 1941: Germany bombers blitz Conventry, England.
  

• 1945: During World War Two, American soldiers liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald Germany.
  

• 1951: President Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his commands the Far East.
  

• 1956: Elvis Presley reached the top spot on the "Billboard" music chart with his first double-sided hit. The disk featured "Heartbreak Hotel" and "I Was The One." The RCA Victor record stayed at number one for eight weeks.
  

• 1961: Israel begins the trial of Adolf Eichman, accused of World War II war crimes.
  

• 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gangarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
  

• 1961: Bob Dylan made his professional singing debut in Greenwich Village. He sang "Blowin' In The Wind".
  

• 1965: For the second time, Jack Nicklaus won the Masters golf title.
  

• 1968: President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of MartLuther King Junior.
  

• 1970: Apollo 13 blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon. (The astronauts managed to return safely).
  

• 1974: The Judiciary committee subpoenas President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
  

• 1979: Idi Amwas deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control.
  

• 1981: President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from hospital after recovery from an assassination attempt.
  

• 1981: Wedding bells chimed this day for guitarist, Eddie Van Halen and actress, Valerie Bertinelli of "One Day At A Time" on CBS-TV.
  

• 1986: Kellogg's of Battle Creek, Michigan stopped its 80-year tradition of tours of the breakfast food plant on this day, saying that company secrets were at risk with spies from other cereal manufacturers.
  

• 1986: Dodge Morgan sails solo nonstop around the world in 150 days.
  

• 1989: Mexican officials unearthed the remains of 12 of 13 victims of a drug-trafficking cult near Matamoros. (One of the dead was University of Texas student Mark Kilroy, who had disappeared while on spring break.)
  

• 1980: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
  

• 1990: Funeral services were held in Indianapolis for AIDS patient Ryan White, who had died three days earlier at age 18. Among the 15-hundred mourners were first lady Barbara Bush and singers Elton John and Michael Jackson.
  

• 1991: U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq.
  

• 1991: The space shuttle "Atlantis" landed safely after an extended, 93-orbit mission that included deployment of an observatory. 
  

• 1991: The musical "Miss Saigon," denounced by detractors as racist and sexist, opened on Broadway. 
  

• 1994: The White House disclosed that President and Mrs. Clinton had failed to report $6,498 income that the first lady made commodities trading 1980; the couple wrote checks totaling $14,615 back taxes and interest.
  

• 1995: President Clinton expressed sympathy for Pakistan's anger over the blocked sale of American fighter jets, telling visiting Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto that it was "not right" for the United States to keep the planes and refuse to give the money back.
  

• 1996: Forty-three African nations sign the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.
  

• 1996: Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who'd hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, was killed along with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
  

• 1998: The executive committee of the Ulster Union Party voted 55-to-23 to support the Northern Ireland peace accord and its leader, David Trimble, who had outmaneuvered rebels his ranks.
  

• 1999: The Justice Department reported that more than a third of the women in state prisons and jails said they were physically or sexually abused as children.
  

• 1999: Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters by two shots over Davis Love the Third.
  

•  2000: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with President Clinton at the White House in what a senior US official described as a good, productive, serious discussion. 
  

• 2000: A British judge branded historian David Irving an anti-Semite racist and an apologist for Adolf Hitler, ruling that an American scholar was justified in calling him a Holocaust denier. 
  

• 2001: Israeli tanks and bulldozers rumble into the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp in Palestinian-controlled territory, damaging 30 homes and triggering fighting that kills two Palestinians and wounds more than two dozen.
  

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