April 11th
Today in America's Present Past
1746 | Civil Rights: The First black American elected official, Wentworth Cheswell, was born.
1783 | War of Independence: Fighting formally ceased in the American Revolutionary War after the Continental Congress proclaimed the "Cessation of Arms.”
1862 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was born.
1865 | NAACP co-founder Mary White Ovington was born.
1881 | Spelman College founded.
1893 | Politician Dean Acheson was born.
1899 | Chemist Percy Lavon Julian was born.
1906 | Entertainer entrepreneur James Anthony Bailey died.
1916 | Author Richard Harding Davis died
1917 | Author David Westheimer was born.
1930 | Cleric Anton LaVey was born.
1945 | WWII: U.S. forces liberate Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.
1951 | POTUS: Democrat President Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur.
1967 | Civil Rights: A Long, hot summer of riots starts in Louisville, Kentucky.
1968 | POTUS: Democrat President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
1976 | Steve Wozniak released The Apple I computer.
1993 | The First African American female commercial pilot, Janet Harmon Bragg, died.
2007 | Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died.