On This Day in History April 11, 2020

Historical Events 1512  Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars 1783  Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War 1814  Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba 1868  The Shogunate is abolished in Japan 1955  Chartered Air India plane the "Kashmir Princess" is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent 1968  US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1979  Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya 2015  Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Ethel Kennedy 95th Birthday George Canning (1770 - 1827) Richard Kuklinski (1935 - 2006) Septimius Severus (146 - 211) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) Maria Tallchief (1925 - 2013) More Famous Deaths