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April 11
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Thursday November 20, 2008
April 11 in history:
- 1979: Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles overthrew Idi Amin Dada, a mass murderer and self-proclaimed president-for-life of Uganda.
- 1970: The nearly tragic Apollo 13 mission was launched; two days later an oxygen tank explosion crippled the vessel's power and life-support systems.
- 1958: Van Cliburn became the first American to win the Soviet-sponsored International Tchaikovsky Prize—a feat that made him an international cultural hero.
- 1951: President Harry S. Truman charged Gen. Douglas MacArthur with insubordination and relieved him of his command of the United Nations forces in the Korean War.
- 1945: Buchenwald, a German concentration camp near Weimar, was liberated by U.S. troops; Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of what they found ("the piles of naked, lifeless bodies, the human skeletons in furnaces, the living skeletons who would die the next day . . .") were published in the May 7, 1945, issue of Life magazine, giving the outside world one of its first views of a death camp.
- 1898: President William McKinley sent a message to Congress requesting a declaration of war to intervene against the Spanish in Cuba; Congress passed the resolution on April 25, initiating the Spanish-American War.
