2008 Woodie Awards
On this day...Aprill 11th
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: News
1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity.)
1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.
1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S state to impose a cigarette tax.
1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
Births:
1852 - Cap Anson, American
baseball player
1862 - William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer
1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini
1908 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge
1921 - Jim Hearn, American
baseball player
1928 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of
Robert F. Kennedy
1955 - Michael Callen, American singer, songwriter and AIDS activist
1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich, American
child actress
Deaths:
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S.
general
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The
Elephant Man"
1970 - John O'Hara, American author
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12)
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author
1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity.)
1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.
1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S state to impose a cigarette tax.
1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
Births:
1852 - Cap Anson, American
baseball player
1862 - William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer
1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini
1908 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge
1921 - Jim Hearn, American
baseball player
1928 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of
Robert F. Kennedy
1955 - Michael Callen, American singer, songwriter and AIDS activist
1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich, American
child actress
Deaths:
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S.
general
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The
Elephant Man"
1970 - John O'Hara, American author
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12)
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author
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