Once Upon A Time – April 11 – 1979 – Tanzanian Army Captures Capital Of Uganda Forcing Idi Amin To Flee Into Exile

1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars

1782 Moravians missionaries David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder arrive at Fort Detroit, brought there by British Colonel De Peyster. They will be tried for treason on suspicion that they sent information to colonial rebels but will be found not guilty.

1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War

1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean

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

2019 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power

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1955 “Marty” directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair premieres in New York (Best Picture 1956)

1966 Frank Sinatra records “Strangers in the Night” single for his album of the same name. Later reaches #1 Billboard charts

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1750 Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight

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1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy

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2013 Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China