04-11-2006, 05:17 AM
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April 11th
1814 ~ Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba.
1893 ~ Birthday of Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State.
1899 ~ Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the U.S.
1906 ~ Death of James Bailey, co-founder with Phineas Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
1945 ~ U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 ~ President Truman replaced General MacArthur with Lieutenant-General Ridgway.
1961 ~ Bob Dylan made his singing début in New York City.
1961 ~ Start of war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann.
1979 ~ Idi Amin deposed as president of Uganda.
2001 ~ China agreed to free the crew of an American spy plane that had collided with a Chinese fighter plane.
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