April 11

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[edit] Events

• 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
• 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
• 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• 1981 - A race riot occurs in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• 2002 - In Tunisia the Ghriba synagogue bombing is carried out by Al Qaeda.

[edit] Births

• 1357 - John I of Portugal
• 1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)

[edit] Deaths

• 1240 - Llywelyn the Great
• 1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)