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Events on April 11

• 1727 At the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion is premiered.
• 1814 The Allies of the Coalition Wars present Napoleon with an agreement for signature, providing for his unconditional abdication as ruler in France and Italy. It stipulates his exile to Elba. Napoleon signs the treaty two days later following an attempted suicide the night before.
• 1907 At the Zum Tannenbaum inn on the Waldhof in Mannheim, the football club Ramelia, which later became SV Waldhof Mannheim, is founded.
• 1912 The White Star Line liner Titanic, under Captain Edward John Smith, leaves the port of Queenstown in Ireland, where a few more passengers have boarded, and sets out across the Atlantic toward New York.
• 1932 Bertolt Brecht's epic play The Holy Joan of the Slaughterhouse is broadcast as a premiere in its radio version by Berlin Radio.
• 1945 American troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp, in which resistance groups have already formed. On the same day, Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen is also liberated.
• 1961 In Israel, the trial begins of the former SS-Obersturmbannführer and department head in the Reich Security Main Office, Adolf Eichmann, who had previously been abducted from Argentina.
• 1968 Rudi Dutschke, one of the leading figures of the German student movement, is critically injured by three shots fired by the laborer Josef Bachmann.
• 1983 At the Academy Awards, Richard Attenborough's feature film Gandhi is honored eight times, including as Best Picture. Ben Kingsley receives the Oscar for Best Actor.
• 1996 In the late afternoon, a fire breaks out at Düsseldorf Airport. 17 people die and 88 others are injured.
• 2002 In Tunisia, the attack on the Al-Ghriba Synagogue on Djerba is carried out, killing 21 people. In June, al-Qaida claims responsibility for the attack.
• 2017 In the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus, three explosive devices are detonated as the BVB football team sets off by bus for the Westfalenstadion. As a result of the explosion, a police officer and BVB player Marc Bartra are injured. The match is consequently postponed until the following day.

Born on April 11

• 1900 Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer
• 1911 Leopold Hawelka, Austrian founder of Café Hawelka
• 1920 René Carol, German pop singer, actor and entertainer
• 1920 Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer
• 1930 Isolde Schmitt-Menzel, German designer, author, illustrator, graphic designer and ceramicist
• 1953 Udo Schenk, German actor, dubbing actor and audiobook narrator
• 1960 Jeremy Clarkson, British presenter
• 1971 Oliver Riedel, German musician
• 1981 Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
• 2000 Milly Alcock, Australian actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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