On This Day for April 11 - Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau, Charles Evans Hughes is featured, and more

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April 11

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Charles Evans Hughes

Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David, 1812; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

FEATURED EVENT

1814

Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2013: Maria Tallchief, whose exquisite technique made her one of the greatest ballerinas in the United States, died at age 88. [Sort fact from fiction in our ballet quiz.]

2007: American author Kurt Vonnegut, who was noted for such wryly satirical novels as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), died. [Take our famous authors quiz.]

1979: Ugandan President Idi Amin, whose brutality earned him the nickname “Butcher of Uganda,” fled the country as Tanzanian-led forces neared Kampala. [Do you know what jobs these African leaders had before entering politics?]

1961: The trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem; eight months later it ended with the only death sentence ever imposed by an Israeli court. [ Test your knowledge of Adolf Hitler's right-hand men and other Nazi officials.]

1953: Mathematician Andrew John Wiles, deviser of a proof of Fermat's last theorem, was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. [Take our mathematics quiz.]

1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command of United Nations and U.S. forces during the Korean War. [ Test your knowledge of some of the greatest moments in military history.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1930

Anton LaVey
American author

145

Septimius Severus
Roman emperor

1953

Andrew Wiles
British mathematician

1869

Kasturba Gandhi
Indian political activist

1862

Charles Evans Hughes
United States jurist and statesman