April 11th

Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution.

Charges were dropped against three former Duke University lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape.

Iran announced that it had enriched uranium on a small scale for the first time.

American troops took the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without a fight.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from businessmen and his own staff.

Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control of the capital, Kampala.

The first episode of I'm sorry I haven't a clue is aired. The BBC's classic comedy show, which was chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton until his death in 2008, is one of the longest running British radio shows of all time.

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act.

The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins. The ex-Nazi was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, in which millions of people were slaughtered. He was hanged for war crimes in 1962.

President Harry S. Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his command in the Far East.

American soldiers liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.

The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect.

President William McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war against Spain.

The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.

Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba.

Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War.

William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

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