Daily Calendar for April 11th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1860s

• 1865: President Lincoln made his last public speech. He gave the speech at the White House and spoke of the reconstruction of the south, in particular Louisiana

1870s

• Died 1875: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (German astronomer)

1900s

• 1900: U.S. Navy bought its first commissioned submarine, USS Holland

• Died 1906: James A. Bailey (circus showman)

1910s

• Born 1913: Oleg Cassini (fashion designer who created the "Jackie look," the signature wardrobe created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the early 1960s)

• 1919: Geneva, Switzerland, was chosen as the headquarters of the League of Nations

1920s

• Died 1926: Luther Burbank (horticulturist)

1960s

• 1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968

1970s

• 1970: Apollo 13 was launched, manned by astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise

• Born 1972: Jason Varitek (baseball player)

• Born 1973: Jennifer Esposito (actress)

• Born 1974: Trot Nixon (baseball player)

1980s

• Born 1987: Joss Stone (singer)

• Died 1987: Erskine Caldwell (author)

2000s

• 2004: Rattlesnake bit a shopper in tree section of home improvement store

• Died 2006: June Pointer (youngest of the singing group The Pointer Sisters)

• Died 2007: Kurt Vonnegut (author)

• Died 2007: Roscoe Lee Browne (actor)

2010s

• Died 2013: Jonathan Winters (actor)