April 11

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April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years).

1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.

1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.

1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing debut in New York City.

1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.

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1713 - With the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, ending the War of the Spanish Succession, France ceded Newfoundland and Gibraltar to Britain.

1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte gets a forced vacation on the island of Elba.

1900 - John P. Holland's 53-foot craft becomes he U.S. Navy's first submarine.

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