FRIDAY, April 11, 2025

1783-Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War after the Continental Congress proclaims the "Cessation of Arms" against His Britannic Majesty 1814-Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean

1868-The Shogunate is abolished in Japan

1955-Chartered Air India plane the "Kashmir Princess" is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent

1968-U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act

1979-Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya

2015-Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the first meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution