Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
It lifted off on April 11, 1970, as a routine third Moon landing — then an oxygen tank blew, and the mission became a rescue.
On April 11, 1961, a glass booth in Jerusalem held the SS officer who organized the Holocaust's deportations—and an audience of millions watched.
On April 11, 1814, the Treaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of an empire and handed him a single Mediterranean island to rule.
