Daily Calendar for Saturday, April 11, 2026

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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (German astronomer) – 1875
James A. Bailey (circus showman) – 1906
Luther Burbank (botanist and horticulturist; died in Santa Rosa, California) – 1926
Erskine Caldwell (author) – 1987
June Pointer (youngest of the singing group The Pointer Sisters) – 2006
Roscoe Lee Browne (actor) – 2007
Kurt Vonnegut (author) – 2007
Jonathan Winters (actor) – 2013

Oleg Cassini (fashion designer who created the Jackie look, the signature wardrobe created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the early 1960s) – 1913
Bill Irwin (actor) – 1950
Jason Varitek (baseball player) – 1972
Jennifer Esposito (actress) – 1973
Trot Nixon (baseball player) – 1974
Joss Stone (singer) – 1987

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 – 1865
U.S. Navy bought its first commissioned submarine, USS Holland – 1900
Geneva, Switzerland, was chosen as the headquarters of the League of Nations – 1919
Construction on the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world at the time, was completed in New York City. – 1931
Jackie Robinson became the first African-American major league baseball player – 1947
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 – 1968
Apollo 13 was launched, manned by astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise – 1970
Rattlesnake bit a shopper in tree section of home improvement store – 2004