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Local history
50 years ago: April 11, 1973
The Altoona Redevelopment Authority gave approval for the Altoona Area School District to sell eight acres of land for $289,260 at 17th to 14th Streets and Eighth and Ninth Avenues to a company called Crossgates Inc. for a housing complex.
25 years ago: April 11, 1998
U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster campaign manager and aide Ann Eppard was charged with financial improprieties associated with a Boston project called "The Big Dig" and also embezzlement. Many local residents throught the charges were politically motivated.
10 years ago: April 11, 2013
Judith Meisel, a Holocaust survivor of two concentration camps and born in Lithuania, spoke to students at Bishop Carroll High School and showed a film about prisoners of the German Nazi's in World War II.
World history
Today is the 101st day of 2023. There are 264 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
On this date:
In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in March 1815, until his downfall in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.)
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, "We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart." (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)