On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Army troops liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.

In 1951, President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command following multiple public statements by MacArthur that contradicted official U.S. policies.

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Indian Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act, one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

In 2012, George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. (He was acquitted at trial.)