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Did you know ...

Tombstones in the churchyard
of St Thomas à Becket, Box

• ... that the churchyard of the Church of St Thomas à Becket in Box, Wiltshire, includes a pyramidical tombstone (pictured, right) said to have been contrived to prevent the deceased's wife from dancing on his grave?
• ... that in the song "12.38", Childish Gambino sings about a psilocybin trip while 21 Savage raps about police harassment?
• ... that Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma was nicknamed the "Red Princess" because of her socialist activism?
• ... that despite winning the First Battle of Newtonia, the Confederate army retreated from Missouri?
• ... that the tree Barteria fistulosa is associated with Tetraponera aethiops, an aggressive species of ant that lives in its hollow branches and twigs?
• ... that in a 2014 case, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a group of police officers acted reasonably when they fired fifteen shots to end a high-speed car chase?
• ... that boxer Johnny Owen was so dedicated to his career that he never drank alcohol nor dated?
• ... that Britons are being urged to clap for their carers every Thursday evening during COVID-19 pandemic?

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Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic

• In Zamfara, Nigeria, 279 girls who had been kidnapped from a secondary school by armed bandits are released.
• In tennis, Naomi Osaka wins the women's singles and Novak Djokovic wins the men's singles at the Australian Open (both winners pictured).
• Porfirije is enthroned as the 46th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
• NASA's Perseverance rover, carrying the Ingenuity helicopter, successfully lands on Mars.

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• Helmut Winschermann
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On this day

April 11: Divine Mercy Sunday (Catholicism, Anglicanism; 2021)

Nevill Ground's cricket pavilion after the arson attack

• 1241 – Mongol invasion of Europe: Mongol forces led by Batu Khan and Subutai defeated the army of King Béla IV at the Battle of Mohi near the river Sajó, a key victory in their first invasion of Hungary.
• 1713 – The main treaties of the Peace of Utrecht were signed in the city of Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, helping to bring an end to the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1913 – The cricket pavilion at the Nevill Ground was destroyed in an arson attack (damage pictured) that was attributed to militant suffragettes as part of a country-wide campaign co-ordinated by the Women's Social and Political Union.
• 1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: The allied forces of Tanzania and the Uganda National Liberation Front captured the capital Kampala, deposing Ugandan president Idi Amin.
• 1993 – Prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, Ohio, rioted and took over the prison for 11 days, resulting in the deaths of one officer and nine inmates.

• Stephen IV of Hungary (d. 1165)
• Ramadan ibn Alauddin (d. 1349)
• Edward Everett (b. 1794)
• Trevor Linden (b. 1970)

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