Monday, April 11

AP Worldstream | April 4, 2005| | Copyright

The Associated Press
AP Worldstream
04-04-2005
Today is Monday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2005. There are 263 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1564 - Peace of Troyes ends war between England and France.

1805 - Britain and Russia, by Treaty of St. Petersburg, agree to form a European league for liberation of German states, the Third Coalition against France.

1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally as emperor of France and is banished to Elba by Treaty of Fontainebleau.

1843 - Britain separates Gambia from Sierra Leone as crown colony.

1894 - Uganda is declared ...

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