On This Day:
Friday April 11, 2014 This is the 101st day of the year, with 264 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: air pollution Air pollution involves the release of gases - either finely divided solids or finely dispersed liquid aerosols - into the atmosphere at rates that exceed the atmosphere's capacity to dissipate or dispose of them. Air pollution results from a variety of causes, not all of which are within human control: dust storms in desert areas, for example, and smoke from forest and grass fires, also contribute to air pollution. The discovery of pesticides in Antarctica, where they have never been used, suggests the extent to which aerial transport can carry pollutants from one place to another. Probably the most important natural source of air pollution is volcanic activity, which at times pours great amounts of ash and toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Exhaust fumes from motor vehicles contain a number of polluting substances, including carbon monoxide and a variety of complex hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and other compounds. There is also a great deal of air pollution from industry and from the burning of trash and debris.
Holidays Feast day of St. Guthlac, St. Stanislas, St. Godeberta, St. Barsanuphius, St. Gemma Galgani, St. Isaac of Spoleto, and St. Stanislaus of Cracow.
Uganda: Liberation Day.
Events 1713 - The War of the Spanish Succession ended with the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht; France ceded Newfoundland and Gibraltar to Britain.
1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba.
1900 - The U.S. Navy acquired its first submarine, a 53-foot craft designed by Irish immigrant John P. Holland.
1921 - Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
1945 - Allied troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weiner, Germany.
1951 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his command in Korea, after a disagreement with President Harry Truman.
1968 - One week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
1979 - Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as Tanzanian forces and the Uganda National Liberation Front seized control.
Births 1755 - James Parkinson, English physician who discovered Parkinson's disease.
1864 - Lillie P. Bliss, co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
1893 - Dean Acheson, advised four U.S. presidents as Secretary of State.
Deaths 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist.
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist.
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