On This Day:
Saturday April 11, 2015 This is the 101st day of the year, with 264 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: sandwich names The po' boy or hero sandwich evolved in the 19th century. In New York city it is a hero or hero sandwich. It is also a grinder, especially in Boston and other areas of New England; a spuckie in the Italian section of Boston; a hoagie (possibly from hog), especially in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey; a zep (possibly a clipping of zeppelin) in New Jersey; a bomber in upstate New York; an Italian or Italian sandwich in Maine and parts of the southern Midwest; a sub or submarine, for its shape, now generalized; a torpedo in parts of New Jersey; a wedge or wedgie in downstate New York and Connecticut and Rhode Island; and a Cuban sandwich in Miami and Tampa, Florida. The name comes from the workout one's teeth get when eating it.
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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