Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 11

April 11:

Hashemite Coat of Arms

• 1241 - Mongols led by Batu Khan and Subutai crushed the Hungarian army of King Béla IV.
• 1921 - The Hashemite Emirate of Transjordan, now Jordan, was established.
• 1945 - World War II: The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated.
• 1951 - Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
• 1965 - Fifty-one tornadoes struck six Midwestern states in the United States during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.

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