Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, April 11, the 101st day of 2007. There are 264 days left in the year.

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In 1945, US soldiers liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

In 1968, US president Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon. (The astronauts managed to return safely).

In 2001, ending a tense 11-day standoff, China agreed to free the 24 crew members of an American spy plane.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and colour, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.” — US Sen. George Aiken, a Republican, Vermont (1892-1984).