Daily Archives: April 11, 2012

Angry JFK rips steel leaders for price boost 50 years ago this hour (1962)

1960s, U.S. Presidents

(Wednesday, Apr. 11, 1962, 3:30 p.m. EST) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy bluntly denounced the major steel companies today for “a wholly unjustifiable and irresponsible defiance of the public interest” in raising their prices by $6 a ton. Continue reading Angry JFK rips steel leaders for price boost 50 years ago this hour (1962) →

India rejects British offer of dominion status 70 years ago today (1942)

1940s


Video: India rejects dominion status offer (at :35)

(Saturday, April 11, 1942) — Dominant Hindu and Moslem (Muslim) parties today rejected Britain’s offer of dominion status after the war and Sir Stafford Cripps, special emissary of the British war cabinet, announced the proposal he had bought from London had been withdrawn.

Grant removed from field command for costly victory at Shiloh 150 years ago today (1862)

1860s, American Civil War

Video: April 11, 1862 (at 47:45)

(Friday, April 11, 1862, during the American Civil War) — U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was removed from field command today by Gen. Henry W. Halleck after the frightful losses (including nearly 3,500 deaths) in the victory of the Battle of Shiloh.

Henry Adams warns of apocalyptic war 150 years ago today (1862)

1860s, American Civil War

(Friday, April 11, 1862, during the American Civil War) — In a letter to his brother Charles Francis Adams Jr., in London, journalist, historian, academic and novelist Henry Brooks Adams wrote today: “Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.”