Template:Selected anniversaries/April 11
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1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel "stay out of Dutch waters."
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant blamed for wave of scrimshaw abuse.
1914: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
1955: The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai.
1962: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya dies.