The negrita tulips are starting to open and evade accurate color capture. It's purple.

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Things are looking up even if the daffodils are looking down.

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April 11

This day in history:

• 2021 – Twenty year old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer mistakes her pistol for her taser.
• 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
• 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
• 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

Births:

• 1964 – Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player and coach
• 1755 – James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1824)
• 1991 – Thiago Alcântara, Spanish footballer

Deaths:

• 2006 – DeShaun Holton, American rapper and actor (b. 1973)
• 2020 – John Horton Conway, English mathematician (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Loïc Leferme, French diver (b. 1970)

Holidays:

• Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Second Battle of Rivas. (Costa Rica)
• International Louie Louie Day
• World Parkinson's Day

Random Article of the day:

Vaucluse

Vaucluse (French: [voklyz]; Provençal: Vauclusa (Classical norm) or Vau-Cluso (Mistralian norm)) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019. The department's prefecture is Avignon.
It is named after a spring, the Fontaine de Vaucluse, one of the largest karst springs in the world. The name Vaucluse itself derives from the Latin Vallis Clausa ("closed valley") as the valley ends in a cliff face from which the spring emanates.

Affaire tulips.

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Honey bee and plum blossoms.

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Honey bee and a peach blossom.

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April 11

This day in history:

• 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
• 1968 – A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement, leaves Dutschke suffering from brain damage.
• 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.
• 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

Births:

• 1941 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Col Firmin, Australian politician (d. 2013)
• 1591 – Bartholomeus Strobel, Silezian painter (d. 1650)

Deaths:

• 2013 – Gilles Marchal, French singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1626 – Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan mathematician and physicist (b. 1568)
• 2014 – Bill Henry, American baseball player (b. 1927)

Holidays:

• World Parkinson's Day
• International Louie Louie Day
• Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Second Battle of Rivas. (Costa Rica)

Random Article of the day:

Begonia bowerae

Begonia bowerae, the eyelash begonia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Begoniaceae, native to Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico. A popular houseplant, a number of cultivars are available.