Historical Events In April - 11

1981  On April - 11 ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him  

1981  Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen on this day in history.  

1981  Marie Ney, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1983  On April - 11 statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate in March of 13.6% or 1,658,000 unemployed; a new record.  

1983  Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

1984  Challenger astronauts complete first in space satellite repair on this day in history.  

1984  On this day in history soyuz T-11 returns to Earth  

1985  On this day in history enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76  

1986  On this day in history halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km  

1986  In New York City a Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22,000 at auction on April - 11.  

1987  Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 on April - 11.  

1988  On this day in history david Prater, US singer (Sam & Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50  

1989  Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Ron Hextall scores short-handed into an empty net on this day in history.  

1989  Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1990  Harold Ballard dies at age 86; President of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1961 on this day in history.  

1990  Barbara Ann Miller, dies on April - 11.  

1991  Ottawa to give $15 million compensation to families of victims of 1985 Air India Flight 182 disaster on April - 11.  

1991  Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands on April - 11.  

1991  On this day in history uN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration  

1991  On April - 11 tom Rosqui, dies at 62  

1992  Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83 on this day in history.  

1993  On this day in history mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered  

1994  On this day in history johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64  

1996  Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80 on April - 11.  

1997  In Southern Xinjiang, China a 6.2 earthquake occurred, at least 9 people killed, 89 injured, 100,000 homeless, thousands of buildings destroyed and 11,000 livestock killed in Jiashi County on April - 11.  

1997  On this day in history michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52  

2006  On this day in history president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.  

2006  On this day in history the European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.  

2007  On April - 11 al Qaeda claims responsibility for two bomb blasts in the Algerian capital of Algiers. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.  

2008  On April - 11 merlin German, United States Marine  

2011  Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara with support from French forces thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war on April - 11.  

2011  Minsk Metro bombing on this day in history.  

2012  On April - 11 8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia  

2013  14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico on this day in history.  

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0146  On this day in history birth of septimius Severus (d. 211)  

1370  On this day in history birth of frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony  

1374  On April - 11 birth of roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)  

1492  On this day in history birth of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)  

1586  Pietro Della Valle, composer was born on this day in history.  

1602  Johann Neukrantz, composer was born on this day in history.  

1638  Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer was born on April - 11.  

1661  On this day in history birth of antoine Coypel, French painter/poet  

0678  Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies on this day in history.  

1034  Death of Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife on April - 11.  

1240  On April - 11 llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies  

1500  Death of Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns on this day in history.  

1512  Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle on April - 11.  

1554  Death of Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521) on April - 11.  

1612  Death of Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566) on April - 11.  

1626  On this day in history death of marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)