Page 7: Historical Events In April - 11

1981  Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him on April - 11.   

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

1981  On this day in history marie Ney, dies at 85   

1983  On this day in history 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  On April - 11 challenger astronauts complete first in space satellite repair   

1984  Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth on April - 11.   

1985  Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1986  Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km on this day in history.   

1986  In New York City a Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22,000 at auction on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1989  On April - 11 henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68   

1990  Harold Ballard dies at age 86; President of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1961 on April - 11.   

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 this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands   

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  On this day in history adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83   

1993  Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered on April - 11.   

1994  Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64 on April - 11.   

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

1997  On April - 11 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   

1997  Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52 on this day in history.   

2006  President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium on April - 11.   

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

2007  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 on April - 11.   

2008  Merlin German, United States Marine on this day in history.   

2011  On April - 11 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.   

2011  On April - 11 minsk Metro bombing   

2012  8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia on this day in history.   

2013  On April - 11 14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico   

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0146  Septimius Severus (d. 211) was born on April - 11.   

1370  Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony was born on April - 11.   

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

1492  On April - 11 birth of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)   

1586  On this day in history birth of pietro Della Valle, composer   

1602  On this day in history birth of johann Neukrantz, composer   

1638  On this day in history birth of diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer   

1661  Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet was born on this day in history.   

0678  On this day in history donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies   

1034  Death of Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife on this day in history.   

1240  Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies on April - 11.   

1500  On this day in history death of michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns   

1512  On this day in history gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle   

1554  On this day in history death of thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)   

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

1626  On April - 11 death of marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)