Historical Events In April - 11

1981  On this day in history ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him  

1981  Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen on April - 11.  

1981  Marie Ney, dies at 85 on April - 11.  

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 April - 11.  

1984  On April - 11 challenger astronauts complete first in space satellite repair  

1984  On April - 11 soyuz T-11 returns to Earth  

1985  Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 on April - 11.  

1986  On April - 11 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 this day in history.  

1987  Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 on this day in history.  

1988  On April - 11 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 April - 11.  

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 this day in history.  

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  UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration on April - 11.  

1991  Tom Rosqui, dies at 62 on April - 11.  

1992  Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83 on April - 11.  

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 this day in history.  

1996  On April - 11 daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80  

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 this day in history.  

1997  Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52 on April - 11.  

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

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  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 this day in history.  

2011  Minsk Metro bombing on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1370  Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony was born on this day in history.  

1374  Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398) was born on April - 11.  

1492  Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549) was born on this day in history.  

1586  On April - 11 birth of pietro Della Valle, composer  

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

1638  Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer was born on this day in history.  

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  On April - 11 death of romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife  

1240  Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies on this day in history.  

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

1512  Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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