Historical Events In April - 11

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

1981  On April - 11 valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen  

1981  On April - 11 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 April - 11.  

1984  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1986  Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km on April - 11.  

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

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1987  On this day in history erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83  

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 April - 11.  

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

1991  On April - 11 uN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration  

1991  Tom Rosqui, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1996  On this day in history 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  On April - 11 michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52  

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

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

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  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 April - 11.  

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

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

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0146  On April - 11 birth of septimius Severus (d. 211)  

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

1374  Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398) was born on this day in history.  

1492  Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549) was born on April - 11.  

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

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

1638  On April - 11 birth of diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer  

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

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 this day in history.  

1240  On this day in history llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies  

1500  On April - 11 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 this day in history.  

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