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What Happened on April 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
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 allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser.
2018	An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
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.
2011	An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2007	Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2006	Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
2002	The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002	Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
2001	The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
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.
1990	Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1987	The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
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.
1981	A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1979	Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1977	London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
1976	The Apple I is created.
1970	Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.
1968	President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1968	Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
1965	The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1964	Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
1963	Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
1961	The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1957	United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1955	The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1952	Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
1951	Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
1951	The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1945	World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1935	Stresa Front: opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
1921	Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1909	The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1908	SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
1881	Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1876	The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1868	Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1856	Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1814	The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1809	Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane, leading to an incomplete British victory over the French fleet.
1727	Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany).
1713	France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). Britain accepts Philip V as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne.
1689	William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain[5] on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February.
1544	Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.
1512	War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.
1241	Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
491	Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

Famous People Born on April 11

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Year	Name
1969	Michael von Grünigen, Swiss skier
1913	Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1963	Waldemar Fornalik, Polish footballer and manager
1918	Richard Wainwright, English soldier and politician (d. 2003)
1873	Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1955)
1947	Lev Bulat, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (d. 2016)
1937	Jill Gascoine, English actress and author (d. 2020)
1749	Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French miniaturist and portrait painter (d. 1803)
1938	Gerry Baker, American soccer player and manager (d. 2013)
1941	Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)

Famous People Deaths On April 11

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 11. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2017	J. Geils, American singer and guitarist (b. 1946)
1981	Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (b. 1895)
2000	Diana Darvey, English actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
1997	Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (b. 1899)
2009	Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress and singer (b. 1914)
1240	Llywelyn the Great, Welsh prince (b. 1172)
1895	Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (b. 1830)
1077	Anawrahta, king of Burma and founder of the Pagan Empire (b. 1014)
618	Yang Guang, Chinese emperor of the Sui Dynasty (b. 569)
1512	Gaston de Foix, French military commander (b. 1489)