April 11th Events |
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| April 11th, 2007 (April 11 2007) | Event | 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others. | |
| April 11th, 2006 (April 11 2006) | Event | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. | |
| April 11th, 2002 (April 11 2002) | Event | The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. | |
| April 11th, 2002 (April 11 2002) | Event | An attempted coup d etat in Venezuela against President Hugo Chavez takes place. | |
| April 11th, 2001 (April 11 2001) | Event | The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People s Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released. | |
| April 11th, 2000 (April 11 2000) | Event | AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open. | |
| April 11th, 1990 (April 11 1990) | Event | Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. | Tom Ze Quotes |
| April 11th, 1987 (April 11 1987) | Event | The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. | Shimon Peres Quotes |
| April 11th, 1981 (April 11 1981) | Event | A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. | |
| April 11th, 1981 (April 11 1981) | Event | President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| April 11th, 1979 (April 11 1979) | Event | Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. | Idi Amin Quotes |
| April 11th, 1976 (April 11 1976) | Event | The Apple I is created. | |
| April 11th, 1970 (April 11 1970) | Event | Apollo 13 is launched. | |
| April 11th, 1968 (April 11 1968) | Event | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| April 11th, 1968 (April 11 1968) | Event | German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin. | |
| April 11th, 1965 (April 11 1965) | Event | The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. | |
| April 11th, 1961 (April 11 1961) | Event | The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. | Adolf Eichmann Quotes |
| April 11th, 1957 (April 11 1957) | Event | Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule. | |
| April 11th, 1955 (April 11 1955) | Event | The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. | |
| April 11th, 1952 (April 11 1952) | Event | The Battle of Nanri island takes place. | |
| April 11th, 1951 (April 11 1951) | Event | Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| April 11th, 1951 (April 11 1951) | Event | 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. | |
| April 11th, 1945 (April 11 1945) | Event | World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. | |
| April 11th, 1921 (April 11 1921) | Event | First sports broadcast on the radio takes place. | |
| April 11th, 1921 (April 11 1921) | Event | The Emirate of Transjordan is created. | |
| April 11th, 1921 (April 11 1921) | Event | Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax. | |
| April 11th, 1919 (April 11 1919) | Event | The International Labour Organization is founded. | |
| April 11th, 1905 (April 11 1905) | Event | Albert Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity). | Albert Einstein Quotes |
| April 11th, 1899 (April 11 1899) | Event | Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. | |
| April 11th, 1888 (April 11 1888) | Event | The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. | |
| April 11th, 1876 (April 11 1876) | Event | The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. | |
| April 11th, 1868 (April 11 1868) | Event | The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. | |
| April 11th, 1865 (April 11 1865) | Event | President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| April 11th, 1856 (April 11 1856) | Event | In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker s filibusters are holed up. | |
| April 11th, 1828 (April 11 1828) | Event | Foundation of Bahia Blanca. | |
| April 11th, 1775 (April 11 1775) | Event | The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place. | |
| April 11th, 1713 (April 11 1713) | Event | War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne s War): Treaty of Utrecht. | |
| April 11th, 1689 (April 11 1689) | Event | William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain. | |
| April 11th, 1512 (April 11 1512) | Event | War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna. | |
| April 11th, 1241 (April 11 1241) | Event | Batu Khan defeats Bela IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi. | |
| April 11th, 1079 (April 11 1079) | Event | Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Boleslaw II of Poland. | |
| April 11th, 0491 (April 11 0491) | Event | Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. | |
