Historical Events In April - 11

1981  On April - 11 ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him   

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

1981  On April - 11 marie Ney, dies at 85   

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 this day in history challenger astronauts complete first in space satellite repair   

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

1985  On April - 11 enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76   

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 April - 11.   

1988  David Prater, US singer (Sam & Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50 on April - 11.   

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

1989  On this day in history 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  On April - 11 barbara Ann Miller, dies   

1991  On this day in history ottawa to give $15 million compensation to families of victims of 1985 Air India Flight 182 disaster   

1991  Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands on this day in history.   

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

1991  On April - 11 tom Rosqui, dies at 62   

1992  Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83 on this day in history.   

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

1994  On this day in history johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64   

1996  On this day in history daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80   

1997  On this day in history 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 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  On April - 11 the European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.   

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 April - 11.   

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 April - 11.   

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  On this day in history birth of frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony   

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  Pietro Della Valle, composer was born on April - 11.   

1602  On April - 11 birth of johann Neukrantz, composer   

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

1661  Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet was born on April - 11.   

0678  On April - 11 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  Death of Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns on April - 11.   

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

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

1612  On April - 11 death of edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)   

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