11 April
Notable Births
Jack Hinshelwood
b. 2005
English footballer
Danielle Marsh
b. 2005
Australian and South Korean singer (born 2005)
Jake Fraser-McGurk
b. 2002
Australian cricketer (born 2002)
Manuel Ugarte (footballer)
b. 2001
Uruguayan footballer (born 2001)
Milly Alcock
b. 2000
Australian actress (born 2000)
Loïc Badé
b. 2000
French footballer (born 2000)
Ken Carson
b. 2000
American rapper (born 2000)
Karina (South Korean singer)
b. 2000
South Korean singer and rapper (born 2000)
Summer Walker
b. 1996
American singer (born 1996)
Dele Alli
b. 1996
English footballer (born 1996)
Brandon Montour
b. 1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Florin Andone
b. 1993
Romanian footballer (born 1993)
Thiago Alcântara
b. 1991
Spain international footballer (born 1991)
Cédric Bakambu
b. 1991
Footballer (born 1991)
Joss Stone
b. 1987
English singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1987)
Mark Teixeira
b. 1980
American baseball player and politician (born 1980)
Jason Varitek
b. 1972
American baseball player (born 1972)
Trevor Linden
b. 1970
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1970)
Jeremy Clarkson
b. 1960
English television presenter, journalist and author (born 1960)
Percy Lavon Julian
b. 1899
American research chemist (1899–1975)
Notable Deaths
Mike Berry (singer)
d. 2025
British singer (1942–2025)
Park Bo-ram
d. 2024
South Korean singer (1994–2024)
John Horton Conway
d. 2020
English mathematician (1937–2020)
J. Geils
d. 2017
American guitarist (1946–2017)
Jimmy Gunn
d. 2015
American football player (1948–2015)
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman
d. 2015
Bangladeshi politician and journalist (1952–2015)
François Maspero
d. 2015
French author and journalist
Rolf Brem
d. 2014
Edna Doré
d. 2014
British actress
Bill Henry (baseball, born 1927)
d. 2014
American baseball player (1927–2014)
Sergey Nepobedimy
d. 2014
Russian engineer (1921–2014)
Jesse Winchester
d. 2014
American-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (1944–2014)
Sue Draheim
d. 2013
American fiddler (1949–2013)
Grady Hatton
d. 2013
American baseball player and manager (1922–2013)
Hilary Koprowski
d. 2013
Polish virologist and immuologist (1916–2013)
Gilles Marchal
d. 2013
French singer and songwriter (1944–2013)
Maria Tallchief
d. 2013
Native American ballerina (1925–2013)
Clorindo Testa
d. 2013
Italian-Argentine architect
Jonathan Winters
d. 2013
American comedian, actor and artist (1925–2013)
Otto Wagner
d. 1918
Austrian architect (1841–1918)
On This Day in History
All 56 ›2023
During the Pazigyi massacre, an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force kills at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi, Sagaing Region.
Pazigyi massacre
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 mistakes her pistol for her taser.
Killing of Daunte Wright
2018
An Ilyushin Il-76 owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
Ilyushin Il-76
2017
The tour bus of the German football team Borussia Dortmund is attacked with roadside bombs in Dortmund, Germany. Three bombs exploded as the bus ferried the team to the Westfalenstadion for the first leg of their quarter-final against Monaco.
Borussia Dortmund
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.
2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes
2011
An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus, kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2011 Minsk Metro bombing
2008
Kata Air Transport Flight 007 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Chișinău International Airport, killing eight.
Kata Air Transport Flight 007
2007
Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2007 Algiers Government Palace bombings
2006
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
President of Iran
2002
The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
Ghriba synagogue bombing
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.
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt
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.
Lockheed EP-3
2001
The Australia national men's soccer team sets a world record for the largest victory in an international association football match, winning the game 31–0 against American Samoa at the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for OFC. Australia's Archie Thompson also breaks the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by scoring 13 goals.
Australia men's national soccer team
1993
Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue 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.
Prison riot
1993
Guillem Agulló, pro-Catalan independence and anti-fascist Valencian young activist, is assassinated by a group of Spanish nationalists and neo-nazis in Montanejos.
Guillem Agulló i Salvador
1990
Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
Middlesbrough
1987
The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
Peres–Hussein London Agreement
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 are killed, while five other agents are wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
1986 FBI Miami shootout
1982
American-Israeli reservist Alan Harry Goodman carries out a mass shooting at the Dome of the Rock, killing two Palestinians and injuring at least seven others.
1982 Dome of the Rock shooting
1981
A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1981 Brixton riot