On This Day — 11 April

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

1979

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

Uganda

1977

London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.

London Transport Executive (GLC)

1976

The Apple I is created.

Apple I

1970

Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.

Apollo program

1968

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1968

A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement, leaves Dutschke suffering from brain damage.

Rudi Dutschke

1965

The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.

1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak

1964

Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

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.

Pope John XXIII

1961

The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

Adolf Eichmann

1957

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

Singapore

1955

The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

Air India

1952

Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.

Bolivian National Revolution

1952

Pan Am Flight 526A ditches near San Juan-Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.

Pan Am Flight 526A

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.

Stone of Scone

1945

World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

World War II

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.

Stresa Front

1921

Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

Emir

1909

The city of Tel Aviv is founded.

Tel Aviv

1908

SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.

SMS Blücher

1885

Luton Town F.C. is founded.

Luton Town F.C.

1881

Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

Spelman College

1876

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

1868

Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Shogun

1856

Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.

Second Battle of Rivas

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.

Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)

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.

Battle of the Basque Roads

1727

Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany).

Johann Sebastian Bach

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.

Peace of Utrecht

1689

William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February.

William III of England

1544

Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.

Italian War of 1542–1546

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.

War of the League of Cambrai

1241

Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.

Batu Khan

672

Consecration of Pope Adeodatus II following the death of Pope Vitalian.

Pope Adeodatus II

491

Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

List of Byzantine emperors