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April 2011 in History

Events in History

  • Apr 1 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
  • Apr 9 Gunman murders five people, injures eleven, and commits suicide in a mall in the Netherlands
  • Apr 11 Minsk Metro bombing in Belarus kills at least 15 and injures over 200
  • Apr 15 "Black Friday" for online poker in the US: indictment United States v. Scheinberg shuts down sites, accusing companies of fraud and money laundering

Event of Interest

Apr 19 Fidel Castro resigns his position of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title [1]

Fidel Castro
Cuban Revolutionary and President Fidel Castro
  • Apr 23 Zach Daniels defeated Rick Michaels to become the new TNT Heavyweight Champion.
  • Apr 25 At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
  • Apr 27 Deadliest day of the 2011 super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history

Event of Interest

Apr 27 U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate

Barack Obama
44th US President Barack Obama

Weddings in History

Kate Middleton & Prince William

Apr 29 Royal wedding of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton held at Westminister Abbey, London

Kate Middleton
Prince William

Deaths in History

  • Apr 5 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, (1976 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, for work on Hepatitis B), dies at 85
  • Apr 6 Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani Sindhi scholar (compiled first Sindhi-English dictionary), dies at 93 [1]
  • Apr 7 Duke of Grafton, 11th Duke of Grafton, British peer, dies at 92
  • Apr 8 Hedda Sterne, Romanian born American artist, dies at 100
  • Apr 14 Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
  • Apr 14 William Lipscomb, American chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry (Nobel 1976), dies at 91
  • Apr 15 Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist, dies at 36
  • Apr 16 Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Saskatchewan), dies at 85
  • Apr 16 Bijan, Iranian men's apparel designer (Bijan), dies of stroke at 71
  • Apr 16 Harold Volkmer, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri, dies at 80
  • Apr 16 William A. Rusher, American lawyer and columnist, dies at 87
  • Apr 18 William Donald Schaefer, American politician (Gov-D-Md), dies at 89
  • Apr 20 Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
  • Apr 20 Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970)
  • Apr 20 Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer, dies at 92
  • Apr 23 Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, dies at 89
  • Apr 23 Max van der Stoel, Dutch politician & Minister of Foreign Affairs (PvdA), dies at 86
  • Apr 24 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru, spiritual figure, dies at 84
  • Apr 30 Dorjee Khandu, Indian, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1955)
  • Apr 30 Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer (Sábato Report), dies at 99

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