Editing April 11 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[491]] &ndash; Flavius Anastasius becomes [[Byzantine emperor]], with the name of [[Anastasius I Dicorus|Anastasius I]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Von einer Gesellschaft deutscher Gelehrten bearbeitet: Bd. 1-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FT9TlFkyAwC&pg=PA487|year=1832|publisher=Brüggemann|pages=487|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Kosiński|first=Rafał|title=Holiness and Power: Constantinopolitan Holy Men and Authority in the 5th Century|location=Berlin|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|date=2016|isbn=9783110417074|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZBlCwAAQBAJ|page=162}}</ref>
*[[1241]] &ndash; [[Batu Khan]] defeats [[Béla IV of Hungary]] at the [[Battle of Mohi]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bachrach|first=David S.|title=The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300|location=Farnham, Surrey, UK|publisher=Ashgate|date=2014|isbn=9781472436412|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Fw8BAAAQBAJ|page=88}}</ref>
*[[1512]] &ndash; [[War of the League of Cambrai]]: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by [[Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours|Gaston de Foix]] and [[Alfonso I d'Este]] win the [[Battle of Ravenna (1512)|Battle of Ravenna]] against the Papal-Spanish forces.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|chapter=Overview of 1500-1600: A Chronology|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. Volume 2: 1500-1774|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2010|isbn=9781851096671|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC|page=481}}</ref>
*[[1544]] &ndash; [[Italian War of 1542–46]]: A French army defeats [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] forces at the [[Battle of Ceresole]], but fails to exploit its victory.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|chapter=Overview of 1500-1600: A Chronology|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. Volume 2: 1500-1774|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2010|isbn=9781851096671|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC|pages=510–511}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[William III of England|William III]] and [[Mary II of England|Mary II]] are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain<ref>{{cite book|last=Bell|first=James B.|title=Anglicans, Dissenters and Radical Change in Early New England 1686-1786|location=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2017|isbn=9783319556291|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fng5DwAAQBAJ|page=33}}</ref> on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February.<ref>{{cite book|last=Panton|first=Kenneth J.|title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2011|isbn=9780810857797|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC|page=xxxiii}}</ref>
*[[1713]] &ndash; 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 of Spain|Philip V]] as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ghervas|first=Stella|chapter=In the Shadow of Utrecht: Perpetual Peace and International Order, 1713-1815|title=The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and Its Enduring Effects|editor-last=Soons|editor-first=Alfred H.A.|location=Boston|publisher=Brill|date=2020|isbn=9789004266407|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hm3DDwAAQBAJ|pages=204–205}}</ref>
*[[1727]] &ndash; Premiere of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s [[St Matthew Passion]] BWV 244b at [[St. Thomas Church, Leipzig|St. Thomas Church]] in [[Leipzig]], [[Electorate of Saxony]] (now Germany).<ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Richard Douglas|title=The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach: Music to Delight the Spirit. Volume 2: 1717-1750|location=Oxford, UK|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2013|isbn=9780198164401|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YwzAQAAQBAJ|page=181}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Basque Roads]]: Admiral [[James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier|Lord Gambier]] fails to support Captain [[Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald|Lord Cochrane]], leading to an incomplete British victory over the French fleet.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cordingly|first=David|title=Cochrane the Dauntless|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|date=2007|isbn=9780747580881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMdDpmTXdWsC|page=205|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Clowes|first=William Laird|title=The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to the Present. Volume V|location=London|publisher=S. Low, Marston and Co.|date=1900|oclc=1296915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iH9nAAAAMAAJ|pages=268–269|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Stewart|first=William|title=Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary: 1500 to the Present|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Co.|date=2009|isbn=9780786438099|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1VimlFIjQoC|page=139}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)|Treaty of Fontainebleau]] ends the [[War of the Sixth Coalition]] against [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Second Battle of Rivas]]: [[Juan Santamaría]] burns down the hostel where [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker]]'s [[filibuster (military)|filibusters]] are holed up.
*[[1868]] &ndash; Former ''[[shōgun]]'' [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] surrenders [[Edo Castle]] to Imperial forces, marking the end of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
*[[1876]] &ndash; The [[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks]] is organized.
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Spelman College]] is founded in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]] as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; {{SMS|Blücher}}, the last [[armored cruiser]] to be built by the [[Imperial German Navy]], is launched.
*[[1909]] &ndash; The city of [[Tel Aviv]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schlor |first1=Joachim |last2=Schlör |first2=Joachim |title=Tel Aviv: From Dream to City |year=1999 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-86189-033-7 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CpxkwO7hdVQC&pg=PA43 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Emir]] [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah]] establishes the first centralised government in the newly created [[British protectorate]] of [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]].
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://beyondthirtynine.com/11-14-april-1935-the-stresa-front-to-stop-adolf-hitler/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413050817/http://beyondthirtynine.com/11-14-april-1935-the-stresa-front-to-stop-adolf-hitler/ |archive-date=13 April 2015 |url-status=dead |title=11-14 April 1935. The Stresa Front to stop Adolf Hitler. |last=Paratico |first=Angelo |date=13 April 2015 |website=beyondthirtynine.com}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: American forces liberate the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Buchenwald {{!}} Definition, Location, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Buchenwald |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: President Truman [[Relief of Douglas MacArthur|relieves Douglas MacArthur]] of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
*  1951   &ndash; 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]].
*[[1952]] &ndash; [[Bolivian National Revolution]]: Rebels take over [[Palacio Quemado]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|date=13 November 2019|title=The 1952 Bolivian Revolution |website=[[International Workers League – Fourth International|IWL-FI]] |last=Sagra |first=Alicia |url=https://litci.org/en/the-1952-bolivian-revolution/ |access-date=26 February 2022 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127005758/https://litci.org/en/the-1952-bolivian-revolution/}}</ref>
*  1952   &ndash; [[Pan Am Flight 526A]] ditches near [[Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport|San Juan-Isla Grande Airport]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.<ref name="ASN2">{{Cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-4 N88899 San Juan-Isla Grande Airport (SIG) |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19520411-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013235651/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19520411-0 |archive-date=2012-10-13 |access-date= |website=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[Air India]] [[Kashmir Princess]] is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on [[Zhou Enlai]] by the [[Kuomintang]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; United Kingdom agrees to [[Singapore]]an [[Self-governance of Singapore|self-rule]].
*[[1961]] &ndash; The trial of [[Adolf Eichmann]] begins in [[Jerusalem]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1964]] &ndash; Brazilian Marshal [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]] is elected president by the [[National Congress of Brazil|National Congress]].
*[[1965]] &ndash; The [[Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965]]: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six [[Midwestern]] states of the United States, killing 266 people.<ref name="NWSNrnIndiana">{{cite web |author1=Blake Naftel |author2=Jon Chamberlain |author3=Becky Monroe |author4=Ed Lacey Jr. |author5=Dick Loney |title=April 11th 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak |url=https://www.weather.gov/iwx/1965_palmsunday_50 |website=Northern Indiana [[List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices|Weather Forecast Office]] |publisher=National Weather Service |access-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404011605/https://www.weather.gov/iwx/1965_palmsunday_50 |archive-date=4 April 2015 |location=[[Syracuse, Indiana]] |date=2015}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; US President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]], prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
*  1968   &ndash; A failed assassination attempt on [[Rudi Dutschke]], leader of the [[German student movement]], leaves Dutschke suffering from brain damage.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Karcher |first=Katharina |date=2021-11-01 |title=The pleasure and pain of passing as (dis)abled: Rudi Dutschke's exile in the UK (1968-1971) and the Ableism of the West German Student Movement |url=https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/the-pleasure-and-pain-of-passing-as-disabled-rudi-dutschkes-exile |journal=New German Critique |language=English |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=199–218 |doi=10.1215/0094033X-9305540 |s2cid=244302173 |issn=1558-1462}}</ref>
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Apollo Program]]: [[Apollo 13]] is launched.
*[[1976]] &ndash; The [[Apple I]] is created.<ref>{{cite web|title=And that's the way it was: April 11, 1976|website=Columbia Journalism Review|date=April 11, 2013|access-date=April 1, 2019|url=https://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_april_7.php}}</ref>
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[London Transport Executive (GLC)|London Transport's]] [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] [[AEC Routemaster]] buses are launched.
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Uganda]]n dictator [[Idi Amin]] is [[Fall of Kampala|deposed]].
*[[1981]] &ndash; A massive [[1981 Brixton riot|riot in Brixton, south London]] results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[1986 FBI Miami shootout|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 were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular [[40_S&W|.40 S&W cartridge]] was developed.
*[[1987]] &ndash; The [[Peres–Hussein London Agreement|London Agreement]] is secretly signed between [[Israel]]i Foreign Affairs Minister [[Shimon Peres]] and King [[Hussein of Jordan]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; Customs officers in [[Middlesbrough]], England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a [[Project Babylon|massive gun]] on a ship bound for [[Iraq]].
*[[1993]] &ndash; Four hundred fifty prisoners [[Prison riot|riot]]ed at the [[Southern Ohio Correctional Facility]] in [[Lucasville, Ohio]], and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to [[Incarceration in the United States#Conditions|prison conditions]], as well as the forced [[vaccination]] of [[Nation of Islam]] prisoners (for [[tuberculosis]]) against their religious beliefs.
*[[2001]] &ndash; The detained crew of a United States [[EP-3E]] aircraft that [[Hainan Island incident|landed]] in [[Hainan]], China after a collision with a [[Shenyang J-8|J-8]] fighter, is released.
*  2001    &ndash; The [[Australia national men's soccer team]] sets a [[world record]] for the largest victory in an international [[association football]] match, winning the game [[Australia 31–0 American Samoa|31–0]] against [[American Samoa national football team|American Samoa]] at the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]] qualifiers for [[Oceanian Football Confederation|OFC]]. Australia's [[Archie Thompson]] also breaks the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by scoring 13 goals.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/3003021/Australia-score-31-without-loss-in-record-win.html |title=Australia score 31 without loss in record win |date=11 April 2001 |access-date=5 August 2009|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London |first=Christopher |last=Davies}}</ref>
*[[2002]] &ndash; The [[Ghriba synagogue bombing]] by [[al-Qaeda]] kills 21 in [[Tunisia]].
*  2002   &ndash; [[2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt|Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas]] towards the presidential [[Miraflores Palace|palace]] to demand the resignation of President [[Hugo Chávez]]. Nineteen protesters are killed.
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Iranian president]] [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] announces [[Iran]]'s claim to have successfully enriched [[uranium]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/12/iran.topstories3|title=Iran declares: we are in the nuclear club|first=Robert Tait Ewen|last=MacAskill|newspaper=The Guardian |date=April 11, 2006|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[11 April 2007 Algiers bombings|Algiers bombings]]: Two bombings in [[Algiers]] kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Kata Air Transport Flight 007]] crashes while attempting an [[emergency landing]] at [[Chișinău International Airport]], killing eight.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2008 |title=Sudanese plane crashes in Moldova, eight dead |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/198443,sudanese-plane-crashes-in-moldova-eight-dead.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714115007/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/198443,sudanese-plane-crashes-in-moldova-eight-dead.html |archive-date=14 July 2014 |website=Earth Times}}</ref>
*[[2011]] &ndash; An [[2011 Minsk Metro bombing|explosion]] in the [[Minsk Metro]], [[Belarus]] kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
*[[2012]] &ndash; A pair of great [[2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes|earthquakes]] occur in the [[Wharton Basin]] west of [[Sumatra]] in [[Indonesia]]. The maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of this [[Fault (geology)#Strike-slip faults|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]].
*[[2017]] &ndash; The tour bus of the German football team [[Borussia Dortmund]] was [[Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing|attacked]] with [[roadside bomb]]s in [[Dortmund]], Germany. Three bombs exploded as the bus ferried the team to the [[Westfalenstadion]] for the [[2016–17 UEFA Champions League knockout phase#Borussia Dortmund v Monaco|first leg of their quarter-final]] against [[AS Monaco FC|Monaco]].
*[[2018]] &ndash; An [[Ilyushin Il-76]] which was owned and operated by the [[Algerian Air Force]] [[2018 Algerian Air Force Il-76 crash|crashes]] near [[Boufarik]], Algeria, killing 257.
*[[2021]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Ray Sanchez and Mallika Kallingal|title=Ex-police officer Kim Potter weeps, says she's 'sorry' as she recalls fatally shooting Daunte Wright|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/us/kim-potter-trial-friday/index.html|access-date=2021-12-18|website=CNN|date=17 December 2021 }}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; During the [[Pazigyi massacre]], an airstrike conducted by the [[Myanmar Air Force]] kills at least 100 villagers in [[Pazigyi]], [[Sagaing Region]].<ref>{{cite news |date=11 April 2023 |title=Airstrikes on Myanmar village feared to have killed 100 |language=en |work=AP NEWS |url=https://apnews.com/article/airstrikes-military-myanmar-village-918fd636bb81153928ab7481e06423e5}}</ref>