April
11
Events
1919 – The International Labour Organization
is founded.
1954 – Computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe calculates
this day to be the most objectively dull day since 1900.
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes
hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost
300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards
the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation
of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and
the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez
resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that
Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2012 – A magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Indonesia, off northern
Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. After that there are still more
continuation earthquake. Tsunami had hit the island of Nias
at Indonesia.
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