1981<\/strong> – U.S. President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital after recovering from an assassination attempt on March 30.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – In the Brixton area of London, a race riot erupted that resulted in the injury of more than 300 people.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – China invaded Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – General Secretary Konstantin U. Cherenkov was named the president of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Scientists in Hawaii measured the distance between the earth and moon within one inch.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The White House announced that President Reagan would visit the Nazi cemetery at Bitburg.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around the world in 150 days.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – In Groton, CT, the submarine Nautilus<\/i> exhibit opened to the public.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Kellogg’s stopped giving tours of its breakfast-food plant. The reason for the end of the 80-year tradition was said to be that company secrets were at risk due to spies from other cereal companies.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – U.N. Security Council issued a formal cease-fire with Iraq.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Forty-three African nations signed the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff was killed with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Jessica had hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Northern Ireland’s biggest political party, the Ulster Unionists, announced its backing of the historic peace deal.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president of Niger. President Ibrahim Bar\u00e9 Ma\u00efnassara had been assassinated on April 9.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainan, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> – Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than two million movies.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – The FIFA World Cup opener in South Africa. It was the first time it was held in Africa.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> \u2013 An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> \u2013 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 was VII (Very strong<\/i>). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> \u2013 An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.<\/p>\n History of 11 April 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital after recovering from an assassination attempt on March 30. 1981 – In the Brixton area of London, a race riot erupted that resulted in the injury of more than 300 people. 1984 – China invaded Vietnam. 1984 – General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[700,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-11-april","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-16r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23724,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/23724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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