Consecration of Pope Adeodatus II following the death of Pope Vitalian.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 0672Head of the Catholic Church from 672 to 676
Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 1241Founder and first Khan of the Golden Horde (r. 1227–1255)
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.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 1689King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702
Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ April 11, 1727German composer (1685–1750)
Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 18091809 naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars
Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 JAPAN🗓️ April 11, 1868Military nobility of Japan (1185–1868)
Spelman College is founded in Atlanta📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 1881Historically Black women's college in Atlanta, Georgia, US
SMS Blücher📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 1908Armored cruiser of the German Imperial Navy
Stresa Front: opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 19351935 agreement between France, Italy, and Britain
Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 1952Revolution that occurred in Bolivia in 1952
The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA🗓️ April 11, 1955Flag carrier of India
Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 BRAZIL🗓️ April 11, 1964President of Brazil from 1964 to 1967
The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 1965Natural disaster in the US
A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ April 11, 1968German student activist (1940–1979)
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 1968President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 19701961–1972 American crewed lunar exploration program
London Transport’s Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 1977Executive agency responsible for public transportation in Greater London (1970-84)
A massive riot in Brixton📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 1981Clashes between police and protesters in London in 1981
American-Israeli reservist Alan Harry Goodman carried out a mass shooting at the Dome of the Rock📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 1982Shooting at the Dome of the Rock in 1982
The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 19871987 secret treaty between Israel and Jordan on future Arab-Israeli peace talks
Customs officers in Middlesbrough📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 1990Town in North Yorkshire, England
Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 1993Organized act of defiance by prisoners against each other or the prison administration
The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 2001Signals reconnaissance aircraft of the US Navy
The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 20022002 Islamist suicide bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia
Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 2007Terrorist attacks in Algiers, Algeria
Kata Air Transport Flight 007 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Chișinău International Airport📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 20082008 aviation incident in Moldova
An explosion in the Minsk Metro📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 2011Terrorist attack of the Kastryčnickaja metro station, Minsk, Belarus
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📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA🗓️ April 11, 20122012 earthquake near Aceh Province, Indonesia
An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 2018Russian heavy four-engined military transport jet aircraft
Consecration of Pope Adeodatus II following the death of Pope Vitalian.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 0672Head of the Catholic Church from 672 to 676
Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 11, 1241Founder and first Khan of the Golden Horde (r. 1227–1255)
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.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 1689King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702
Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ April 11, 1727German composer (1685–1750)
Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 18091809 naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars
Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 JAPAN🗓️ April 11, 1868Military nobility of Japan (1185–1868)
Spelman College is founded in Atlanta📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 11, 1881Historically Black women's college in Atlanta, Georgia, US
SMS Blücher📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ April 11, 1908Armored cruiser of the German Imperial Navy