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Saturday, 11 April 2026

2007

2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.

2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

2002

The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place.

2001

The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released.

Australia beats American Samoa in a 31-0 win, the biggest ever in a international match of football.

2000

AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.

1993

450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

1990

Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

1987

The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

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