Wikipedia:ITN archives/2011/April
(Archive begins here and is to be continued from here forward).
| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 30 | 5/7 |
- Mayotte officially became France's 101st department, as approved by 95% of the population in a 2009 referendum.[1]
- At least eleven people are killed in an attack by demonstrators on a UN compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.[2]
- Arturo Chávez resigns as Mexico's Attorney General amid the ongoing Drug War.[3]
- India defeat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the Cricket World Cup final.[4]
- Japan's Monkashō announces that it had found evidence of match fixing in the Japanese Sumo Association.[5]
- A series of floods that began in Southern Thailand kill at least 120 people and affect nearly two million.[6]
- Double suicide bombings at a Sufi shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan leave 50 people dead and 120 wounded.[7]
- The wreckage of Air France Flight 447 which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 is found.[8]
- In college basketball, The University of Connecticut Huskies defeats Butler University to win the NCAA Championship.[9]
- A United Nations aircraft crashes in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 32 of the 33 people onboard.[10]
- Bones of a new dinosaur almost as big as a Tyrannosaurus are found in eastern China.[11]
- The Democrats for Andorra win an absolute majority in a parliamentary election.[12]
- The Ozone layer experienced the highest level of depletion on record as result of cold temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere last winter.[13]
- At least 20 people are dead and over 100 missing after a boat sinks off Lampedusa, Italy.[14]
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg, the 1976 Nobel Prize for Medicine winner and discoverer of the first vaccine for Hepatitis B, dies at the age of 85.[15]
- At least 11 people are killed and 20 more injured in a shooting at a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[16]
- The Chinese government announces that artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has been arrested.[17]
- Indian social activist Anna Hazare fasts until the Indian government passes stronger anti-corruption laws.[18]
- At least 27 people are killed in the anti-governmental protests in the Syrian city of Deraa.[19]
- A gunman opens fire in a shopping centre in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, killing himself and 7 others.[20]
- American film director Sydney Lumet dies at the age of 86.[21]
- In golf, South African Charl Schwartzel wins The Masters.[22]
- Laurent Gbagbo is arrested by Ouattara forces, concluding months of standoff.[23]
- Iceland rejects a plan to repay the British and Dutch governments over guarantee savings over Icesave's failure.[24]
- The Japan Atomic Energy Agency raises the severity of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents to level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale and equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.[25]
- At least 12 people are killed in a bombing at a metro station in Minsk.[26]
- The French ban on face covering is implemented, making France the first European country with such a ban.[27]
- BRICS states meet in Sanya, China for an annual summit that features South Africa for the first time.[28]
- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal are detained for 15 days following the revolution.[29]
- APNIC becomes the first regional Internet registry to run out of IPv4 addresses.[30]
- States of emergency are declared in several areas across the Southern United States after at least 26 people are killed in a large tornado outbreak.[31]
- Former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is sentenced to 24 years prison after being found guilty of war crimes during Operation Storm.[32]
- An Egyptian court orders the dissolution of the former ruling National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak (pictured) as part of overall political reform.[33]
- The National Coalition Party, led by Jyrki Katainen, win a plurality in the Finnish parliamentary election, while the nationalist True Finns increase their vote nearly five-fold to become the third largest party in parliament.[34]
- Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee.[35]
- President Goodluck Jonathan pictured, of Nigeria is reelected with a majority of more than ten million.[36]
- Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[37]
- Syria lifts its 48-year-old state of emergency in response to anti-government protests.[38]
- The Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional airliner performs its first commercial flight.[39]
- Photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros are killed in the Battle of Misrata in Libya.[40]
- At least 50 people are reported killed in the biggest day of protests in Syria this year.[41]
- Indian guru and spiritual figure Sathya Sai Baba dies at the age of 84.[42]
- After four months of anti-government protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down within thirty days.[43]
- In association football, the Copa del Rey ends with Real Madrid defeating Barcelona in the final.[44]
- WikiLeaks and several news organizations begin publishing 779 secret documents related to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.[45]
- Violence continues along the Cambodian–Thai border with shelling and gunfire outside the Ta Moan temple complex.[46]
- Former South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu dies at the age of 87.[47]
- Sony announces that a breach of its PlayStation Network may have resulted in a compromise of users' personal data.[48]
- Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sign a deal to form a unity government ahead of elections.[49]
- More than 200 people are killed in the Southern United States in the deadliest tornado outbreak since 1974.[50]
- The wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton takes place in London.[51]
- Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan wins the 2011 World Figure Skating Men's event in Moscow, setting record scores for long and short program.[52]
References[edit]
- ^ Mayotte (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 2011 Mazar-i-Sharif attack (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Arturo Chávez (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2011 Cricket World Cup Final (User:NuclearWarfare) Later pulled then readded.
- ^ Sumo#Match-fixing (User:RxS)
- ^ 2011 Thai floods (User:Tone) Later "temporarily removed".
- ^ April 2011 Dera Ghazi Khan bombings (User:Cenarium)
- ^ Air France Flight 447 (User:Cenarium)
- ^ 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament (User:Jayron32)
- ^ 2011 United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash (User:Jayron32)
- ^ Zhuchengtyrannus (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Andorran parliamentary election, 2011 (User:Tone)
- ^ Ozone depletion#Arctic ozone hole (User:RxS)
- ^ 2011 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Baruch Samuel Blumberg (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Rio de Janeiro school shooting (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Ai Weiwei (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Anna Hazare (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2011 Syrian protests#8 April (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shootings (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Sydney Lumet (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2011 Masters Tournament (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Laurent Gbagbo (User:Tone)
- ^ Icelandic loan guarantees referendum, 2011 (User:Cenarium)
- ^ Fukushima I nuclear accidents (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2011 Minsk Metro bombing (User:Tone)
- ^ French ban on face covering (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2011 BRICS summit (User:Tone)
- ^ Hosni Mubarak (User:Tone)
- ^ IPv4 address exhaustion#Impact of APNIC RIR exhaustion and LIR exhaustion (User:Fox) Later undone.
- ^ Mid-April 2011 tornado outbreak (User:Titoxd)
- ^ Ante Gotovina (User:Titoxd)
- ^ National Democratic Party (Egypt) (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 (User:KFP)
- ^ Fidel Castro (User:Prodego)
- ^ Goodluck Jonathan (User:Davidcannon)
- ^ A Visit From the Goon Squad (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2011 Syrian protests#Lifting of the state of emergency (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Sukhoi Superjet 100 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Battle of Misrata (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2011 Syrian protests#Lifting of the state of emergency (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Sathya Sai Baba (User:BorgQueen) Later removed then reposted.
- ^ 2011 Yemeni protests#23 April (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2011 Copa del Rey Final (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Guantanamo Bay files leak (User:Tariqabjotu) Later pulled due to "too many problems", reposted and pulled again with no reason in edit summary.
- ^ Cambodian–Thai border dispute#April 2011 (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ PlayStation Network outage (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Palestinian National Authority#Politics and internal structure (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton (User:Tone)
- ^ Patrick Chan#2010–2011 season (User:Tone)