WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak. Date: April 24, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 24 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961. Date: April 19, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 19 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus, kills 15 people and injures 204 others. Date: April 11, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 11 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. Date: April 9, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide. Date: April 7, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 7 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever. Date: April 7, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 7 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves. Date: April 6, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 6 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, killing 32. Date: April 4, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 4 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
India wins the Cricket World Cup for the second time in history under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. Date: April 2, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 2 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers. Date: April 1, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 1 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On…