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Events

• 1957 (69 years ago) United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
• 1961 (65 years ago) The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• 1987 (39 years ago) The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
• 2002 (24 years ago) The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
• 2006 (20 years ago) Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
• 2012 (14 years ago) 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, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.

Births

• 145 (1881 years ago) Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (probable; died 211)
• 1770 (256 years ago) George Canning, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1827)
• 1825 (201 years ago) Ferdinand Lassalle, German philosopher and jurist (died 1864)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Andrew Wiles, English mathematician and academic
• 1953 (73 years ago) Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1981 (45 years ago) Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model[citation needed]
• 1991 (35 years ago) Thiago Alcântara, Spanish footballer
• 1996 (30 years ago) Dele Alli, English international footballer

Deaths

• 678 (1348 years ago) Donus, pope of the Catholic Church (born 610)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (born 1830)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (born 1900)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (born 1908)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (born 1919)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1922)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (born 1916)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (born 1925)

All 405 events, births and deaths of April 11