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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2011.
Daily events
Friday April 1, 2011
- Kassel / Germany : The energy company RWE files a lawsuit with the administrative court against the shutdown of Unit A of the Biblis nuclear power plant resulting from the nuclear moratorium .
- Mazar-e Sharif / Afghanistan : After anti-American demonstrations, riots break out in which twelve people are killed; including seven employees of the United Nations .
Saturday 2nd April 2011
- Mumbai / India : In the final of the Cricket World Cup , India defeated Sri Lanka with six wickets.
Sunday 3rd April 2011
- Andorra la Vella / Andorra : In the parliamentary elections , the opposition Democrats win 22 of the 28 seats in parliament , while the ruling party of the Social Democrats wins 6 seats. Head of government is Antoni Martí selected.
- Astana / Kazakhstan : incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev wins the presidential election with 95% of the vote; the OSCE described the election as undemocratic.
- Bamako / Mali : With Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé , a woman takes over the office of Prime Minister for the first time.
- Berlin / Germany : The party leader of the FDP , Guido Westerwelle , announces his resignation from the office at the upcoming party congress. In addition, he is renouncing his office as Vice Chancellor , but remains Federal Foreign Minister .
- Dera Ghazi Khan / Pakistan : At least 42 people are killed and more than 100 others are injured in several Taliban attacks .
- Zurich / Switzerland : In the cantonal elections , the SVP remains the strongest force with 29.6% of the vote, ahead of the SP with 19.3%. The winners of the election day are the Green Liberals , who almost doubled their share of the vote to 10.3%, and the BDP , which is represented in the Cantonal Council for the first time with 3.5%.
Monday April 4, 2011
- Baikonur / Kazakhstan : Launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 mission to the International Space Station .
- Be'er Scheva / Israel : The domestic secret service Shin Bet is bringing charges against the Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi for hundreds of attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization .
- Berlin / Germany : Start of the European Gymnastics Championships
- Kinshasa / DR Congo : At least 32 people are killed in a plane crash.
Tuesday April 5, 2011
- Tripoli / Libya : The government appoints Abd al-Ati al-Ubayyidi as foreign minister .
Wednesday April 6, 2011
- Lampedusa / Italy : Up to 250 people are killed when a boat carrying migrants from North Africa capsizes.
- Lisbon / Portugal : In the course of the sovereign debt crises in the euro area, the country is the third member state of the European Union after Greece and Ireland to make use of EU financial assistance to deal with its debt crisis .
Thursday April 7, 2011
- The Hague / Netherlands : The trial against the alleged masterminds of the unrest in Kenya in 2007/2008 begins before the International Court of Justice .
- Pristina / Kosovo : Parliament elects the 35-year-old President of the State Police Atifete Jahjaga as the new President with a large majority .
- Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : 13 people are killed and more than 22 others are injured in a school rampage .
Friday April 8, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : At the 61st German Film Awards , Vincent will Meer was awarded the title of best feature film by director Ralf Huettner .
- Dar'ā / Syria : At least 30 people are killed in renewed protests against the government.
- Djibouti / Djibouti : In the presidential elections , incumbent Ismail Omar Guelleh wins with 79% of the vote, while his challenger Mohammed Warsama Ragueh wins 21%.
Saturday April 9, 2011
- Abuja / Nigeria : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
- Alphen aan den Rijn / Netherlands : Six people and the gunman are killed and 17 others are injured in a rampage in a shopping center .
- Misrata / Libya : At least 30 people are killed in fighting between rebels and the troops of state leader Muammar al-Gaddafi .
- Reykjavík / Iceland : In a referendum, 59.8% of voters vote against debt repayments by the state for Icesave customers from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as well as Kaupthing Bank's German customers .
Sunday April 10, 2011
- Barcelona / Spain : In a symbolic referendum on the independence of Catalonia, more than 90% of the electorate in the city vote for separation from Spain; voter turnout is only 18%.
- Berlin / Germany : End of the European Gymnastics Championships ; Russia becomes the most successful nation with three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.
- Lima / Peru : In the presidential elections , Ollanta Humala received 32%, Keiko Fujimori 23%, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 19%, Alejandro Toledo 15% and Luis Castañeda Lossio 10% of the vote; Humala and Fujimori will face a runoff election on June 5, 2011.
Monday April 11, 2011
- Abidjan / Ivory Coast : The elected President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested by troops of the elected President Alassane Ouattara as well as French and UN soldiers .
- Minsk / Belarus : An explosion in a metro station kills 15 people and injures more than 150 others.
- Paris / France : nationwide burqa and niqab ban come into force .
- Vienna / Austria : During a police raid in connection with the investigation into the right-wing radical website Alpen-Donau.info , the neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel and another person are arrested for re- activating the Nazis and for inciting hatred .
Tuesday April 12, 2011
- Kloten / Switzerland : In the sixth game of the final series of the National League A , HC Davos defeated the Kloten Flyers 3-2, winning the series 4-2 games and being Swiss ice hockey champions for the 30th time .
- Tokyo / Japan : The nuclear regulatory authority places the nuclear accidents in Fukushima on the highest level of the international rating scale for nuclear events .
Wednesday April 13, 2011
- Brussels / Belgium : The EU Commission for Competition imposes fines totaling 315 million euros on detergent manufacturers Procter & Gamble and Unilever for illegal price fixing ; the Henkel group , which is also involved, is exempt from punishment because of its aid in the discovery.
- Jerusalem / Israel : The Roman Catholic priest Balthasar Linsinger is as 88. Austrians from the Holocaust -Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem in the list of Righteous Among the Nations was added.
- Cairo / Egypt : In the course of the investigation into corruption and abuse of office , the former President Husni Mubarak and his two sons are taken into custody.
- Vienna / Austria : ÖVP Federal Party Chairman, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Josef Pröll announces his resignation from all his offices and his resignation from politics for health reasons. One day later, Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger was designated as his successor as Vice Chancellor and ÖVP Federal Party Chairman .
Thursday April 14, 2011
- Klagenfurt / Austria : In the decisive seventh game of the final series of the Austrian ice hockey league , EC Red Bull Salzburg defeated EC KAC 3-2 after extra time, making them Austrian ice hockey champions for the fourth time .
- Remlingen / Germany : The Federal Office for Radiation Protection found concentrations of cesium-137 in a borehole in the Asse mine, which was tested as a repository for radioactive waste , well above the limit value .
- Sanya / China : At the meeting of the BRIC countries, South Africa is officially accepted as a member, so the name changes to the BRICS countries .
Friday April 15, 2011
- The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced former Croatian General Ante Gotovina to 24 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the war in Croatia .
- Koblenz / Germany : The 31st Federal Garden Show (BUGA) opens. It is the first BUGA in Rhineland-Palatinate .
- Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso : A presidential guard mutiny forces President Blaise Compaoré to flee the capital to his hometown of Ziniaré and to dissolve the government.
- Verden / Germany : The police announce the arrest of an urgent suspect in connection with the school camp murders .
Saturday April 16, 2011
- Abuja / Nigeria : In the presidential elections , incumbent Goodluck Jonathan wins with 57% of the vote, while his challenger Muhammadu Buhari wins 31%.
- Havana / Cuba : beginning of the VI. Communist Party Congress for Political and Economic Reform. During the three-day party congress, Fidel Castro hands over the leadership of the party to his brother Raúl Castro , who accepts the reform proposals to expand the private sector.
- Cairo / Egypt : An administrative court orders the liquidation and confiscation of the assets of the former ruling party NDP of the former President Husni Mubarak .
- Rome / Italy : The government of Silvio Berlusconi is for the first time issuing temporary residence permits to refugees from North Africa .
- Washington, DC / United States : At least 45 people have been killed in several tornadoes in the south of the country since Thursday.
- Vienna / Austria : At the 2011 Romy Awards , Ursula Strauss and Fritz Karl are honored as the most popular actors and the best film is The Unintentional Abduction of Mrs. Elfriede Ott by Andreas Prochaska .
Sunday April 17, 2011
- Esslingen / Germany : The Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari is awarded the Theodor Haecker Prize .
- Helsinki / Finland : In the parliamentary elections , the National Gathering Party , chaired by Jyrki Katainen , was the strongest party with 20.4% of the vote, ahead of the Social Democratic Party with 19.1% and the True Finns party with 19.0%. The previously ruling Center Party lost 7.3 percentage points and only got 15.8% of the vote.
Monday April 18, 2011
- Budapest / Hungary : The parliament passes a new and controversial constitution with a 2/3 majority.
- Sanaa / Yemen : As a result of protests start renegade members and ministers of the ruling party General People's Congress with the block for Justice and Development , a new opposition party.
Tuesday April 19, 2011
- Magdeburg / Germany : Reiner Haseloff ( CDU ) is elected Prime Minister by the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament ; Detlef Gürth (CDU) becomes the new President of the State Parliament .
- New York / United States : The gold price has reached an all-time high of over 1500 US dollars per troy ounce.
- Wolfsburg / Germany : In the third game of the final series of the German Ice Hockey League , the Eisbären Berlin Grizzly Adams defeat Wolfsburg 5: 4, winning the final series 3: 0 and are German ice hockey champions for the fifth time .
Wednesday April 20, 2011
- Sriharikota / India : The carrier rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched three satellites on board from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in orbit .
Thursday April 21, 2011
- Damascus / Syria : President Bashar al-Assad is lifting the state of emergency that has existed in the country for 48 years , thereby fulfilling one of the main demands of the government opponents .
- Moscow / Russia : The Sukhoi Superjet 100 , the first aircraft developed for civil aviation since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is making its maiden flight from Yerevan .
- Vienna / Austria : The newly appointed ministers Maria Fekter ( finance ), Johanna Mikl-Leitner ( interior ), Beatrix Karl ( justice ) and Karlheinz Töchterle ( science and research ) as well as Michael Spindelegger become the new vice chancellor as part of a restructuring of the federal government sworn in their offices .
Friday April 22, 2011
- Damascus / Syria : Over 100 people are killed in attacks by government troops on demonstrators in several cities in the country.
- Lima / Peru : Five years after the announced exit, Venezuela officially leaves the Andean Community .
- Manila / Philippines : At least 27 people are killed in a landslide in the south of the country.
Saturday April 23, 2011
- Preah Vihear / Cambodia : In the conflict over the Prasat Preah Vihear and Prasat Ta Khwai temples on the border with Thailand , which has been simmering for decades , there are again battles in which at least eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured.
Sunday April 24th 2011
- Washington, DC / United States : WikiLeaks begins publishing classified military documents about the Guantanamo camp , which are supposed to prove that at least 150 prisoners were wrongly detained.
Monday April 25, 2011
- Beijing / China : A building erected without a permit catches fire due to a defective electric car , the accident kills 18 people and injures 24 others.
Tuesday April 26, 2011
- Rome / Italy : Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announces his country's participation in the international military operation in Libya .
Wednesday April 27, 2011
- Dharamsala / India : The lawyer Lobsang Sangay is elected as the new Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile . In the future he will take over the political role of the Dalai Lama .
- Ramallah / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : Hamas, ruling in the Gaza Strip , and Fatah, ruling in the West Bank , agree to resolve their conflict and form a joint transitional government.
- Tokyo / Japan : The electronics company Sony announces that in a hacking attack on the network of the PlayStation 3 game console, personal data of over 70 million users were stolen, including credit card data . The Sony Online Entertainment computer network has also been hit by a hacker attack; data from around 25 million users were stolen there.
Thursday April 28, 2011
- Lima / Peru : Chile , Colombia , Mexico and Peru sign an agreement to form the Pacific Alliance .
- Marrakech / Morocco : At least 16 people, including eight French, are killed in a terrorist attack on a café that is popular with tourists on the Djemaa el Fna market square .
- Tuscaloosa / United States : A series of tornadoes kills more than 300 people , mainly in the state of Alabama .
Friday April 29, 2011
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- Aschment / Egypt : At least 22 people are killed in a bus accident.
- Bochum , Düsseldorf / Germany : Three members of the so-called " Düsseldorf cell " of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda are arrested.
- Bratislava , Košice / Slovakia : The men's ice hockey world championship begins.
- London / United Kingdom : William Mountbatten-Windsor , number two in the line of succession to the British throne , marries his fiancée Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey .
Saturday April 30th 2011
- Porto-Novo / Benin : In the parliamentary elections , the “Forces Cauris pour un Bénin émergent” will win 41 of the 83 seats in the National Assembly .
- Vientiane / Laos : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
See also
- Nekrolog April 2011 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
- Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April
Web links
Commons : April 2011 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ stern.de: RWE sued against Biblis shutdown: The end of a nuclear friendship (accessed on April 2, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Storming of the UN office in Afghanistan - anti-American protest leads to an orgy of violence (accessed April 2, 2011).
- ↑ espncricinfo.com: Dhoni and Gambhir lead India to World Cup glory (accessed April 17, 2011).
- ↑ europeonline-magazine.eu: Change of government in the mini-state Andorra (accessed on April 5, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: First woman in Mali to head the government ( memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 4, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Withdrawal from party leadership - Westerwelle makes room for the young guard (accessed on April 3, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Terror in Pakistan - suicide bomber survived his own attack (accessed on April 5, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Green Liberals and BDP are the names of the winners in the canton of Zurich (accessed on April 4, 2011).
- ↑ de.rian.ru: Spaceship “Gagarin” launched with a new crew from the ISS (accessed on April 9, 2011).
- ↑ israelnetz.com: Secret Service files lawsuit against Abu Sisi ( Memento of January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 5, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: 32 dead in crash of UN plane (accessed on April 5, 2011).
- ↑ rp-online.de : Libya appoints new foreign minister ( Memento of April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Up to 250 dead in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean ( memento from April 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 6, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Debt crisis - Portugal begs for EU money (accessed on April 6, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: International Court of Justice: The hearing on unrest after the election in Kenya begins in The Hague ( Memento of July 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 7, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Kosovo: Jahjaga becomes the new president (accessed on April 8, 2011).
- ↑ taz.de: Blood deed in Rio de Janeiro - 13 dead in school rampage (accessed April 7, 2011).
- ^ The German Film Prize 2011 - The winners. In: Moviepilot . April 9, 2011, accessed August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ stern.de: Human rights group speaks of 37 dead in protests in Syria (accessed April 9, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: incumbent Guelleh winner of the presidential election in Djibouti ( Memento from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 11, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Election offices in Nigeria are initially only partially open ( memento from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 9, 2011).
- ↑ The perpetrator had five gun licenses. In: rp-online.de . April 10, 2011, accessed September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ de.reuters.com: At least 30 Libyan rebels killed in Misrata (accessed April 10, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Banks - Icelanders do not want to pay for bankruptcy banks (accessed April 10, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Catalonia - Symbolic vote on independence was not a success (accessed on April 11, 2011).
- ↑ welt.de: Contaminated candidates - Peru's presidential election "between cancer and AIDS" (accessed April 12, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Ivory Coast - Soldiers arrest Gbagbo in his bunker (accessed on April 11, 2011).
- ^ Indictment against the Minsk Metro assassin in: NZZ Online (accessed on August 3, 2011)
- ↑ derstandard.at: 12 dead in an attack on the subway in Minsk (accessed on April 12, 2011.)
- ↑ focus.de: Burka ban comes into force (accessed on April 11, 2011).
- ↑ orf.at: Neo-Nazi Küssel arrested in Vienna (accessed April 14, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: HC Davos with the 30th championship title (accessed on April 20, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Highest danger level - Japan now assesses Fukushima as a Chernobyl disaster (accessed on April 12, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Procter, Unilever and Co. - Competition guardians punish detergent cartel (accessed on April 13, 2011).
- ^ Salzburg.orf.at: Israel honors pastor Linsinger from Grossarl (accessed on April 13, 2011).
- ↑ ftd.de: Revolution in Egypt - ex-dictator Mubarak in custody ( memento of January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 13, 2011).
- ↑ orf.at: Pröll resigns all offices - decision in the circle of the family (accessed on April 13, 2011).
- ^ Oe24.at: Pröll resignation - Spindelegger takes over the ÖVP (accessed April 14, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: And again the master is called Red Bull (accessed on April 20, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Nuclear waste storage facility - radiation protection officers report increased radioactivity in the Asse (accessed on April 15, 2011).
- ^ Diepresse.com: The BRIC states become the BRICS states (accessed on April 15, 2011).
- ↑ dw-world.de: imprisonment for Croatian war criminals (accessed 15 April 2011).
- ↑ BUGA Koblenz 2011. In: bundesgartenschau.de, Deutsche Bundesgartenschau-Gesellschaft mbH. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
- ^ Nzz.ch: Mutiny of the Presidential Guard of Burkina Faso - Head of State fled the capital Ouagadougou (accessed April 15, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Burkina Faso's President Compaoré dismisses ministers - government dissolution after mutiny in Ouagadougou ( memento of April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 16, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Police arrest suspect in Dennis murder case (accessed April 17, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Nigeria - election victory for Jonathan (accessed April 19, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Fidel Castro confirms departure from party leadership (accessed on April 19, 2011).
- ^ Abendblatt.de: Court in Cairo decides - Out for NDP: Mubarak's ruling party dissolved (accessed on April 16, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: EU dispute over refugees - Italy issues Tunisians with papers for onward travel (accessed on April 18, 2011).
- ↑ DPA: USA: Severe bushfires after tornadoes - 45 dead. In: hna.de. April 18, 2011, accessed April 10, 2019 .
- ↑ esslinger-zeitung.de: With courage and sincerity for human rights (accessed April 17, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Shift to the right in the election - opponents of the euro triumph in Finland (accessed on April 18, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Controversial Constitution - Fear of Hungary's arrogance (accessed on April 18, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Yemen - Salih apostates found a new party (accessed April 19, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Saxony-Anhalt - Reiner Haseloff new head of government (accessed on April 19, 2011).
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Gold cracks the $ 1,500 mark (accessed April 27, 2011).
- ↑ kicker.de: DEL: Wolfsburg also loses the third play-off final - the polar bears are German champions! (Accessed April 20, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: India brings three satellites into space (accessed on May 2, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Syria - President Assad ratifies the end of the state of emergency (accessed on April 22, 2011).
- ↑ aktuell.ru: Yerevan-Moscow: First scheduled flight with Sukhoi Superjet (accessed on April 25, 2011).
- ^ Diepresse.com: Team Spindelegger sworn in (accessed April 21, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: After "Bloody Friday" in Syria: Tens of thousands demonstrate despite snipers (accessed on April 23, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Andean Community - Venezuela leaves trading bloc (accessed April 23, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Many dead in landslide in the Philippines (accessed April 22, 2011).
- ↑ welt.de: Deadly Skirmishes - Cambodia accuses Thailand of using poison gas (accessed on April 23, 2011).
- ↑ fr-online.de: Wikileaks reveals - The arbitrariness of Guantánamo (accessed on April 26, 2011).
- ↑ Fire disasters in residential buildings in the past 15 years. In: nachrichten.at . June 14, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ faz.net: Libya - Italy participates in attacks (accessed on May 2, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: A Harvard professor as a bearer of hope ( memento from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ stern.de : Israel's Foreign Minister threatens Abbas because of an agreement with Hamas ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ spiegel.de: Attack on the Playstation network - wake-up call for Sony's army of players (accessed on April 27, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Millions of bank data stolen - Sony reports a hacker attack on another network (accessed on May 3, 2011).
- ↑ handelsblatt.com: Pacific Alliance founded in Lima (accessed April 29, 2011).
- ↑ Morocco's path toward reform under King Mohammed. In: reuters.com . November 24, 2011, accessed September 6, 2018 .
- ↑ spiegel.de: Monster Tornadoes - "Wooden beams fell from the sky" (accessed on April 29, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Misfortune in Egypt - bus overturns from Nile ferry (accessed April 29, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Strike against al-Qaida suspects: CIA observed the "Düsseldorfer cell" (accessed on July 23, 2013).
- ↑ spiegel.de: A couple in luck, a people ecstatic (accessed on April 29, 2011).
- ^ Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), elections held in 2011. In: ipu.org . 2011, accessed September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ derstandard.at: Parliamentary elections in Laos - unified list of the ruling communists (accessed on May 2, 2011).