Today in History

April 11

1843 - Britain separates Gambia from Sierra Leone as a crown colony.

1899 - Treaty ending SpanishAmerican War comes into effect. 1957 - Great Britain comes to agreement with Singapore giving it independence.

1961 - Nigeria imposes total boycott on trade with South Africa.

1970 - Apollo 13 blasts off on a mission to the moon that is disrupted when an explosion cripples the spacecraft.

1979 - Idi Amin is deposed as President of Uganda, Yusufu Lule forms the new government.

1984 - Konstantin Chernenko is appointed by parliament as Soviet leader.

1990 - Angolan government agrees to begin peace talks with rebel group Unita in Portugal.

1991 - UN Security Council announces a formal end to the Gulf War.

1992 - The Yugoslav army seizes the town of Modrica, Bosnia, sending thousands of refugees fleeing toward Tuzla.

1994 - US President Bill Clinton orders trade sanctions against

Taiwan for trafficking in endangered tiger and rhinoceros parts.

1997 - Indian Prime Minister Deve Gowda’s 10-month-old coalition is voted out of office.

1999 - India test fires Agni II missile, the first missile test in five years. 2006 - Centre-left economist Romano Prodi emerges the winner of Italy’s election by a razor-thin margin.

2007 - Knowledge Village launches the Dubai International Academic City.

2010 - Sudan holds first multiparty elections in a quarter-century.

2011 - France begins to enforce ban on Islamic face veils in public.

2012 - Algeria’s first president Ahmad Bin Bella dies at the age of 95.

2013 - Mahmudur Rahman, editor of Amar Desh, the mouthpiece of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is arrested for sedition and inciting religious tension.

2015 - US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro head towards historic talks in Panama.

2016 - UAE issues Child Rights Law to protect children across the UAE from negligence, mistreatment and exploitation.