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Business and economy The Chinese economy grew by 9.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2011 while inflation was 5.4%, the highest level in nearly three years. (Reuters) Two South Korean internet search engines accuse Google of antitrust violations. (Bernama) Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades Ireland's rating to Baa3, one step above junk bond status. (Dow Jones via Wall Street Journal ...
April 15: Father Damien Day in Hawaii; Birthday of the Great Leader in North Korea 1738 – Serse , an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia , premiered in London .
April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975)
April 15: 2011: Oklahoma, Texas [148] 50,321: 1: 2011 Texas ... This was only the second day on record to be given the "historically critical" designation on the Red ...
Hurricane Isabel was the costliest and deadliest hurricane in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.The ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Isabel formed from a tropical wave on September 6 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
April 15 – Rio is released in ... broadcast its 46th annual MDA Labor Day Telethon. The 2011 telethon raised $61,491,393 — up from the $58,919,838 achieved during ...
Events. 1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.; 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.; 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth and Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
From April 14–16, 2011, a tornado outbreak, among the largest recorded tornado outbreaks in U.S. history, produced 178 confirmed tornadoes across 16 states, resulting in severe destruction on all three days of the outbreak.