About April 11
April 11, 2025 is the 101st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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What Happened On April 11
- 491 –Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
- 1713 –War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
- 1775 –The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
- 1814 –The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
- 1868 –Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 1876 –The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- 1888 –The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1921 –Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- 1945 –World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 1965 –The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
- 1968 –President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
- 1970 –Apollo 13 is launched.
- 1976 –The Apple I is created.
- 1981 –A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- 1990 –Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
- 2001 –The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.
- 2002 –Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.
- 2006 –Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 2007 –2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
- 2011 –2011 Minsk Metro bombing
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