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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 312 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 11

  • 491 –
    Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
  • 1079 –
    Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
  • 1727 –
    Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
  • 1809 –
    Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
  • 1876 –
    The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
  • 1888 –
    The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
  • 1908 –
    SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
  • 1919 –
    The International Labour Organization is founded.
  • 1921 –
    Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • 1951 –
    Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
  • 1951 –
    The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
  • 1955 –
    The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
  • 1961 –
    The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
  • 2011 –
    2011 Minsk Metro bombing

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