About December 11
December 11, 2025 is the 345th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 68 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 11
- 1789 –The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
- 1815 –the U.S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
- 1816 –Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
- 1868 –Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avaí during the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1905 –A workers’ uprising occurs in Kiev and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
- 1907 –The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1917 –British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
- 1925 –Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
- 1931 –The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
- 1936 –Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII’s abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.
- 1948 –The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.
- 1958 –French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.
- 1960 –French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.
- 1980 –The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
- 1994 –A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to Tokyo, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
- 1994 –First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
- 1997 –The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
- 2006 –Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, the president of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacan. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
- 2006 –The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
- 2008 –Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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