About April 11

April 11, 2020 is the 102nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 307 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.
  • 1713 –
    War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
  • 1727 –
    Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
  • 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.
  • 1856 –
    Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
  • 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.
  • 1919 –
    The International Labour Organization is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1952 –
    The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
  • 1961 –
    The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  • 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.
  • 1987 –
    The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
  • 1993 –
    450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
  • 2011 –
    2011 Minsk Metro bombing

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