About April 11
April 11, 2024 is the 102nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 293 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 11
- 1241 –Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
- 1512 –War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
- 1689 –William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1881 –Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2006 –Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 2011 –2011 Minsk Metro bombing
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