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
- 1079 –Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
- 1241 –Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
- 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
- 1868 –Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –2011 Minsk Metro bombing
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