About April 11
April 11, 2021 is the 101st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 296 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.
- 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
- 1809 –Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
- 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.
- 1908 –SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
- 1945 –World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
- 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.
- 2002 –Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.
- 2011 –2011 Minsk Metro bombing
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