About April 11
April 11, 2025 is the 101st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 312 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.
- 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
- 1856 –Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
- 1881 –Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- 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.
- 1952 –The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- 1957 –United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- 1961 –The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2006 –Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
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