About April 11

April 11, 2023 is the 101st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 305 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.
  • 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.
  • 1809 –
    Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
  • 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.
  • 1919 –
    The International Labour Organization is founded.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
  • 2007 –
    2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
  • 2011 –
    2011 Minsk Metro bombing

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