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

  • 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.
  • 1713 –
    War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
  • 1775 –
    The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1921 –
    Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • 1955 –
    The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
  • 1957 –
    United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
  • 1961 –
    The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
  • 1987 –
    The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
  • 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 –
    The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
  • 2011 –
    2011 Minsk Metro bombing

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