About April 11
April 11, 2022 is the 101st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 286 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.
- 1775 –The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
- 1856 –Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
- 1876 –The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- 1881 –Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- 1919 –The International Labour Organization is founded.
- 1945 –World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 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.
- 1955 –The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1961 –The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 1979 –Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- 1981 –A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2007 –2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
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