About December 11
December 11, 2024 is the 346th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 49 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 11
- 1602 –A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.
- 1792 –French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
- 1907 –The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 1917 –British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
- 1925 –Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
- 1927 –Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
- 1937 –Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
- 1946 –The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
- 1948 –The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.
- 1958 –French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.
- 1960 –French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.
- 1962 –Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
- 1964 –Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
- 1981 –El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
- 1994 –A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila to Tokyo, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
- 1994 –First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
- 1998 –Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Thai Airways Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
- 2005 –Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
- 2005 –The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
- 2007 –Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
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