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
- 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.
- 1727 –Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
- 1775 –The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
- 1809 –Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
- 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.
- 1881 –Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- 1951 –Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
- 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.
- 1952 –The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- 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.
- 1979 –Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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