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.
- 1789 –The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
- 1792 –French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
- 1868 –Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avaí during the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 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.
- 1934 –Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
- 1936 –Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII’s abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.
- 1937 –Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
- 2001 –The People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
- 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.
- 2008 –Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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