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
- 361 –Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
- 1789 –The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
- 1816 –Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
- 1905 –A workers’ uprising occurs in Kiev and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
- 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.
- 1946 –The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
- 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.
- 1964 –Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
- 1972 –Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
- 1980 –The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
- 1993 –Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 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.
- 2006 –The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
- 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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