What are the important events that happened on April 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 11 is the 101st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 29, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 484,536 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahenagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac 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 312 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,494 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 11 Historical Events
- 491 –Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
- 1689 –William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 1713 –War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
- 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.
- 1908 –SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
- 1919 –The International Labour Organization is founded.
- 1921 –Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- 1955 –The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
Who were born on April 11?
- 1794 –Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
- 1856 –Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (d. 1903)
- 1889 –Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
- 1946 –Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
- 1947 –Meshach Taylor, American actor
- 1964 –Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
- 1974 –Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
- 1978 –Brett Claywell, American actor
- 1983 –Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
- 1986 –Stephanie Pratt, American reality TV personality
Who died on April 11?
- 1612 –Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
- 1626 –Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
- 1798 –Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
- 1908 –Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)
- 1916 –Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
- 1996 –Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
- 2000 –Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
- 2007 –Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
- 2008 –Merlin German, United States Marine (b. 1985)
- 2009 –Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (b. 1927)
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