What are the important events that happened on December 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 11 is the 345th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 28, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 490,392 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 ‘trihectatetracontapentagon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac 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 68 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 4,738 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 11 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1868 –Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avaí during the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1905 –A workers’ uprising occurs in Kiev and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
- 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.
- 1958 –French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.
- 1993 –Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 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 –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.
Who were born on December 11?
- 1908 –Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
- 1908 –Elliott Carter, American composer
- 1908 –Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director
- 1918 –Clinton Adams, American artist (d. 2002)
- 1923 –Betsy Blair, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1931 –Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher
- 1933 –Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
- 1936 –Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
- 1961 –Marco Pierre White, English chef and restaurateur
- 1969 –Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster, current World Chess Champion
Who died on December 11?
- 1282 –Michael VIII Palaiologos (b. 1225)
- 1797 –Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
- 1826 –Empress Maria Leopoldina of Austria of Empire of Brazil (b. 1797)
- 1872 –King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
- 1959 –Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1983 –Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
- 1984 –Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
- 1997 –Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (b. 1914)
- 2004 –M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
- 2008 –Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
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