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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 29, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,712,793,600 seconds 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 ‘hectadigon’ day.
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 293 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 4,129 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.
- 1512 –War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
- 1689 –William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 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.
- 1888 –The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1965 –The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
- 1976 –The Apple I is created.
- 1987 –The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- 2002 –The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
Who were born on April 11?
- 1798 –Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
- 1810 –Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
- 1819 –Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- 1914 –Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- 1917 –Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
- 1923 –George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (d. 1980)
- 1950 –Tom Hill, English bass guitarist (Geordie)
- 1958 –Brynn Hartman, wife and murderer of comedian Phil Hartman (d. 1998)
- 1964 –Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
- 1969 –Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
Who died on April 11?
- 1906 –Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
- 1962 –Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist (b. 1900)
- 1967 –Donald Sangster, Jamaican Prime Minister (b. 1911)
- 1970 –John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
- 1985 –Enver Hoxha, Albanian Stalinist dictator (b. 1908)
- 1996 –Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
- 2001 –Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
- 2005 –Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
- 2008 –Merlin German, United States Marine (b. 1985)
- 2011 –La Esterella, Flemish singer (b. 1919)
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