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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 28, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,897,920 minutes 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 ‘trihectatetracontahexagon’ day.
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 49 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 4,373 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 11 Historical Events
- 1282 –Llywelyn the Last, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1972 –Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
- 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.
- 2006 –Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, the president of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacan. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
Who were born on December 11?
- 1897 –Ronald Skirth, conscientious objector of the First World War (d. 1977)
- 1918 –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1924 –Doc Blanchard, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1931 –Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress
- 1936 –Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician
- 1941 –Max Baucus, American politician, senior senator of Montana
- 1942 –Donna Mills, American actress
- 1962 –Paul Haslinger, Austrian-born composer
- 1966 –Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer/actor
- 1969 –Sean Grande, American sportscaster
Who died on December 11?
- 1121 –Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Galilean political advisor (b. 1066)
- 1226 –Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
- 1282 –Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
- 1959 –Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1964 –Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
- 1975 –Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
- 1978 –Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
- 1984 –Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
- 1991 –Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host (b. 1921)
- 2007 –Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
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