What happened on April 11? There are more than 259 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 11
April 11 is the 102nd day of the year 2024. There are 264 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 15th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Raywick, Kentucky 40060 sunrise occured at 07:09 AM and sunset occured at 08:15 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 293 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 11
- 491Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
- 1079Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
- 1241Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
- 1512War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
- 1689William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 1713War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
- 1727Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
- 1775The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
- 1809Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
- 1814The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
- 1856Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
- 1868Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 1876The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- 1881Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- 1888The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1908SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
- 1919The International Labour Organization is founded.
- 1921Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- 1945World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 1951Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
- 1951The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
- 1952The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- 1955The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1957United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- 1961The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 1965The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
- 1968President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
- 1970Apollo 13 is launched.
- 1976The Apple I is created.
- 1979Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- 1981A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- 1987The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- 1990Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
- 1993450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
- 2001The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.
- 2002Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.
- 2002The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2006Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 20072007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
- 20112011 Minsk Metro bombing
Who Were Born On April 11?
- 145Septimius Severus (d. 211)
- 1357John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
- 1374Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
- 1492Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
- 1592John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
- 1721David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
- 1722Christopher Smart, English poet (d. 1771)
- 1755James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
- 1769Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)
- 1770George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
- 1794Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
- 1798Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
- 1810Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
- 1819Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- 1825Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
- 1827Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
- 1852Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
- 1856Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (d. 1903)
- 1859Stefanos Thomopoulos, Greek writer and historian (d. 1939)
- 1862Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948)
- 1862William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1866Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
- 1867Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
- 1869Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1869Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
- 1873Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
- 1876Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)
- 1876Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
- 1887Jamini Roy, Indian/Bengali painter (d. 1972)
- 1889Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
- 1890Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
- 1893Dean Acheson, American statesman (d. 1971)
- 1896Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
- 1899Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d. 1975)
- 1900Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
- 1904Kundan Lal Saigal, Indian singer and actor (d. 1947)
- 1905József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
- 1906Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1907Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
- 1907Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)
- 1908Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (d. 1992)
- 1908Jane Bolin, first African-American woman judge (d. 2007)
- 1908Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
- 1908Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (d. 1997)
- 1910António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
- 1913Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
- 1914Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
- 1914Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- 1916Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
- 1916Howard W. Koch, American film director (d. 2001)
- 1917Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
- 1917David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
- 1918Richard Wainwright, English politician (d. 2003)
- 1920Peter O'Donnell, British writer of mysteries and of comic strips (Modesty Blaise) (d. 2010)
- 1921Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1923George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (d. 1980)
- 1925Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman (d. 1997)
- 1926Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer (d. 2011)
- 1928Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy
- 1930Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
- 1930Nicholas Brady, American political figure, 68th Secretary of Treasury
- 1931Johnny Sheffield, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1931Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
- 1932Joel Grey, American singer and actor
- 1933Tony Brown, American journalist
- 1934Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
- 1935Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
- 1935Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
- 1938Kurt Moll, German bass
- 1938Michael Deaver, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)
- 1939Louise Lasser, American actress
- 1941Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
- 1941Shirley Stelfox, English actress
- 1943Harley Race, American professional wrestler
- 1944John Milius, American director and writer
- 1946Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
- 1946Laurie Faso, American actor and game show host
- 1947Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
- 1947Meshach Taylor, American actor
- 1947Peter Riegert, American actor
- 1947Uli Edel, German film director
- 1949Bernd Eichinger, German film producer (d. 2011)
- 1949Carl Franklin, American actor
- 1950Bill Irwin, American actor
- 1950Tom Hill, English bass guitarist (Geordie)
- 1951Doris Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
- 1951James Patrick Kelly, American author
- 1951Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
- 1952Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter
- 1953Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
- 1953Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1954Abdullah Atalar, Turkish scientist and academic
- 1955Kevin Brady, American politician
- 1955Michael Callen, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1955Micheal Ray Richardson, American basketball player
- 1955Neville Staple, Jamaican musician
- 1958Brynn Hartman, wife and murderer of comedian Phil Hartman (d. 1998)
- 1958Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
- 1959Ana María Polo, Cuban-American lawyer and arbitrator
- 1960Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist and television presenter
- 1961Doug Hopkins, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1962Vincent Gallo, American actor
- 1963Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
- 1963Chris Ferguson, American poker player
- 1964Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
- 1964Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
- 1964Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter
- 1966Lisa Stansfield, English singer
- 1966Mason Reese, American actor
- 1966Steve Scarsone, American baseball player
- 1968Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
- 1969Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
- 1969Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
- 1969Dustin Rhodes, American professional wrestler
- 1970Delroy Pearson, former singer Five Star
- 1970Johnny Messner, American actor
- 1970Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
- 1971Vicellous Reon Shannon, American actor
- 1972Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
- 1972Jason Varitek, American baseball player
- 1973Jennifer Esposito, American actress
- 1974Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
- 1974Anton Glanzelius, Swedish actor
- 1974Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter
- 1974David Jassy, Swedish musician, songwriter, and music producer
- 1974Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actor
- 1974Trot Nixon, American baseball player
- 1974Zöe Lucker, British television actor
- 1975Walid Soliman, Tunisian author
- 1976Kelvim Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1978Brett Claywell, American actor
- 1978Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1978Tom Thacker, Canadian musician
- 1979Chris Gaylor, American drummer
- 1979Josh Server, American actor
- 1979Malcolm Christie, English footballer
- 1979María Elena Swett, Chilean actress
- 1979Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
- 1979Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Canadian beauty pageant winner
- 1979Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician
- 1980Festus Baise, Nigerian footballer
- 1980Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
- 1980Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
- 1981Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
- 1981Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982Danja, American record producer, composer, and songwriter
- 1982Ian Bell, English cricketer
- 1983Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
- 1983Rubén Palazuelos, Spanish football player
- 1984Kelli Garner, American actress
- 1985Will Minson, Australian rules footballer
- 1986Roman Heart, American porn actor
- 1986Stephanie Pratt, American reality TV personality
- 1987Giuseppe Caccavallo, Italian footballer
- 1987Joss Stone, English singer
- 1987Lights, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1988Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- 1990Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1994Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
- 2000Morgan Lily, American actress
- 2002Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress
Who Died On April 11?
- 1034Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 968)
- 1165Stephen IV, King of Hungary (b. 1133)
- 1240Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- 1554Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
- 1612Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
- 1612Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
- 1626Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
- 1712Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
- 1723John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
- 1798Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
- 1856Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
- 1861Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
- 1873Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
- 1890Joseph Merrick, “The Elephant Man” (b. 1862)
- 1894Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
- 1903Gemma Galgani, Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1878)
- 1906Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
- 1906James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
- 1908Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)
- 1916Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
- 1926Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
- 1947Louise Peete, American murderer (b. 1880)
- 1953Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1958Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
- 1962Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist (b. 1900)
- 1967Donald Sangster, Jamaican Prime Minister (b. 1911)
- 1970Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1970John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
- 1977Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1983Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
- 1985Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
- 1985Enver Hoxha, Albanian Stalinist dictator (b. 1908)
- 1987Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
- 1987Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
- 1990Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
- 1991Bruno Hoffmann. German glass harmonica player (b. 1913)
- 1991Walker Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1915)
- 1992Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
- 1992Eve Merriam, American playwright, director, and poet (b. 1916)
- 1996Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
- 2000Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
- 2001Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
- 2001Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
- 2003Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
- 2005André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
- 2005Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
- 2006June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
- 2006Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
- 2007Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
- 2007Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American author (b. 1922)
- 2007Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
- 2007Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2008Merlin German, United States Marine (b. 1985)
- 2009Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (b. 1927)
- 2009Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (b. 1914)
- 2010Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and musician (b. 1948)
- 2011La Esterella, Flemish singer (b. 1919)
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