SomeFacts | December 11

On this day - December 11

220 — Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao ...

361 — Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.

861 — Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the ...

969 — Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his ...

1041 — Michael V, adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium, is ...

1239 — Treaty of Benavente: the heiresses of the Kingdom of León ...

1282 — Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native ...

1602 — A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles ...

1640 — The Root and Branch petition, signed by 15,000 Londoners ...

1675 — Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western ...

1688 — Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee ...

1792 — French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial ...

1815 — The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a ...

1816 — Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg begins as the ...

1868 — Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat the Paraguayan Army at ...

1899 — Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers ...

1901 — Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio ...

1905 — A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of ...

1907 — The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely ...

1913 — More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, ...

1917 — World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem ...

1920 — Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ...

1925 — Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the ...

1927 — Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in ...

1931 — Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament ...

1934 — Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his ...

1936 — Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of ...

1937 — Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

1941 — World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first ...

1941 — World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.

1941 — World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United ...

1946 — The United Nations International Children's Emergency ...

1948 — Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly ...

1958 — French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government ...

1960 — French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in ...

1962 — Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be ...

1964 — Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in ...

1972 — Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land ...

1978 — The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese ...

1980 — The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...

1981 — El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an ...

1988 — A Soviet Air Force Il-76 aircraft crashes while participating ...

1990 — Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog ...

1990 — Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, ...

1993 — A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses ...

1994 — A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route ...

1994 — First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders ...

1997 — The Kyoto Protocol, an agreement committing countries to ...

1998 — Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, ...

1999 — SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on ...

2001 — China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).

2005 — Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate ...

2005 — The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, ...

2006 — Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, launches a ...

2006 — The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of ...

2007 — Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, ...

2008 — Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in ...

2009 — Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit ...

2012 — At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in ...

2017 — New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates ...

2019 — The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum ...

2020 — The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use ...