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is the
11th
day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 354 days remaining (355 in
leap year
s).
January 11
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays and observances
Notes
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Events
314
-
Pope Miltiades
ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
532
-
Nika riots
in
Constantinople
.
1158
-
Vladislav II
becomes King of
Bohemia
.
1569
- First recorded
lottery
in
England
.
1571
- Austrian nobility is granted
freedom of religion
.
1693
- Mt.
Etna
erupts in
Sicily
,
Italy
.
1759
- In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, the first American
life insurance
company is incorporated.
1787
-
William Herschel
discovers
Titania
and
Oberon
, two
moon
s of
Uranus
.
1794
- Robert Forsythe, a
US Marshal
was killed in
Augusta
,
Georgia
when trying to serve court papers, the first
US Marshal
to die in action.
1805
-
Michigan
Territory is created.
1861
-
Alabama
secedes from the
United States
.
1863
-
American Civil War
:
Battle of Arkansas Post
- General
John McClernand
and Admiral
David Dixon Porter
capture the
Arkansas River
for the
Union
.
1867
-
Benito Juárez
becomes
Mexican
president again.
1879
-
Anglo-Zulu War
begins.
1880
- Total
solar eclipse
blackens the sky of
San Francisco
one day after the funeral of
Emperor Norton
.
1902
-
Popular Mechanics
magazine was published for the first time.
1908
-
Grand Canyon National Monument
is created.
1912
-
Bread and Roses Strike
begins in
Lawrence, Massachusetts
.
1919
-
Romania
annexes
Transylvania
.
1922
- First use of
insulin
to treat
diabetes
in a human patient.
1923
- Troops from
France
and
Belgium
occupy the
Ruhr area
to force
Germany
to pay its reparation payments.
1935
-
Amelia Earhart
is the first woman to fly solo from
Hawaii
to
California
.
1938
-
Frances Moulton
is the first woman to become president of a U.S. national bank.
1942
-
Japan
declares war on the
Netherlands
and invades the
Netherlands East Indies
.
1942 - The
Japan
ese capture
Kuala Lumpur
.
1943
- The
United States
and
United Kingdom
give up territorial rights in
China
.
1946
-
Enver Hoxha
declares the
People's Republic
of
Albania
with himself as dictator.
1946 -
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
's ashes go back to
Colombia
.
1949
- First recorded case of
snow
fall in
Los Angeles, California
.
1957
- The
African Convention
is founded in
Dakar
.
1960
-
Chad
declares its independence.
1962
- Eruption of the
Huascaran
volcano in
Peru
; 4,000 deaths.
1963
- The
Whisky a Go Go
night club in Los Angeles, the first
disco
in the USA, is opened.
1964
-
United States Surgeon General
Luther Leonidas Terry
reports smoking may be hazardous to health. First such statement from U.S. government.
1972
-
East Pakistan
becomes
Bangladesh
.
1973
- Beginning of the
Watergate
burglars trial.
1974
- The world's first surviving set of
sextuplets
are born to
Susan Rosenkowitz
in
Cape Town
,
South Africa
.
1980
-
Nigel Short
, 14, is the youngest
chess
player to be awarded the degree of
International Master
.
1982
- A cold snap sends temperatures to record lows in dozens of
cities
throughout the
Midwest
ern
United States
.
1986
- The
Gateway Bridge, Brisbane
in
Queensland
,
Australia
is officially opened.
1990
- 300,000 march in favor of
Lithuania
n independence.
1992
-
Paul Simon
is the first major artist to tour
South Africa
after the end of the
cultural boycott
.
1994
-
Irish
Government announces the end of a 15-year
broadcasting ban
on the
IRA
and its political arm
Sinn Féin
1995
- The
WB Television Network
begins operations.
1996
-
Haiti
becomes a member of the
Berne Convention
copyright
treaty
.
1998
-
Sidi-Hamed massacre
in
Algeria
; over 100 people killed.
2001
- The
Federal Trade Commission
approved the
merger
of
AOL
and
Time Warner
to form
AOL Time Warner
.
2003
-
Illinois
governor
George H. Ryan
announces decision to grant clemency to all inmates of
death row
.
2005
-
Black Tuesday
bushfires swept across the southern
Eyre Peninsula
in
South Australia
.
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Births
1322
-
Emperor Komyo of Japan
(d.
1380
)
1359
-
Emperor Go-En'yu
of Japan (d.
1393
)
1503
-
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola
, Italian artist (d.
1540
)
1591
-
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
, English Civil War general (d.
1646
)
1630
-
John Rogers
, American President of Harvard in the US (d.
1684
)
1671
-
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
, French military leader (d.
1745
)
1723
-
Prithvi Narayan Shah
, began the unification of modern
Nepal
(d.
1774
)
1755
-
Alexander Hamilton
, 1st
United States Secretary of the Treasury
(d.
1804
)
1757
-
Samuel Bentham
, English mechanical engineer (d.
1831
)
1800
-
Anyos Jedlik
, Hungarian physicist (d.
1895
)
1807
-
Ezra Cornell
, American businessman and university founder (d.
1874
)
1815
-
John A. Macdonald
, 1st
Prime Minister of Canada
(d.
1891
)
1842
-
William James
, American
psychologist
and
philosopher
(d.
1910
)
1845
-
Albert Victor Bäcklund
, Swedish physicist (d.
1912
)
1852
-
Konstantin Fehrenbach
,
Chancellor of Germany
(d.
1926
)
1856
-
Christian Sinding
, Norwegian composer (d.
1941
)
1858
-
Harry Gordon Selfridge
, American retailer (d.
1947
)
1859
- Lord
George Nathaniel Curzon
, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d.
1925
)
1868
-
Cai Yuanpei
, Chinese educator (d.
1940
)
1873
-
John Callan O'Laughlin
, American political and military figure and journalist (d.
1949
)
1875
-
Reinhold Glière
, Russian composer (d.
1956
)
1876
-
Elmer Flick
, American baseball player (d.
1971
)
1885
-
Jack Hoxie
, American actor, rodeo performer (d.
1965
)
1885 -
Alice Paul
, American women's rights activist (d.
1977
)
1887
-
Aldo Leopold
, American ecologist (d.
1948
)
1890
-
Oswald de Andrade
, Brazilian author (d.
1954
)
1897
-
August Heissmeyer
, German SS officer (d.
1979
)
1902
-
Maurice Duruflé
, French composer (d.
1986
)
1903
-
Alan Paton
, South African writer (d.
1988
)
1906
-
Albert Hofmann
, Swiss chemist
1908
-
Lionel Stander
, American actor (d.
1994
)
1911
-
Zenko Suzuki
,
Prime Minister of Japan
(d.
2004
)
1921
-
Juanita M. Kreps
, former
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce
1921 -
Gory Guerrero
, wrestler (d.
1990
)
1923
-
Carroll Shelby
, American automobile designer
1924
-
Roger Guillemin
, French neuroendocrinologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1924 -
Sam B. Hall
, American politician (d.
1994
)
1924 -
Slim Harpo
, American musician (d.
1970
)
1925
-
Grant Tinker
, American television executive
1926
-
Lev Demin
, cosmonaut (d.
1998
)
1930
-
Rod Taylor
, Australian actor
1932
-
Alfonso Arau
, Mexican film director
1934
-
Jean Chrétien
, 12th
Prime Minister of Canada
1938
-
Arthur Scargill
, British labor leader
1941
-
Gérson
, Brazilian football player
1942
-
Clarence Clemons
, American musician (
E Street Band
)
1943
-
Jim Hightower
, American radio host and author
1944
-
John Piper
, American theologian
1944 -
Shibu Soren
, Indian politician
1946
-
Naomi Judd
, American singer
1946 -
Tony Kaye
, British keyboard player (
Yes
)
1952
-
Ben Crenshaw
, American golfer
1952 -
Lee Ritenour
, musician and composer
1956
-
Robert Earl Keen
, American singer
1957
-
Bryan Robson
, English footballer and manager
1958
-
Vicki Peterson
, American musician
1961
-
Jasper Fforde
, British author
1962
-
Susan Lindauer
, American peace activist and accused spy
1963
-
Dean Reynolds
, English snooker player
1966
-
Marc Acito
, American novelist and humorist
1966 -
Kelley Law
, Canadian curler
1968
-
Tom Dumont
, American musician
1969
-
Manny Acta
, Baseball player
1969 -
Kyle Richards
, American actress
1970
-
Chris Jent
, American basketball player and coach
1971
-
Mary J. Blige
, American singer
1972
-
Marc Blucas
, American actor
1972 -
Amanda Peet
, American actress
1972 -
Luís Delgado
, Angolan footballer
1973
-
Rahul Dravid
, Indian cricketer
1974
-
Jens Nowotny
, German footballer
1974 -
Cody McKay
, baseball player
1977
-
Shomari Buchanan
, American football player
1978
-
Emile Heskey
, English footballer
1979
-
Siti Nurhaliza
, Malaysian singer
1979 -
Michael Duff
, Northern Irish footballer
1980
-
Mike Williams
, American football player
1980
-
Deanna Wright
, American actress
1987
-
Scotty Cranmer
, American professional BMX rider
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Deaths
314
-
St. Miltiades
705
-
John VI
812
-
Stauracius
,
Byzantine Emperor
844
-
Michael I Rhangabes
, Byzantine Emperor
1055
-
Constantine IX
Monomachos,
Byzantine Emperor
1494
-
Domenico Ghirlandaio
, Italian artist (b.
1449
)
1495
-
Pedro González de Mendoza
, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b.
1428
)
1641
-
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar
, Spanish poet (b.
1583
)
1696
-
Charles Albanel
, French missionary explorer in Canada (b.
1616
)
1703
-
Johann Georg Graevius
, German classical scholar and critic (b.
1632
)
1713
-
Pierre Jurieu
, French protestant leader (b.
1637
)
1762
-
Louis-François Roubiliac
, French sculptor (b.
1695
)
1763
-
Caspar Abel
, German theologian, historian, and poet (b.
1676
)
1771
-
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
, French writer (b.
1704
)
1791
-
William Williams Pantycelyn
, Welsh hymnist (b.
1717
)
1801
-
Domenico Cimarosa
, Italian composer (b.
1749
)
1843
-
Francis Scott Key
, American lawyer (b.
1779
)
1882
-
Theodor Schwann
, German physiologist (b.
1810
)
1901
-
Vasily Kalinnikov
, Russian composer (b.
1866
)
1902
-
Johnny Briggs
, English cricketer (b.
1862
)
1905
-
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
, Hasidic rabbi (b.
1847
)
1923
- King
Constantine I of Greece
(b.
1868
)
1928
-
Thomas Hardy
, English writer (b.
1840
)
1931
-
James Milton Carroll
, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b.
1852
)
1941
-
Emanuel Lasker
, German chess player (b.
1868
)
1958
-
Edna Purviance
, American actress (b.
1895
)
1966
-
Alberto Giacometti
, Swiss sculptor (b.
1901
)
1966 -
Hannes Kolehmainen
, Finnish runner (b.
1889
)
1968
-
Isidor Isaac Rabi
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1898
)
1970
-
Richmal Crompton
, British author (b.
1890
)
1978
-
Ibn-e-Insha
, Pakistani humorist and
Urdu
poet (b.
1927
)
1979
-
Jack Soo
, American actor (b.
1916
)
1980
-
Barbara Pym
, English novelist (b.
1913
)
1981
-
Beulah Bondi
, American actress (b.
1888
)
1983
-
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla
, Indian industrialist and educator (b.
1894
)
1988
-
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
, American WW II Marine aviator (b.
1912
)
1991
-
Carl David Anderson
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1905
)
1998
-
Klaus Tennstedt
, German conductor (b.
1926
)
1999
-
Fabrizio de André
, Italian singer (b.
1940
)
1999 -
Brian Moore
, Irish-born writer (b.
1921
)
2000
-
Ivan Combe
, American inventor (b.
1911
)
2000 -
Bob Lemon
, baseball player (b.
1920
)
2001
- Sir
Denys Lasdun
, English architect (b.
1914
)
2003
-
Mickey Finn
, English drummer (
T. Rex
) (b.
1947
)
2003 -
Maurice Pialat
, French actor and director (b.
1925
)
2003 -
Richard Simmons
, American actor (b.
1913
)
2005
-
Spencer Dryden
, American drummer (
Jefferson Airplane
) (b.
1938
)
2005 -
James Griffin
, American musician (
Bread
) (b.
1943
)
2005 -
Miriam Hyde
, Australian composer (b.
1913
)
2005 -
Fabrizio Meoni
Italian motorcyclist (b.
1957
).
2006
-
Nixzmary Brown
,
child abuse
icon (b.
1999
)
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Holidays and observances
Albania
-
Republic Day
(
1946
)
Morocco
-
Independence Resistance Day
Nepal
-
Unity Day
Roman Empire
- First day of
Carmentalia
in honor of
Carmenta
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