January 11

January 11

January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 354 days remaining (355 in leap years).

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

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 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moonss of Uranus.
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 Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1867 - Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
1922 - First successful treatment with insulin against diabetes.
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 US national bank.
1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
1942 - The Japanese 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.
1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
1960 - Chad declares its independence.
1962 - Eruption of the volcano Huascaran in Peru; 4000 deaths.
1963 - The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
1964 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government.
1972 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.
1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial.
1980 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

Births

1757 - Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury, (d. 1804)
1757 - Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer, (d. 1831)
1815 - John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada, (d. 1891)
1856 - Christian Sinding, composer, (d. 1941)
1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge founder of Selfridges, (d. 1947)
1859 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman, (d. 1925)
1860 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist, (d. 1884)
1885 - Alice Paul, women's rights activist
1899 - Eva LeGallienne, actress, (d. 1991)
1903 - Alan Paton, writer, (d. 1988)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, chemist, discoverer of LSD effects
1923 - Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
1924 - Slim Harpo, musician, (d. 1970)
1925 - Grant Tinker, television executive
1925 - William Styron, writer
1926 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut, (d. 1998)
1928 - David L. Wolper, producer
1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
1931 - James Earl Jones, actor
1934 - Jean Chrétien, twentieth Prime Minister of Canada
1938 - Arthur Scargill British trade union leader.
1942 - Clarence Clemens, musician (E Street Band)
1943 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
1946 - Naomi Judd, country music singer
1947 - Bryan Robson, football player
1952 - Lee Ritenour, musician, composer
1952 - Ben Crenshaw, golfer
1960 - Stanley Tucci, actor
1971 - Mary J. Blige, pop singer
1973 - Rahul Dravid, cricketer, India

Deaths

314 - St. Miltiades, Pope
705 - John VI, Pope
1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, (b. c. 1000)
1928 - Thomas Hardy, writer, (b. 1840)
1958 - Edna Purviance, actress, (b. 1895)
1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor, (b. 1901)
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner
1970 - Richmal Crompton, author, (b. 1890)
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist, (b. 1894)
1988 - Pappy Boyington, aviator
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, architect, (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

Albania - Republic Day (1946)
Chad - Independence Day (1960)
Japan - Kagami-Biraki (Rice Cakes Festival)
Nepal - Unity Day
Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmen
Feast of the Baptism of Jesus Christ

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