January 11
January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 354 days remaining (355 in
leap years).
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Events
\n* Tony Stott of world war II was born in 1904\n* 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.\n* 1158 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.\n* 1569 - First recorded lottery in England.\n* 1571 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.\n* 1693 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.\n* 1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.\n* 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moonss of Uranus.\n* 1805 - Michigan Territory is created.\n* 1861 - Alabama secedes from the United States.\n* 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.\n* 1867 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.\n* 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.\n* 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.\n* 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.\n* 1922 - First successful treatment with insulin against diabetes.\n* 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.\n* 1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.\n* 1938 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.\n* 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.\n* 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.\n* 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.\n* 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the people's republic of Albania with himself as dictator.\n* 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.\n* 1960 - Chad declares its independence.\n* 1962 - Eruption of the volcano Huascaran in Peru; 4000 deaths.\n* 1963 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.\n* 1964 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government.\n* 1972 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.\n* 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial.\n* 1980 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.\n* 1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.\n* 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)\n* 1757 - Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer (d. 1831)\n* 1807 - Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University (d. 1874)\n* 1815 - John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)\n* 1856 - Christian Sinding, composer (d. 1941)\n* 1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, founder of Selfridges (d. 1947)\n* 1859 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman (d. 1925)\n* 1860 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist (d. 1884)\n* 1876 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (d. 1971)\n* 1885 - Alice Paul, women's rights activist\n* 1899 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991)\n* 1903 - Alan Paton, writer (d. 1988)\n* 1906 - Albert Hofmann, chemist, discoverer of LSD effects\n* 1923 - Jacqueline Maillan, French actress\n* 1924 - Slim Harpo, musician (d. 1970)\n* 1925 - Grant Tinker, television executive\n* 1925 - William Styron, writer\n* 1926 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)\n* 1928 - David L. Wolper, producer\n* 1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor\n* 1931 - James Earl Jones, actor \n* 1934 - Jean Chrétien, twentieth Prime Minister of Canada\n* 1938 - Arthur Scargill British trade union leader.\n* 1942 - Clarence Clemens, musician (E Street Band)\n* 1943 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author\n* 1946 - Naomi Judd, country music singer\n* 1947 - Bryan Robson, football player\n* 1952 - Lee Ritenour, musician, composer\n* 1952 - Ben Crenshaw, golfer\n* 1960 - Stanley Tucci, actor\n* 1963 - Dean Reynolds, English snooker player\n* 1971 - Mary J. Blige, pop singer\n* 1973 - Rahul Dravid, cricketer, India\n* 1977 - Shomari Buchanan, wide receiver of the Corpus Christi Hammerheads from the IFL
Deaths
- 314 - St. Miltiades, Pope\n* 705 - John VI, Pope\n* 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, (b. c. 1000)\n* 1857 - Eli Smith, Christian missionary and Bible translator (b. 1801)\n* 1928 - Thomas Hardy, writer (b. 1840)\n* 1958 - Edna Purviance, actress (b. 1895)\n* 1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor (b. 1901)\n* 1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner\n* 1970 - Richmal Crompton, author (b. 1890)\n* 1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist, (b. 1894)\n* 1988 - Pappy Boyington, aviator\n* 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, architect (b. 1914)
Holidays and observances
- Albania - Republic Day (1946)\n* Chad - Independence Day (1960)\n* Japan - Kagami-Biraki (Rice Cakes Festival)\n* Nepal - Unity Day\n* Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmen\n* Feast of the Baptism of Jesus Christ
\nJanuary 10 - January 12 - December 11 - February 11 -- listing of all days
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