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

• 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 moons 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 Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 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 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.
• 1946  – Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
• 1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
• 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 US 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 Midwestern United States.
• 1990 – 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
• 1992 – Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
• 1996 – Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
• 2005 – Idina Menzel is replaced with Shoshana Bean in Broadway's hit musical, Wicked.

Births

• 1322 – Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders (d. 1380)
• 1757 – Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
• 1757  – Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
• 1800 – Nat Turner, American slave (d. 1831)
• 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
• 1815 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
• 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)
• 1860 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian artist (d. 1884)
• 1870 – Alice Hegan Rice, American writer (d. 1942)
• 1875 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956)
• 1876 – Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1885 – Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
• 1903 – Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD effects
• 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
• 1923  – Carroll Shelby, American automobile designer
• 1924 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
• 1924  – Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
• 1925 – Grant Tinker, television executive
• 1925  – William Styron, American writer
• 1926 – Lev Demin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 1928 – David L. Wolper, producer
• 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor
• 1934 – Jean Chrétien, twentieth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1934  – Judith Campbell Exner, John F. Kennedy confidante (d. 1999)
• 1938 – Arthur Scargill British trade union leader.
• 1942 – Clarence Clemons, musician (E Street Band)
• 1942  – Joel Zwick, American film director
• 1943 – Jim Hightower, American radio host, author
• 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician
• 1946 – Naomi Judd, American country music singer
• 1946  – John Piper, American theologian
• 1952 – Lee Ritenour, musician, composer
• 1952  – Ben Crenshaw, golfer
• 1956 – Robert Earl Keen, American singer
• 1957 – Bryan Robson, English football player and manager
• 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American musician
• 1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor
• 1962 – Susan Lindauer, American peace activist, accused spy
• 1963 – Dean Reynolds, English snooker player
• 1968 – Tom Dumont, American musician
• 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American pop singer
• 1971  – Tom Rowlands, English musician (The Chemical Brothers)
• 1972 – Marc Blucas, American actor
• 1972  – Amanda Peet, American actress
• 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
• 1977 – Shomari Buchanan, American football player
• 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player

Deaths

• 314 – St. Miltiades
• 705 – John VI
• 812 – Stauracius, Byzantine Emperor
• 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor
• 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
• 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (b. 1637)
• 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer (b. 1779)
• 1857 – Eli Smith, Christian missionary and Bible translator (b. 1801)
• 1901 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
• 1902 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
• 1905 – Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
• 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
• 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b.1868)
• 1958 – Edna Purviance, actress (b. 1895)
• 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner
• 1970 – Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Jack Soo, American actor
• 1980 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Beulah Bondi, American actress
• 1983 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
• 1988 – Pappy Boyington, American aviator (b. 1912)
• 1998  – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player
• 2000  – Ivan Combe, American inventor
• 2001 – Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Mickey Finn, drummer (T. Rex)
• 2003  – Maurice Pialat, French movie director (b. 1925)
• 2003  – Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Spencer Dryden, drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
• 2005  – James Griffin, musician (Bread)
• 2005  – Miriam Hyde, Australian composer

Holidays and observances

• Albania – Republic Day (1946)
• 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

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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