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January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 354 days remaining (355 in
leap years ).
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Notes 6 External links
Events 314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
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.
1779 - Ching-Thang Khomba crowned King of Manipur
1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon , two moons 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 - Lawrence textile 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.[citation needed ] 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 .
1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar .
1962 - Eruption of the Huascaran volcano in Peru ; 4,000 deaths.
1963 - Please Please Me is released in the United Kingdom by The Beatles , with Ask Me Why as the B-side . It would be the first Beatles' single to reach #1 (on most record charts ) in the UK.
1963 - The Whisky a Go Go 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 .
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 .
1986 - The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland , Australia is officially opened.
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 .
1993 - WWE's flagship broadcast, WWE Monday Night RAW airs for the first time from the famous Manhattan Center on the USA Network .
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 .
2007 - Corporal Jason Dunham of New York is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush in recognition of actions performed during Operation Iraqi Freedom .
2007 - Author J.K. Rowling completed writing the final book in her best-selling Harry Potter series in the Balmoral Hotel , entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .
Births 1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380 )
1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393 )
1503 - Parmigianino , 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
1907 - Pierre Mendès-France , French politician (d. 1982 )
1908 - Lionel Stander , American actor (d. 1994 )
1910 - Nikos Kavvadias , Greek poet and writer (d. 1975 )
1911 - Zenko Suzuki , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004 )
1916 - Bernard Blier , French actor (d. 1989 )
1917 - John Robarts , Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (d. 1982 )
1921 - Juanita M. Kreps , former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1921 - Gory Guerrero , professional wrestler (d. 1990 )
1923 - Carroll Shelby , American automobile designer
1924 - Roger Guillemin , French neuroendocrinologist , Nobel laureate
1924 - Sam B. Hall , American politician (d. 1994 )
1924 - Slim Harpo , American musician (d. 1970 )
1924 - Don Cherry , American singer and golfer
1925 - Grant Tinker , American television executive
1926 - Lev Demin , Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998 )
1928 - David L. Wolper , American television producer
1930 - Rod Taylor , Australian actor
1932 - Alfonso Arau , Mexican film director
1934 - Jean Chrétien , 20th Prime Minister of Canada
1938 - Fischer Black , American economist (d. 1995 )
1938 - Arthur Scargill , Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
1939 - Anne Heggtveit , Canadian alpine skier
1941 - Gérson , Brazilian footballer
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
1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai , Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989 )
1945 - Christine Kaufmann , German-Austrian actress
1946 - Naomi Judd , American singer
1946 - Tony Kaye , British keyboard player (Yes )
1952 - Ben Crenshaw , American golfer
1952 - Lee Ritenour , American musician and composer
1953 - John Sessions , Scottish actor
1956 - Robert Earl Keen , American singer
1957 - Bryan Robson , English footballer and manager
1958 - Vicki Peterson , American musician (The Bangles )
1959 - Rob Ramage , Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Jasper Fforde , British author
1962 - Susan Lindauer , American peace activist and accused spy
1963 - Dean Reynolds , English snooker player
1965 - Andrew Stanton , American animated films director, and screenwriter.
1966 - Marc Acito , American novelist and humorist
1966 - Kelley Law , Canadian curler
1968 - Tom Dumont , American musician
1969 - Manny Acta , Dominican baseball player
1969 - Kyle Richards , American actress
1970 - Mary J. Blige , American singer
1970 - Chris Jent , American basketball player and coach
1972 - Marc Blucas , American actor
1972 - Amanda Peet , American actress
1972 - Luís Delgado , Angolan footballer
1973 - Rahul Dravid , Indian cricketer
1973 - Joanna Brodzik , Polish actress
1974 - Jens Nowotny , German footballer
1974 - Cody McKay , Canadian baseball player
1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick , American ice hockey player
1976 - Efthimios Rentzias , Greek basketball player
1977 - Shomari Buchanan , American football player
1977 - Nadia Turner , American singer
1978 - Emile Heskey , English footballer
1978 - Michael Duff , Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Siti Nurhaliza , Malaysian singer
1980 - Mike Williams , American football player
1980 - Deanna Wright , American actress
1981 - Jamelia , English singer
1982 - Son Ye-jin , South Korean actress
1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson , British actor and singer
1983 - Adrian Sutil , German racing driver
1984 - Chris Wang , American Worship Leader
1985 - Rie fu , Japanese singer
1987 - Scotty Cranmer , American professional BMX rider
Deaths 314 - St. Miltiades
705 - Pope John VI
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
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 )
1836 - John Molson , Canadian brewer (b. 1763 )
1843 - Francis Scott Key , American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (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 )
1914 - Carl Jacobsen , Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842 )
1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868 )
1928 - Thomas Hardy , English writer (b. 1840 )
1931 - James Milton Carroll , American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852 )
1941 - Emanuel Lasker , German chess player (b. 1868 )
1954 - Oscar Straus , Austrian composer (b. 1870 )
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. 1917 )
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 )
1988 - Florence Knapp , American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873 )
1991 - Carl David Anderson , American physicist, Nobel 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 , American baseball player (b. 1920 )
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun , English architect (b. 1914 )
2002 - Henri Verneuil , French playwright and film director (b. 1920 )
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 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon ), German DJ (b. 1966 )
2006 - Nixzmary Brown , American child abuse victim (b. 1998 )
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson , American author (b. 1932 )
2007 - Solveig Dommartin , French-German actress (b. 1961 )
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