January 11
January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 354 days remaining (355 in leap years). 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 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 Capetown, 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.
BirthsUp to 1899 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, founder of Cornell University (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) 1876 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971) 1885 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977) 1899 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991)
1900 to 1999 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. Miltiades705 - John VI812 - Stauracius, Byzantine emperor1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine emperor1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer who composed "The Star-Spangled Banner" (b. 1779)1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (b. 1637)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, Second Rebbe of the Ger Hasidim. (b. 1847)1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chessplayer (World Champion 1894-1921, b.1868)1958 - Edna Purviance, actress (b. 1895)1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor (b. 1901)1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)1979 - Jack Soo, American actor1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist (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 inventor2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)2003 - Mickey Finn, drummer in T. Rex 2003 - Maurice Pialat, French movie director (b. 1925) 2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)2005 - Spencer Dryden, drummer for the band Jefferson Airplane (b. 1938) 2005 - James Griffin, member of 1970s group Bread 2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
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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