January 11

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January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 354 days remain until the end of the year (355 in leap years).

Events

• 1055 – Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 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. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
• 1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 1794 – Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
• 1805 – The 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.
• 1878 – Milk is first delivered in bottles.
• 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 1912 – The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
• 1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
• 1919 – Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
• 1935 – Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
• 1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
• 1943 – World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• 1943 – Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
• 1946 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as president.
• 1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
• 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 1957 – Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed in Colorado by gas chamber.
• 1962 – An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
• 1964 – United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
• 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
• 1990 – 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
• 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
• 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• 1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.

Births

• 347 – Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome (d. 395)
• 889 – Abd-ar-Rahman III, Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (d. 961)
• 1322 – Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
• 1359 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
• 1395 – Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
• 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)
• 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
• 1757 – Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
• 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist and physicist (d. 1869)
• 1788 – William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
• 1800 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
• 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
• 1814 – James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
• 1815 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
• 1825 – Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878)
• 1839 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator, philosopher and nationalist (d. 1903)
• 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
• 1843 – Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902)
• 1845 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (d. 1912)
• 1850 – Joseph Charles Arthur, American botanist (d. 1942)
• 1852 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
• 1853 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
• 1856 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1932)
• 1857 – Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886)
• 1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
• 1859 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Thomas Dixon, American playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author (d. 1946)
• 1867 – Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
• 1868 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
• 1872 – George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
• 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)
• 1878 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general who briefly ruled the country (d. 1952)
• 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)
• 1888 – Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Joseph B. Keenan, American political figure (d. 1954)
• 1889 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
• 1890 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954)
• 1890 – Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Laurens Hammond, American inventor (d. 1973)
• 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
• 1903 – Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
• 1905 – Manfred B Lee, American author (d. 1971)
• 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
• 1907 – Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Izler Solomon, American conductor (d. 1987)
• 1911 – Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
• 1916 – Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989)
• 1917 – John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
• 1921 – Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Juanita M. Kreps, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
• 1922 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman
• 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian
• 1924 – Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
• 1924 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
• 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel laureate
• 1925 – Grant Tinker, American television executive
• 1926 – Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 1928 – David L. Wolper, American television producer
• 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian politician
• 1930 – Mitchell Ryan, American actor
• 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian-born American actor
• 1931 – Betty Churcher, Australian museum director and curator
• 1932 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
• 1934 – Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1934 – Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, British computer scientist
• 1935 – Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
• 1935 – Melvyn Hayes, British actor
• 1938 – Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
• 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician
• 1939 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
• 1941 – Gérson, Brazilian footballer
• 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band)
• 1943 – Jim Hightower, American radio host, author, and activist
• 1944 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
• 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician
• 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
• 1945 – Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
• 1946 – Naomi Judd, American singer
• 1946 – Tony Kaye, British piano and organ player (Yes)
• 1946 – John Piper, American theologian
• 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer
• 1949 – Chris Ford, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000)
• 1952 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright
• 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
• 1952 – Michael Forshaw, Australian politician
• 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
• 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player
• 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
• 1958 – Diego León Montoya Sánchez, Colombian crime boss
• 1959 – Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Jasper Fforde, British author
• 1961 – Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Prince of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary
• 1962 – Kim Coles, American actress
• 1962 – Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy
• 1963 – Tracy Caulkins, American Olympic swimmer
• 1963 – Dean Reynolds, English snooker player
• 1965 – Roland Scholten, Dutch Darts Player
• 1966 – Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist
• 1966 – Kelley Law, Canadian curler
• 1967 – Derek Riddell, Scottish actor
• 1968 – Anders Borg, Swedish politician
• 1968 – Tom Dumont, American musician
• 1969 – Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
• 1969 – Kyle Richards, American actress
• 1970 – Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 – Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer
• 1970 – Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, film director, and screenwriter.
• 1970 – Manfredi Beninati, Italian visual artist.
• 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer
• 1971 – Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter, drummer, writer and performer
• 1972 – Marc Blucas, American actor
• 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress
• 1972 – Christian Jacobs, Lead singer of The Aquabats
• 1973 – Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
• 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
• 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
• 1974 – Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
• 1974 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
• 1975 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Dan Luger, English rugby player
• 1976 – Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
• 1977 – Shomari Buchanan, American football player
• 1977 – Nadia Turner, American singer
• 1977 – Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
• 1978 – Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
• 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
• 1978 – Holly Brisley, Australian actress
• 1979 – Darren Lynn Bousman, American film director
• 1979 – Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
• 1980 – Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
• 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player
• 1980 – Deanna Wright, American actress
• 1981 – Jamelia, English singer
• 1981 – Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian)
• 1982 – Tony Allen, American basketball player
• 1982 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
• 1982 – Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
• 1983 – Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
• 1983 – Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
• 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
• 1985 – Newton Faulkner, British singer
• 1985 – Rie fu, Japanese singer
• 1985 – Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
• 1986 – Rachel Riley, British television presenter
• 1987 – Scotty Cranmer, American BMX rider
• 1988 – Daniel Dzufer, Australian rules footballer
• 1989 – Sammy Carlson, American freeskier
• 1993 – Flora Cross, French actress
• 1994 – Daniel Cabrera, Worlds Most Interesting Man

Deaths

• 314 – St. Miltiades
• 705 – Pope John VI
• 802 – St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
• 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
• 844 – Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
• 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
• 1083 – Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. c. 1020)
• 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
• 1495 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
• 1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
• 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)
• 1735 – Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (b. c.1670)
• 1753 – Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
• 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)
• 1867 – Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 – Baron Georges Haussmann, French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris (b. 1809)
• 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 is 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)
• 1944 – Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
• 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
• 1952 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
• 1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
• 1958 – Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 – Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Wally Pipp, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1876)
• 1969 – Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (b. 1881)
• 1975 – Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
• 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)
• 1985 – Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
• 1986 – Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
• 1987 – Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
• 1988 – Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American World War II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
• 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army officer (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Fabrizio de André, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
• 1999 – Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
• 2000 – Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Michael Williams, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex) (b. 1947)
• 2005 – Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
• 2005 – James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
• 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 – Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mount Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
• 2009 – David Vine, British sports broadcaster (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Miep Gies, Dutch Humanitarian, discoverer of Anne Frank's diary (b. 1909)
• 2010 – Mick Green, British guitarist (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (b. 1905)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day
  • Leucius of Brindisi (Roman Catholic)
  • Paulinus II of Aquileia
  • Theodosius the Cenobiarch
  • January 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Eugenio Maria de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)
• First day of Carmentalia, in honor of Carmenta. (Roman Empire)
• Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)
• Republic Day (Albania)
• Unity Day, birthday of King Prithvi Narayan Shah on 27th day of the |Nepali month of Poush, which may fall on January 11. (Nepal)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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