January 11 Information

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

Events

• 630 – Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
• 1055 – Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1158 – Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
• 1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
• 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
• 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.
• 1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encountered and sank the USS Hatteras (1861) off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
• 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 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.
• 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• 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.
• 1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2007 – China conducts the first successful anti-satellite missile test of any nation since 1985.

Births

• 347 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I "the Great" (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 educator (d. 1684)
• 1638 – Nicolas Steno, Danish scientist (d. 1686)
• 1671 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
• 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevis born American Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher; 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, American poet (d. 1878)
• 1839 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator 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 and legislator (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 (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 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Warsaw-born American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
• 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 (d. 1955)
• 1916 – Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989)
• 1917 – John Robarts, Canadian politician (d. 1982)
• 1921 – Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Juanita M. Kreps, American economist, educator, & civil servant; 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian
• 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman
• 1924 – Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
• 1924 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
• 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 (d.2010)
• 1928 – Mitchell Ryan, American actor
• 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian politician
• 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian-born American actor
• 1931 – Betty Churcher, Australian museum director and curator
• 1932 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
• 1934 – Jean Chrétien, Canadian statesman, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1934 – Sir C. A. R. Hoare, British computer scientist
• 1935 – Melvyn Hayes, British actor
• 1935 – Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
• 1938 – Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
• 1938 – Vladimir Krpan, Croatian pianist
• 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician
• 1938 – John August Swanson, American artist
• 1939 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
• 1941 – Gérson, Brazilian footballer
• 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band) (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 2010)
• 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
• 1946 – Naomi Judd, American singer
• 1946 – Tony Kaye, British piano and organ player (Yes)
• 1946 – John Piper, American theologian
• 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German football player and manager
• 1948 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (the 54^th Yokozuna) and professional wrestler
• 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 – Diana Gabaldon, American author
• 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American musician and composer
• 1953 – John Sessions, Scottish actor
• 1956 – Robert Earl Keen, American singer
• 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player
• 1957 – Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
• 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
• 1958 – Diego León Montoya Sánchez, Colombian organized crime figure
• 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 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 – Manfredi Beninati, Italian visual artist.
• 1970 – Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 – Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, film director, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer
• 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer
• 1971 – Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1972 – Marc Blucas, American actor
• 1972 – Christian Jacobs, American singer (The Aquabats)
• 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress
• 1973 – Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
• 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
• 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
• 1974 – Roman Görtz, German footballer
• 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 – Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
• 1977 – Nadia Turner, American singer
• 1978 – Holly Brisley, Australian actress
• 1978 – Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
• 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
• 1979 – Darren Lynn Bousman, American film director
• 1979 – Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
• 1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
• 1980 – Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
• 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player
• 1980 – Deanna Wright, American actress
• 1981 – Jamelia, English singer
• 1981 – Tom Meighan, English singer (Kasabian)
• 1982 – Tony Allen, American basketball player
• 1982 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
• 1982 – Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
• 1983 – Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
• 1983 – Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
• 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
• 1984 – Kevin Boss, American football player
• 1985 – Newton Faulkner, British singer
• 1985 – Rie fu, Japanese singer
• 1985 – Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
• 1985 – Aaron Porter, British politician
• 1985 – Kevin Rudolf, American singer, songwriter, and producer
• 1986 – Rachel Riley, British television presenter
• 1987 – Scotty Cranmer, American BMX rider
• 1987 – Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Daniel Dzufer, Australian rules footballer
• 1988 – Fuska, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Sammy Carlson, American freeskier
• 1993 – Flora Cross, French actress
• 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter

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-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (b. 1809)
• 1901 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
• 1902 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
• 1904 – William Sawyer, Canadian politician (b. 1815)
• 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)
• 1920 – Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian educator, philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844)
• 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)
• 1957 – Rose Sutro, American duo-pianist with her sister Ottilie (b. 1870)
• 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 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
• 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)
• 1989 – Ray Moore, Radio 2 DJ (b. 1942)
• 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)
• 1995 – Theodor Wisch, German general (SS) (b. 1907)
• 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 – Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Michael Williams, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
• 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 – Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
• 2006 – Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
• 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 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the first 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)
• Earliest day on which Triodion can fall, while February 14 is the latest; celebrated 70 days before Easter. (Eastern Orthodox)
• Eugenio Maria de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)
• First day of Carmentalia, in honor of Carmenta. (Roman Empire)
• Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)
• Kagami Biraki (Japan)
• Republic Day (Albania)

External links

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

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