January 11th Events |
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January 11th, 1998 (January 11 1998) | Event | Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed. | |
January 11th, 1996 (January 11 1996) | Event | Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
January 11th, 1994 (January 11 1994) | Event | The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein. | |
January 11th, 1990 (January 11 1990) | Event | 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence. | |
January 11th, 1986 (January 11 1986) | Event | The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened. | |
January 11th, 1972 (January 11 1972) | Event | East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. | |
January 11th, 1964 (January 11 1964) | Event | United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government. | |
January 11th, 1962 (January 11 1962) | Event | An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths. | |
January 11th, 1957 (January 11 1957) | Event | The African Convention is founded in Dakar. | |
January 11th, 1957 (January 11 1957) | Event | Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber. | |
January 11th, 1949 (January 11 1949) | Event | First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California. | |
January 11th, 1946 (January 11 1946) | Event | Enver Hoxha declares the People s Republic of Albania with himself as dictator. | |
January 11th, 1943 (January 11 1943) | Event | The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. | |
January 11th, 1942 (January 11 1942) | Event | Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies. | |
January 11th, 1942 (January 11 1942) | Event | The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur. | |
January 11th, 1935 (January 11 1935) | Event | Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. | |
January 11th, 1923 (January 11 1923) | Event | Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its reparation payments. | |
January 11th, 1922 (January 11 1922) | Event | First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient. | |
January 11th, 1919 (January 11 1919) | Event | Romania annexes Transylvania. | |
January 11th, 1917 (January 11 1917) | Event | The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage. | |
January 11th, 1912 (January 11 1912) | Event | The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts. | |
January 11th, 1908 (January 11 1908) | Event | Grand Canyon National Monument is created. | |
January 11th, 1879 (January 11 1879) | Event | The Anglo-Zulu War begins. | |
January 11th, 1867 (January 11 1867) | Event | Benito Juarez becomes the Mexican president again. | Benito Juarez Quotes |
January 11th, 1863 (January 11 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas PostGeneral John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union. | |
January 11th, 1861 (January 11 1861) | Event | Alabama secedes from the United States. | |
January 11th, 1805 (January 11 1805) | Event | The Michigan Territory is created. | |
January 11th, 1794 (January 11 1794) | Event | 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. | |
January 11th, 1787 (January 11 1787) | Event | William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. | |
January 11th, 1779 (January 11 1779) | Event | Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur. | |
January 11th, 1759 (January 11 1759) | Event | In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. | |
January 11th, 1693 (January 11 1693) | Event | Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta. | |
January 11th, 1571 (January 11 1571) | Event | Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion. | |
January 11th, 1569 (January 11 1569) | Event | First recorded lottery in England. | |
January 11th, 1158 (January 11 1158) | Event | Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia. | |
January 11th, 1055 (January 11 1055) | Event | Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. | |