Historical Events
11 Jan 1055
Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
11 Jan 1558
Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
11 Jan 1569
1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Pauls Cathedral
11 Jan 1571
Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
11 Jan 1599
Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java in modern day Indonesia with 1 million pounds of pepper and cloves and a further half a ship full of nutmeg mace and cinnamon
11 Jan 1693
Mt Etna in Sicily erupts with estimated 7.4 magnitude most power Italian earthquake killing around about 60000
11 Jan 1709
Colley Cibbers play Rival Fools premieres in London
11 Jan 1753
Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
11 Jan 1758
Russian troops occupy Knigsberg East-Prussia [NSJan 22]
11 Jan 1759
1st American life insurance company incorporated Philadelphia
11 Jan 1774
Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
11 Jan 1775
Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
11 Jan 1779
Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
11 Jan 1794
U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth is killed in Augusta Georgia trying to serve court papers first US marshal to die carrying out his duties
11 Jan 1839
Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal - 700 die
11 Jan 1861
Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
11 Jan 1863
Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
11 Jan 1863
Union forces capture Arkansas Post or Ft Hindman Arkansas
11 Jan 1865
Battle of Beverly West Virginia Confederate forces attack Union post
11 Jan 1866
Steamship London sinks in storm off Lands End England and kills 220
11 Jan 1867
Benito Jurez becomes Mexican president again.
11 Jan 1873
1st livestock market newspaper published Drovers Journal Chicago
11 Jan 1879
Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
11 Jan 1892
William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
11 Jan 1894
Donghak Peasant Rebellion begins in Mujiang Korea over local corruption sparking the 1st Sino-Japanese War
11 Jan 1897
M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
11 Jan 1912
Bread & Roses Strike begins in Lawrence Massachusetts following a pay cut
11 Jan 1913
1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
11 Jan 1915
Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for 460000
11 Jan 1916
French troops captureSerbian army flees to Corfu
11 Jan 1917
Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouses Have a Heart premieres in New York
11 Jan 1919
3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
11 Jan 1920
French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle 553 die
11 Jan 1922
Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes on Leonard Thompson 14 of Canada
11 Jan 1923
1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
11 Jan 1923
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
11 Jan 1924
A republic is proclaimed in Greece King George II is deposed and Eleutherios Venizelo is named Prime Minister of the Greek National Assembly
11 Jan 1927
Royale Theater (Golden CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC
11 Jan 1927
Louis B. Mayer head of film studio MGM announces creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
11 Jan 1936
Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
11 Jan 1938
Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
11 Jan 1940
Sergei Prokofievs ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
11 Jan 1941
Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
11 Jan 1942
-23F (-31C) Kingston Rhode Island (state record)
11 Jan 1943
US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
11 Jan 1946
Bert Bell becomes second NFL commissioner moves Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia
11 Jan 1946
Enver Hoxha declares Peoples Rep of Albania with himself dictator
11 Jan 1952
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
11 Jan 1954
2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)
11 Jan 1957
Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
11 Jan 1959
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
11 Jan 1959
Hanif Mohammad completes 499 runs for Karachi then 1st class cricket world record
11 Jan 1960
LaMar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
11 Jan 1962
Volcano Huascaran in Peru erupts killing 4000
11 Jan 1963
Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
11 Jan 1963
Los Angeles night club and music venue The Whiskey A-Go-Go opens (inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2006)
11 Jan 1964
She Loves Me closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 302 performances
11 Jan 1964
The Beatles single I Want to Hold Your Hand reaches 80 in US (Cashbox)
11 Jan 1964
1st government report warning by US Surgeon General Luther Terry that smoking may be hazardous
11 Jan 1966
Daktari African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
11 Jan 1966
550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
11 Jan 1966
16th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 137-94 at Cincinnati
11 Jan 1967
Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
11 Jan 1967
San Diego is granted an NBA franchise to be called the Rockets franchise moves to Houston for the 1971-72 season
11 Jan 1968
Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (10801570 km)
11 Jan 1969
Hooked on a Feeling by BJ Thomas peaks at 5
11 Jan 1969
Jethro Tulls This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
11 Jan 1970
Super Bowl IV Tulane Stadium New Orleans KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings 23-7 MVP Len Dawson Kansas City QB
11 Jan 1970
Irish republican political party Sinn Fin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against
11 Jan 1971
Tigers ace reliever John Hiller 27 sufferes a heart attack but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
11 Jan 1972
East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
11 Jan 1973
Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
11 Jan 1974
ABC airs final episode of Love American Style
11 Jan 1975
Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
11 Jan 1976
Pacific Overtures opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 performances
11 Jan 1976
Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship
11 Jan 1976
Military coup in Ecuador President Guillermo Lara leaves
11 Jan 1976
Stephen Sondheims musical Pacific Overtures premieres in NYC
11 Jan 1976
US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
11 Jan 1977
Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
11 Jan 1977
France releases Abu Daoud a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
11 Jan 1978
Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
11 Jan 1979
Grand Tour opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
11 Jan 1981
Tintypes closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances
11 Jan 1981
British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica reaching Scott base after 75 days (2500 miles)
11 Jan 1981
AFC Championship Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego Oakland Raiders beat San Diego Chargers 34-27
11 Jan 1981
NFC Championship Veterans Stadium Philadelphia Philadelphia Eagles beat Dallas Cowboys 20-7
11 Jan 1982
Atlanta Georgias temperature goes below zero F
11 Jan 1983
Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time
11 Jan 1983
LA Kings center Marcel Dionne picks up his 24th NHL career hat-trick and adds 3 assists for 6 points in a 9-7 win at Washington Kings first road win after 8 straight losses
11 Jan 1983
Edmontons Pat Hughes sets an NHL record for the fastest 2 shorthanded goals by one player at just 25 seconds apart in a 7-5 win at St. Louis first player to break a Wayne Gretzky record
11 Jan 1984
Denver Nuggets 163 San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
11 Jan 1984
NASA space shuttle STS 41-B moves to launch pad
11 Jan 1984
Supreme Court reinstated 10M award to Karen Silkwoods family
11 Jan 1985
CDC MMWR publishes guidelines for screening U.S. blood supply for AIDS antibodies with ELISA test that would be available later that year
11 Jan 1986
1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in - Douglas Wilder of Virginia
11 Jan 1987
Largest crowd (76633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)
11 Jan 1987
NFC Championship Giants Stadium East Rutherford New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 17-0
11 Jan 1988
Test debut of Phil Simmons WI v India Madras
11 Jan 1988
USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
11 Jan 1988
ABC premiere of fact-based Evil in Clear River
11 Jan 1989
140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas etc)
11 Jan 1989
Denver Nuggets rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee one missed by 2 feet
11 Jan 1989
Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
11 Jan 1990
200000 demand return of Lithuanias independence
11 Jan 1990
Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
11 Jan 1990
Bobby Knight becomes basketballs Big 10 winningest coach (229)
11 Jan 1991
Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
11 Jan 1991
Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
11 Jan 1991
Ben Johnsons 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use he finishes 2nd
11 Jan 1992
Algerias President Chadli announces his resignation
11 Jan 1992
US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi
11 Jan 1993
Howard Sterns radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
11 Jan 1993
Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
11 Jan 1993
British Airways ends one of the longest libel actions in its history
11 Jan 1994
Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
11 Jan 1994
Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
11 Jan 1995
5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
11 Jan 1995
Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) granted CFL franchise experiment only lasts one season
11 Jan 1995
DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya Colombia 51 die 9 yr old girl lives
11 Jan 1996
Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10) launches into space
11 Jan 1996
Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
11 Jan 1998
Proposals closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
11 Jan 1998
AFC Championship Game Denver Broncos beat Pittsburgh Steelers 24-21
11 Jan 1998
NFC Championship 3Com Park SF Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49ers 23-10
11 Jan 1998
US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
11 Jan 1998
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
11 Jan 1998
Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria over 100 people are killed.
11 Jan 1999
Blent Ecevit becomes Prime Minister of Turkey for the 4th time
11 Jan 2001
New York Knicks hold an opponent under 100 points for NBA-record 29th straight game in a 76-75 loss to the Houston Rockets streak snaps 46-year-old NBA record of 28 straight set by the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1954-55
11 Jan 2002
7th Critics Choice Movie Awards A Beautiful Mind wins Best Film
11 Jan 2003
Washington right wing Jaromr Jgr scores his 10th career hat-trick and adds 4 assists for 7 points and his 1200th NHL point in a 12-2 win against Florida Jgr has 20 goals in each of his 13 NHL seasons
11 Jan 2004
30th Peoples Choice Awards Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)
11 Jan 2004
4th and 26 trailing Green Bay Packers by 3 in NFC Divisional Playoff Game Philadelphia Eagles face 4th and 26 on their final drive Donovan McNabb hits Freddie Mitchell for 29 yards. Eagles tie the game and go on to win in overtime
11 Jan 2004
Washington Capitols German goaltender Olaf Klzig records his 32nd NHL career shutout in a 1-0 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers
11 Jan 2013
46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province China
11 Jan 2013
29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti Nepal
11 Jan 2015
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovi is elected as the first female President of Croatia
11 Jan 2016
College Football National Championship University of Phoenix Stadium 2 Alabama beats 1 Clemson 45-40
11 Jan 2018
In Chinas first significant MeToo moment Beihang University in Beijing fires a professor for sexual misconduct
11 Jan 1915
Jacob Ruppert and Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase the New York Yankees for 460000 Ruppert pays his portion in cash
11 Jan 1922
Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes on Canadian Leonard Thompson aged 14
11 Jan 1959
9th NFL Pro Bowl LA Memorial Coliseum Eastern Conference beats Western Conference 28-21 MVPs Frank Gifford NY Giants HB Doug Atkins Chicago Bears DE
11 Jan 1964
First government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warning that smoking may be hazardous
11 Jan 1966
16th NBA All-Star Game Cincinnati Gardens Cincinnati OH East beats West 137-94 MVP Adrian Smith Cincinnati Royals PG
11 Jan 1970
Super Bowl IV Tulane Stadium New Orleans LA KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings 23-7 MVP Len Dawson Kansas City QB
11 Jan 1983
Edmontons Pat Hughes sets NHL record for the fastest 2 shorthanded goals by one player at just 25 seconds apart in a 7-5 win at St. Louis first player to break a Wayne Gretzky record
11 Jan 1693
Most powerful earthquake in Italian recorded history strikes Sicily and Southern Italy with an estimated magnitude of 7.4. Tsunamis followed and devastated coastal villages on the Ionian Sea and the Straits of Messina.
11 Jan 2004
Washington Capitals German goaltender Olaf Klzig records his 32nd NHL career shutout in a 1-0 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers
11 Jan 2020
Diego the giant 100 year old tortoise retires to the Galapagos islands after his high libido is credited with saving his species
11 Jan 1916
Austrian forces capture Mount Loven Serbia. Serbian army retreats evacuating to Greek island of Corfu
11 Jan 1959
Pakistani cricket batsman Hanif Mohammad smashes 499 for Karachi v Bahawalpur then 1st class world record
11 Jan 1962
Landslide at dormant volcano Huascaran in Peru kills an estimated 4000
11 Jan 1998
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
11 Jan 2021
Ireland becomes the country with the worlds highest COVID-19 infection rate after a dramatic surge results in seven-day rolling average of 1394 cases per million
11 Jan 2021
US House Democrats introduce one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection for encouraging his supporters to riot at the Capitol
11 Jan 2021
College Football National Championship Hard Rock Stadium Miami Gardens Florida 1 Alabama beats 3 Ohio State 52-24
11 Jan 2021
The king of Malaysia Al-Sultan Abdullah declares a state of emergency over COVID-19 till 1 August suspending parliament and giving the government new powers
11 Jan 1378
Earliest record in Durham England of Plough Monday the first Monday after the Feast of Epiphany (Jan 6) when agricultural work could restart
11 Jan 1963
Beatles release single Please Please Me Ask Me Why peaks at 2 in UK and 3 in US
11 Jan 1986
Douglas Wilder of Virginia 1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in
11 Jan 1990
Bobby Knight becomes college basketballs Big 10 winningest coach (229)
11 Jan 2022
Quebec announces it will impose a healthcare tax on unvaccinated adults who are accounting for 50% of ICU cases (scrapped Feb ) [1]
11 Jan 2022
WHO warns more than half of Europe could catch COVID-19 within weeks warning of a west-to-east tidal wave [1]
11 Jan 1753
Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord Spain recovers the right to appoint bishops and tax the clergy
11 Jan 1892
William D. McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
11 Jan 1897
Martha Hughes Cannon takes office as the 1st woman state senator in US in Utah after defeating her own husband
11 Jan 1917
Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouses musical Have a Heart premieres in New York
11 Jan 1938
Don Bradman scores a second innings 113 vs Qld after a ton in the 1st innings
11 Jan 1954
Two ton locomotive swept into ravine by an avalanche in Austria killing 10
11 Jan 1957
American plane mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber
11 Jan 1973
Famous Australian cricket victory at the SCG - Pakistan chasing 158 is all out for 106
11 Jan 1977
Poetrys Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
11 Jan 1990
Actor Joseph Cotton (84) undergoes cancer operation to remove his larynx
11 Jan 1990
Bob Knight becomes college basketballs Big 10 winningest coach with his 229th victory
11 Jan 2009
John Du Prez and Eric Idles musical Spamalot based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and starring Tim Curry and Davis Hyde Pierce closes at the Shubert Theatre NYC after 1575 and 3 Tony Award wins
11 Jan 2014
Pianist Menahem Presser (90) makes his Berlin Philharmonic debut as soloist in Mozarts 17th Piano Concerto he had fled Nazi persecution in Germany as a teenager
11 Jan 2018
US President Donald Trump causes worldwide controversy when it is reported he called African countries shitholes during immigration meeting
11 Jan 2024
New study finds largest great ape Gigantopithecus blacki at 10 feet tall (3 meters) from southern China went extinct because of climate change between 215000 and 295000 years ago [1]
11 Jan 1055
Theodora crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire
11 Jan 1863
Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras
11 Jan 1863
Union forces capture Arkansas Post or Fort Hindman Arkansas
11 Jan 1913
First sedan-type car a Hudson goes on display at the 13th Auto Show in NYC
11 Jan 1919
3-year-old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
11 Jan 1938
Frances Moulton is elected as the first female president of a US national bank
11 Jan 1975
Soviet Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
11 Jan 1977
MLB Chicago Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Los Angeles Dodgers for Bill Buckner
11 Jan 1981
South Pacific island of Palau adopts constitution
11 Jan 1993
Howard Stern Radio Show begins transmitting to Buffalo New York on WKBW
11 Jan 1995
5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins broadcasting
11 Jan 2018
US President Donald Trump causes worldwide controversy when it is reported he called African countries shitholes during imigration meeting
11 Jan 2020
Diego the giant 100-year-old tortoise retires to the Galapagos islands after his high libido is credited with saving his species
11 Jan 2024
Death toll from Zambias cholera outbreak reaches 300 as the president urges people to move away from dense urban areas [1]
11 Jan 2024
Huge ancient city discovered in the Amazon in Upano area of eastern Ecuador capable of supporting 10000 people with sophisticated roads and canals [1]
11 Jan 2024
Largest dam removal in US history enters crucial phase as reservoir on Iron Gate Dam lowered in Klamath River through California and Oregon [1]
11 Jan 2024
More than 300 people have died in flooding caused by the highest levels of River Congo in 60 years especially in Kinshasa DR Congo [1]
11 Jan 2024
Rare copy of mint first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man sells for 1.38 million and Superman 1 goes for 2.34m at auction [1]
11 Jan 2024
South Africa begins its case accusing Israel of genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza and violating the 1948 genocide convention at the International Court of Justice in The Hague [1]
11 Jan 2024
The US and UK launch multiple air-strikes against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen in retaliation for attacks on vessels in the Red Sea [1]
11 Jan 1599
Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java in modern-day Indonesia with 1 million pounds of pepper and cloves and a further half a ship full of nutmeg mace and cinnamon
11 Jan 1759
First American life insurance company is incorporated in Philadelphia
11 Jan 1885
Henrik Ibsens play Vildauden (The Wild Duck) premieres in Oslo
11 Jan 1897
Martha Hughes Cannon takes office as the first woman state senator in the US in Utah after defeating her own husband
11 Jan 1913
First sedan-type car a Hudson goes on display at the 13th Auto Show in New York City
11 Jan 1963
Beatles release the single Please Please Me Ask Me Why peaks at 2 in UK and 3 in US
11 Jan 1978
Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (first time three spacecraft link)
11 Jan 1983
Billy Martin named NY Yankees manager for the third time
11 Jan 1990
NHL New York Islander Pat Lafontaine sets team record by scoring goals in 11 straight games
11 Jan 1999
Marty Schottenheimer resigns as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs
11 Jan 2024
After 24 seasons and 6 Super Bowl titles coach Bill Belichick and the NFL New England Patriots part ways Patriots finished season in last place in AFC East at 4-13
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