Notable Historical Events on January 11th
January 11th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
532 |
Nika-revolt against Justianus & Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople |
1055 |
Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. |
1158 |
Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king |
1558 |
Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm |
1569 |
1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral |
1571 |
Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion |
1599 |
Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat |
1693 |
Mt Etna in Sicily erupts |
1709 |
Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London |
1753 |
Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord |
1758 |
Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22] |
1759 |
1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia |
1765 |
Frisia bans Voltaires "Traité sur la tolérance" |
1774 |
Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog |
1775 |
Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) |
1779 |
Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur. |
1785 |
Continental Congress convenes in NYC |
1787 |
Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel |
1790 |
Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium |
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. |
1803 |
Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La |
1805 |
Michigan Territory organizes |
1813 |
1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21) |
1838 |
1st public demonstration of telegraph message sent using dots & dashes at Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail |
1839 |
Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal - 700 die |
1849 |
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in US to earn medical degree |
1861 |
Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform |
1861 |
Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
1863 |
Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras |
1863 |
Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft Hindman, Arkansas |
1864 |
Charing Cross Station opens in London |
1865 |
Battle of Beverly, WV |
1866 |
Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220 |
1867 |
Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again. |
1873 |
1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago |
1879 |
Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins |
1885 |
Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo |
1892 |
Hawaiian Historical Society founded |
1892 |
William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia |
1893 |
Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35) |
1897 |
M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah) |
1904 |
Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising |
1912 |
Bread & Roses Strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts |
1913 |
1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC) |
1915 |
Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for $460,000 |
1916 |
French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu |
1917 |
Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in NYC |
1919 |
3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed |
1919 |
Romania annexes Transylvania |
1920 |
French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die |
1922 |
Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada) |
1923 |
1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters) |
1923 |
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations |
1925 |
Frank Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Sect of State |
1927 |
Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC |
1935 |
Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course) |
1936 |
Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives |
1938 |
Bradman scores a second innings 113 v Qld after a ton in the 1st |
1938 |
Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank |
1940 |
Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad |
1941 |
Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton |
1942 |
-23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record) |
1942 |
Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
1943 |
US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China |
1944 |
Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established |
1946 |
Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Phila |
1946 |
Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator |
1949 |
Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles |
1952 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore |
1953 |
J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club |
1954 |
2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria) |
1957 |
The African Convention is founded in Dakar. |
1957 |
Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber. |
1959 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke |
1959 |
Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record |
1959 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open |
1959 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21 |
1960 |
Chad declares independence from France |
1960 |
Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts |
1961 |
Racial riot at University of Georgia |
1962 |
Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die |
1963 |
1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA |
1963 |
Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" |
1964 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 perfs |
1964 |
Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox) |
1964 |
Panama ends diplomatic relations with US |
1964 |
1st government report warning by US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous |
1966 |
"Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV |
1966 |
550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain |
1967 |
Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission |
1968 |
Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km) |
1969 |
"Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5 |
1969 |
Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts |
1970 |
Super Bowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB |
1970 |
Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against |
1971 |
Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves |
1972 |
East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh |
1972 |
Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier |
1973 |
American League adopts designated hitter rule |
1973 |
Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106 |
1973 |
Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC |
1974 |
ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style" |
1975 |
Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4 |
1976 |
"Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 perfs |
1976 |
Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec natl figure skating champions |
1976 |
Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves |
1976 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in NYC |
1976 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
1976 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka |
1977 |
Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow |
1977 |
Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner |
1977 |
France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics |
1978 |
Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building |
1978 |
Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link) |
1979 |
"Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances |
1980 |
Debut of Pretenders |
1981 |
"Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances |
1981 |
Palau adopts constitution |
1981 |
Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) |
1982 |
Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F |
1982 |
Honduras adopts constitution |
1983 |
Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time |
1984 |
Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game |
1984 |
STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad |
1984 |
Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family |
1986 |
1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va) |
1987 |
Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0) |
1987 |
"The Drive", trailing the Cleveland Browns 20-13 with only 5:32 remaining in the AFC Championship Game and the ball on their own two-yard line, Denver quarterback John Elway drove his team 98 yards for a touchdown to tie the game, which the Broncos won in overtime to advance to Super Bowl XXI |
1988 |
Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras |
1988 |
USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics |
1989 |
140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc) |
1989 |
Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet |
1989 |
Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school |
1990 |
200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence |
1990 |
Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84 |
1990 |
Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229) |
1990 |
Pat LaFontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight |
1991 |
Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq |
1991 |
Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title |
1991 |
Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence |
1991 |
Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd |
1992 |
Algeria's Pres Chadli announces his resignation |
1992 |
Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa |
1992 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi |
1993 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW) |
1993 |
Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics |
1994 |
Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy |
1994 |
Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA |
1995 |
5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC) |
1995 |
Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise |
1995 |
DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives |
1995 |
NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space |
1996 |
Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1997 |
Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis Intl |
1997 |
Telstar 401 Satellite Fails |
1998 |
"Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances |
1998 |
AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pitt Steelers 24-21 |
1998 |
NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat SF 49'ers 23-10 |
1998 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
1998 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
1998 |
Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed. |
1998 |
24th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win (TV) |
1999 |
26th American Music Award: Celine Dion & Eric Clapton win |
1999 |
Marty Schottenheimer resigns as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs |
2004 |
"4th and 26", trailing the Green Bay Packers by 3 in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, the Philadelphia Eagles faced 4th and 26 on their final drive, when Donovan McNabb hit Freddie Mitchell for 29 yards. The Eagles would tie the game and go on to win in overtime |
2004 |
30th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV) |
2010 |
Simon Cowell leaves "American Idol" |
2012 |
38th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Emma Stone win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Nina Dobrev win (TV Drama) |
2013 |
46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China |
2013 |
29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal |
2017 |
Volkswagen's Tentative $4.3 Billion Deal With US Includes Guilty Plea on Emissions |
2017 |
Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre |
2017 |
Trump Tells Congress to Repeal and Replace Health Care Law 'Very Quickly' |
2017 |
Obama says Israeli settlements making two-state solution impossible |
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