January 11

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 11. From 1900 until now. January 11 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Mary J Blige (1971), Jérôme Kerviel (1977) and Amanda Peet (1972). Several movies were released around January 11 over the years, such as There's Something Wrong with the Children in 2023 directed by Roxanne Benjamin and It's a Sin in 2021 directed by ---.
But much more happened on January 11 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Morocco - The Independence manifesto day.
Japan - Kagami-Biraki (Rice Cakes Festival).
Feast of the Baptism of Jesus.
Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta.
Nepal - Unity Day.
Albania - Republic Day (1946).
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Events

2019 A car bomb explosion outside Al-Qaim's public market left 25 Iraqis injured and two Iraqis dead. The attack is believed to have been orchestrated by the Islamic State.
2018 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: Two 16-year old Palestinians are killed in clashes with Israeli forces.
2017 War in Afghanistan: A bombing in Kandahar has resulted in the deaths of at least 11 people, including five diplomats from the UAE.
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017). At least 51 people were reportedly killed in an attack at a shopping center in Baghdad's capital. A car bombing also took place outside a Miqdadiyah illegal casino, east of Baghdad. Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant. (BBC),
2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting: Police and military personnel gather thousands of troops and police to ensure a Paris unity rally, which could attract up to one million people. (Daily Mail). An arson attack on Hamburger Morgenpost in Germany, which published cartoons by Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, results in two arrests.
2014 Nawaz Sharif has nominated Aitizaz Hassan from Pakistan, who was killed trying to stop a suicide bomber.
2013 Civil war in Syria: Rebel forces seize the Taftanaz strategic airbase in northern Syria.
2012 The United States denies any involvement with a bomb explosion that claimed the life of an Iranian scientist.
2011 903 people were killed by flooding and mudslides, in Brazil's state of Rio de Janeiro.
2010 Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, outlines seven priorities in 2010 and calls for a renewed focus to sustainable development and ending hunger and disease.
2009 The Golden Globe Awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, California. Best drama: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 Lithuanian government confirms the existence of a nuclear waste facility.
2007 China conducts its first successful anti-satellite missile testing since 1985.
2006 Alaska's Augustine Volcano erupts twice. This marks its first major eruption since 1986.
2005 According to the People's Republic of China government, Zhao Ziyang, a convicted Chinese Communist leader, is currently in hospital but is stable. After rumors that he was dead, the announcement was made.
2004 Exploration of Mars: NASA's Spirit Rover now has its arm free and all six of it wheels. Only one cable needs to be cut before the rover can turn and roll onto Mars soil. Scientists are now taking advantage of the opportunity to collect additional data and take more pictures as this milestone is reached.
2003 Clonaid, a controversial organization that claims it created a human-clone, was ordered by a U.S. court to disclose the identity and location of the alleged cloned child.
2001 The merger of America Online & Time Warner is approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to create AOL Time Warner.
2000 The Solway Harvester trawler sinks off Ramsey, Isle of Man
1999 Bülent Ecevit, of DSP forms the new government of Turkey (56th government, an interim government)
1998 Proposals, closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
1997 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails
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.
1995 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
1994 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.
1993 American independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics.
1992 US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.
1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
1990 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc.).
1988 Test debut of Phil Simmons, West Indies versus India, Madras.
1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giants Stadium (beat Washington Redskins 17-0).
1986 1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in
1984 STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1982 Honduras adopts constitution.
1981 Tintypes closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances
1980 Debut of Pretenders
1979 Grand Tour opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (first time three spacecraft link).
1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1976 Pacific Overtures opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 performances
1975 Soyuz 17 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4.
1974 ABC airs final episode of Love, American Style
1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule.
1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh.
1971 1st Quickie Divorce granted in the UK
1970 Super Bowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans; Most Valuable Player: Len Dawson, Quarterback.
1969 Hooked on a Feeling by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit
1967 Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission.
1966 Daktari African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
1964 Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand is #80 in US
1963 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia, USA.
1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts.
1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record
1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
1953 J Edgar Hoover declines six-figure offer to become president of the International Boxing Club.
1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore.
1950 Huk guerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa, Bataan in the Philippines.
1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
1946 Bert Bell becomes second NFL commissioner, moves Chicago, Illinois, headquarters to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1944 US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security in his State of the Union address
1943 US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China.
1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton.
1938 Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a U.S. national bank.
1937 The first issue of ''Look'' magazine goes on sale in the United States.
1936 Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
1935 Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1933 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
1930 At 12:00 PM, the first official theater-based Mickey Mouse Club begins, at the Fox Dome Theater in Ocean Park, California.
1927 Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th, New York City
1925 Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Secretary of State
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.
1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
1919 Romania annexes Transylvania.
1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1916 French troops capture / Serbian army flees to Corfu
1915 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000.
1913 Bread and Roses Strike begins.
1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising.
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