Historical Events on 11 Jan

Historical Events on 11 Jan

1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
1569 - First recorded lottery in England.
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.
1867 - Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again.
1879 - The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1912 - The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its reparation payments.
1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
1957 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
1962 - An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
1964 - 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.
1972 - East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1986 - The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1990 - 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
1994 - The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
1996 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.