About January 11
January 11, 2025 is the 11th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 18 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 11
- 1055 –Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1571 –Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
- 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.
- 1838 –Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
- 1861 –Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1879 –The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1908 –Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 1922 –First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 1946 –Enver Hoxha declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as president.
- 1949 –The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
- 1957 –The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- 1960 –Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
- 1972 –East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 1998 –Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
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