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
- 630 –Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
- 1158 –Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
- 1569 –First recorded lottery in England.
- 1759 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
- 1779 –Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
- 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.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
- 1863 –American Civil War: ship CSS encountered and sank the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
- 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.
- 1935 –Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- 1943 –Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
- 1946 –Enver Hoxha declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as president.
- 1949 –First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
- 1994 –The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
- 1998 –Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
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