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.
  • 1569 –
    First recorded lottery in England.
  • 1693 –
    Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
  • 1787 –
    William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
  • 1838 –
    Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
  • 1861 –
    Alabama secedes from the United States.
  • 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.
  • 1919 –
    Romania annexes Transylvania.
  • 1927 –
    Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • 1935 –
    Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: 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 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.
  • 1960 –
    Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
  • 1962 –
    An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
  • 1972 –
    East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
  • 1994 –
    The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
  • 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.

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