About January 11
January 11, 2020 is the 11th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 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 14 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.
- 1158 –Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
- 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.
- 1838 –Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 1943 –World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
- 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.
- 1962 –An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
- 1972 –East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
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