About January 11
January 11, 2022 is the 11th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 21 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1861 –Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 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.
- 1943 –Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
- 1972 –East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 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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