About January 11
January 11, 2021 is the 11th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 32 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.
- 1571 –Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1879 –The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1917 –The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- 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.
- 1935 –Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 1957 –The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- 1962 –An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
- 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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