About January 11
January 11, 2024 is the 11th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 30 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.
- 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.
- 1805 –The Michigan Territory is created.
- 1861 –Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
- 1879 –The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1908 –Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 1917 –The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- 1922 –First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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