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.
- 1158 –Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
- 1569 –First recorded lottery in England.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1879 –The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1908 –Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 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: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
- 1942 –World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 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.
- 1957 –The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- 1972 –East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 1986 –The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
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