On this day in History - Jan. 11

• 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.
• 630 - El profeta y fundador del Islam, Mahoma, destruye la idolatría del santuario de la Kaaba en La Meca.
• 0705 Pope John VI dies.
• 1158- Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
• 1284 En una compilación titulada Recognoverunt Proceres, el rey de Aragón Pedro III otorga privilegios civiles y económicos a los barceloneses.
• 1519 - Maximiliano I de Austria, fallecimiento de, padre de Felipe el Hermoso y abuelo de Carlos I de España.
• 1569 - First recorded lottery in England.
• 1571 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.
• 1693 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
• 1717 - Se firma en La Haya la Triple Alianza.
• 1757 - Alexander Hamilton, was born, first United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804) .
• 1757 - Samuel Bentham, was born [d. 31 May 1831], English mechanical engineer , naval architect, and navy official in Russia (1780-91) and England (from 1795) who was an early advocate of explosive-shell weapons for warships.
• 1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1782 - Nació Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle, político mexicano, redactor del Acta de Independencia.
• 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 1800 - Nat Turner,was born, American slave (d. 1831) .
• 1805 - Michigan Territory is created.
• 1807 - Ezra Cornell, was born, American businessman, founder of Cornell University (d. 1874) .
• 1814 - Sir James Paget was born, [d. 30 Dec 1899. (1st Baronet) British surgeon and physiologist who is considered (with Rudolf Virchow) to be a founder of the science of pathology. Paget discovered (1834) in human muscle the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis. See Paget's disease of bone.
• 1815 - John A. Macdonald,was born, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
• 1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos Nacimiento de, educador y escritor.
• 1850 - Joseph Charles Arthur, was born, [d. 30 Apr 1942]; American botanist who discovered basic facts about the parasitic fungi known as rusts.
• 1856 - Christian Sinding,was born, Norwegian composer (d. 1941) .
• 1861 - Alabama secedes from the United States.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
• 1866 - Naufrágio no Golfo de Viscaya do barco de passageiros inglês London. Morreram afogadas 220 pessoas.
• 1867 -Edward Bradford Titchener was born [d. 3 Aug 1927]. English-born psychologist and a major figure in the establishment of experimental psychology in the United States.
• 1867 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
• 1872 - George Washington Pierce was born [ d. 1956] ; American inventor who was a pioneer in radiotelephony and a noted teacher of communication engineering.
• 1875 - Alfonso XII desembarca en Valencia, procedente de Barcelona, y se dirige hacia Madrid para ocupar el trono de España.
• 1876 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971) .
• 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1882 - Theodor Schwann, falecimento de, biólogo alemão.
• 1885 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist .
• 1889 - Calvin Blackman Bridges, was born [d. 1938]; American geneticist who helped establish the chromosomal basis of heredity and sex.
• 1890 - No seguimento da apresentação do Mapa Cor de Rosa, o governo britânico enviou um ultimato ao governo português exigindo a retirada das tropas portuguesas do território entre Angola e Moçambique.
• 1895 -Laurens Hammond was born [d.1973]; American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ (patented 24 Apr 1934).
• 1904- 1.000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland.
• 1905 - Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn was born, was a American cultural anthropologist with a deep interest in culture and personality.
• 1906 - Albert Hofmann, was born, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD effects .
• 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 1911 - the "Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science" was founded in Berlin. This became the present Max Planck Society.
• 1913 - Proclamación de la independencia del Tíbet.
• 1918 - Alexander Solzhenitsin, escritor ruso, autor de Archipiélago Gulag, Premio Nobel en 1970.
• 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 1920 - Um navio francês que viajava para a África afunda perto de La Rochelle com 553 pessoas a bordo.
• 1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
• 1924 - Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was born; French-born American physiologist who researched the hormones produced by the hypothalamus gland.
• 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840).
• 1930 - The element Fr (francium) was discovered.
• 1935 - Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1936 - La Cámara de Representantes de la República Dominicana aprobó una ley (derogada posteriormente al gobierno del dictador) por la que se cambiaba el nombre de la capital, Santo Domingo, por el de Ciudad Trujillo, por iniciativa del presidente de la República, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
• 1938 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.
• 1942 - Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
• 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
• 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
• 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• 1943 - Eduardo Mendoza, nacimiento de escritor español.
• 1944 - II Guerra Mundial: O Conde Ciano morre, genro de Mussolini .
• 1945 - Ley fundacional del Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, (actualmente es la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, AECI.
• 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the people's republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
• 1946 - Es destituido en Haití el presidente Lescot.
• 1946 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
• 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California
• 1954 - Manifesto da Independência de Marrocos. A data é comemorada como festa nacional no país.
• 1955 -The six-week old state of emergency, imposed after the exile of King Mutese II, ends.
• 1959 - Forças do Vietname do Norte penetram em Laos.
• 1960 - Chad declares independence from France.
• 1962 - Eruption of the volcano Huascaran in Peru; 4000 deaths.
• 1962 - Se inauguró el Concilio Vaticano II, que actualizó las estructuras y doctrina de la Iglesia Católica.
• 1963 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
• 1964 - O Cirurgião Geral dos Estados Unidos fez uma declaração afirmando que o consumo de cigarros podiam prejudicar a saúde, a primeira declaração oficial de um governo sobre o assunto.
• 1964 - In a landmark report, United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government.
• 1964 - The first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry.
• 1966 - Alberto Giacometti, dies, Swiss Surrealist painter and sculptor born on 10 October 1901.
• 1966 - Começa no Rio de Janeiro uma chuva que dura 72 horas ininterruptas. A cidade fica em estado de calamidade pública e 200 pessoas morreram.
• 1970 - As Nigerian federal troops launch a final assault on Biafran rebels, the last Biafran airstrip is reported to be out of action.
• 1972 - East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh.
• 1972 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.
• 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial in Washington DC
• 1973 - Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.
• 1974. O recenseamento eleitoral, feito para a realização das primeiras eleições democráticas em Portugal, atingiu mais de 6 milhões de inscritos.
• 1975 - Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, autor teatral y director del periódico español ABC.
• 1976 - Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves.
• 1977 -France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
• 1980 - Nigel Short,14, from Bolton in Great Britain, becomes the youngest International Master in the history of chess.
• 1981 Palau adopts constitution.
• 1981 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar es elegido secretario general de la ONU.
• 1982 - Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad Autónoma Andaluza y Asturias.
• 1982 - Honduras adopts constitution.
• 1982 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
• 1984 - Salvador Dalí anuncia la creación de la fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí y la donación de 621 de sus obras.
• 1985 - Inicia no Rio de Janeiro o mega evento Rock in Rio. Foram 10 dias de shows em que tocaram grandes nomes da música mundial.
• 1988 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, dies (born 29 Jul 1898); American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms, molecules, and atomic nuclei.
• 1989- La policía francesa detiene a Josu Ternera, máximo dirigente de ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna).
• 1989 - Um acordo assinado entre 140 países na Convenção para a Proibição de Armas Químicas acaba com esse tipo de armamento. A prática, no entanto, só passa a vigorar em 1997.
• 1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
• 1991 - Tropas soviéticas invadem prédios em Vilna, capital da Lituânia, para impedir um movimento de independência no país.
• 1991 -Carl David Anderson dies (born 3 Sep 1905); American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter.
• 1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
• 1993 - La UNESCO declara la Ruta Jacobea española patrimonio de la humanidad.
• 1994 - O governo irlandês anuncia o fim da censura ao movimento terrorista IRA e seu braço político, o Sinn Fein.
• 1996 - O parlamento japonês elege Ryutaro Hashimoto como seu novo primeiro-ministro.
• 1996 - O primeiro-ministro da Itália, Lamberto Dini, anuncia a sua renúncia.
• 1996 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1998 -Se celebran elecciones generales en Cuba.
• 2000 - The British government declares Chile's General Augusto Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain for crimes against humanity. — Londres decreta la libertad del general Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte.
• 2002 - The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2003 -Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state's death row by commuting the sentences of 167 inmates.
• 2003 - Entra em vigor o Novo Código Civil Brasileiro. O conjunto de leis trouxe inovações em áreas como regime de bens, vida familiar, maioridade civil, pagamentos de indenização e usucapião.