On this day in History - Jan. 11

• 0314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
• 0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.
• 0630 - El profeta y fundador del Islam, Mahoma, destruye la idolatría del santuario de la Kaaba en La Meca.
• 0705 - Pope John VI dies, 85th Pope.
• 0812 - Stauracius dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 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.
• 1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan was born (d. 1380)
• 1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan was born (d. 1393).
• 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio dies (b. 1449). Italian artist.
• 1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza dies (b. 1428). Spanish cardinal and statesman.
• 1503 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola was born (d. 1540). Italian artist.
• 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.
• 1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex was born (d. 1646). English Civil War general
• 1630 - John Rogers was born (d. 1684). American President of Harvard.
• 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar dies (b. 1583). Spanish poet.
• 1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie was born (d. 1745). French military leader.
• 1693 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
• 1696 - Charles Albanel dies (b. 1616). French missionary explorer in Canada.
• 1703 - Johann Georg Graevius dies (b. 1632). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1713 - Pierre Jurieu dies (b. 1637). French protestant leader.
• 1717 - Se firma en La Haya la Triple Alianza.
• 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.
• 1757 - Alexander Hamilton was born (d. 1804). First United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac dies (b. 1695). French sculptor.
• 1763 - Caspar Abel dies (b. 1676). German theologian, historian and poet.
• 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens dies (b. 1704). French writer.
• 1782 - Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle was born. Mexican politician, redactor del Acta de Independencia.
• 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn dies (1717). Welsh hymnist.
• 1800 - Nat Turner was born (d. 1831). American slave.
• 1800 - Anyos Jedlík was born (d. 1895). Hungarian physicist.
• 1801 - Domenico Cimarosa dies (b. 1749). Italian composer.
• 1805 - Michigan Territory is created.
• 1807 - Ezra Cornell was born (d. 1874). American businessman, founder of Cornell University.
• 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 (d. 1891). First Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos was born. Educator and writer.
• 1843 - Francis Scott Key dies (b. 1779). American lawyer.
• 1845 - Albert Victor Bäcklund was born (d. 1912). Swedish physicist.
• 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 (d. 1941). Norwegian composer.
• 1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge was born (d. 1947). American retailer.
• 1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon was born (d. 1925). British statesman, Viceroy of India.
• 1859 - Francisco de Andrade was born (d. 1921 ). Portuguese bariton
• 1860 - Marie Bashkirtseff was born (d. 1884). Ukrainian artist.
• 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.
• 1868 - Cai Yuanpei was born (d. 1940). Chinese educator.
• 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.
• 1875 - Reinhold Glière was born (d. 1956). Russian composer.
• 1876 - Elmer Flick was born (d. 1971). American baseball player.
• 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1880 - Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.
• 1882 - Theodor Schwann dies. German biologist.
• 1885 - Alice Paul was born (d. 1977). American women's rights activist .
• 1887 - Aldo Leopold was born (d. 1948). American ecologist.
• 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.
• 1890 - Oswald de Andrade was born (d. 1954). Brazilian writer.
• 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).
• 1896 - João de Deus dies in Lisbon (b. 8 Mar 1830). Portuguese poet and pedagogue.
• 1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov dies (b. 1866). Russian composer.
• 1902 - Johnny Briggs dies (b.1862). English cricketer.
• 1902 - Maurice Duruflé was born (d. 1986). French composer.
• 1903 - Alan Paton qwas born (d. 1988). South African writer.
• 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.
• 1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter dies (b. 1847). Hasidic rabbi.
• 1906 - Albert Hofmann was born. Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD effects.
• 1908 - Lionel Stander was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 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.
• 1911 - Zenko Suzuki was born (d. 2004). Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1913 - Proclamación de la independencia del Tíbet.
• 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 1920 - Um navio francês que viajava para a África afunda perto de La Rochelle com 553 pessoas a bordo.
• 1921 - Juanita M. Kreps was born. Former US Secretary of Commerce
• 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.
• 1923 - Carroll Shelby was born. American automobile designer.
• 1923 - King Constantine I of Greece dies (b. 1868)
• 1924 - Roger Guillemin was born. French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1924 - Sam B. Hall was born (d. 1994). American politician.
• 1924 - Slim Harpo was born (d. 1970). American musician.
• 1924 - Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was born; French-born American physiologist who researched the hormones produced by the hypothalamus gland.
• 1925 - Grant Tinker was born. American television executive
• 1926 - Lev Demin was born (d. 1998). Cosmonaut.
• 1928 - Thomas Hardy dies (b. 1840). English writer.
• 1930 - The element Fr (francium) was discovered.
• 1930 - Rod Taylor was born. Australian actor.
• 1934 - Jean Chrétien was born. Twentieth Prime Minister of Canada
• 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.
• 1938 - Arthur Scargill was born. British labor leader
• 1941 - Gérson was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1941 - Emanuel Lasker dies (b. 1868). German chess player.
• 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.
• 1942 - Clarence Clemons was born. American musician (E Street Band)
• 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• 1943 - Eduardo Mendoza was born. Spanish writer.
• 1943 - Jim Hightower was born. American radio host and author
• 1944 - John Piper was born. American theologian
• 1944 - Shibu Soren was born. Indian politician
• 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.
• 1946 - Naomi Judd was born. American singer.
• 1948 - Al Berto was born. Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California
• 1952 - Ben Crenshaw was born. American golfer
• 1952 - Lee Ritenour was born. Musician and composer
• 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.
• 1956 - Robert Earl Keen was born. American singer
• 1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 1957 - Bryan Robson was born. English footballer and manager
• 1958 - Vicki Peterson was born. American musician.
• 1958 - Edna Purviance dies (b. 1895). American actress.
• 1959 - Forças do Vietname do Norte penetram em Laos.
• 1960 - Chad declares independence from France.
• 1960 - Stanley Tucci was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Jasper Fforde was born.British author.
• 1962 - Susan Lindauer was born. American peace activist and accused spy.
• 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.
• 1963 - Dean Reynolds was born. English snooker player
• 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.
• 1964 - Patrícia Pillar was born. Brazilian actress.
• 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.
• 1966 - Marc Acito was born. American novelist and humorist
• 1966 - Kelley Law was born. Canadian curler.
• 1966 - Alberto Giacometti dies (b. 10 Oct 1901). Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor.
• 1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen dies (b. 1889). Finnish runner.
• 1968 - Tom Dumont was born. American musician.
• 1970 - As Nigerian federal troops launch a final assault on Biafran rebels, the last Biafran airstrip is reported to be out of action.
• 1970 - Richmal Crompton dies (b. 1890). British author.
• 1971 - Mary J. Blige dies. American singer.
• 1972 - Marc Blucas dies. American actor
• 1972 - Amanda Peet dies. American actress
• 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.
• 1973 - Rahul Dravid was born. Indian cricketer
• 1974 - O recenseamento eleitoral, feito para a realização das primeiras eleições democráticas em Portugal, atingiu mais de 6 milhões de inscritos.
• 1974 - The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
• 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.
• 1977 - Shomari Buchanan was born. American football player
• 1978 - Emile Heskey was born. English footballer
• 1979 - Siti Nurhaliza was born. Malaysia's Top Singer
• 1980 - Nigel Short, 14, from Bolton in Great Britain, becomes the youngest International Master in the history of chess.
• 1980 - Mike Williams was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Barbara Pym dies (b. 1913). English novelist.
• 1981 - Beulah Bondi dies (b. 1888). American actress.
• 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.
• 1988 - Pappy Boyington dies (b. 1912). American aviator.
• 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 - Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein / O governo irlandês anuncia o fim da censura ao movimento terrorista IRA e seu braço político, o Sinn Fein.
• 1995 - António Anjos dies. Portuguese actor.
• 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.
• 1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
• 1998 - Klaus Tennstedt dies (b. 1926). German conductor.
• 1999 - Fabrizio de André dies (b. 1940). Italian singer.
• 2000 - Ivan Combe dies (b. 1911). American inventor.
• 2000 - Bob Lemon dies (b. 1920). Baseball player.
• 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.
• 2001 - The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
• 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun dies (b. 1914). English architect.
• 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.
• 2003 - Mickey Finn dies. English drummer (T. Rex)
• 2003 - Maurice Pialat dies (b. 1925). French actor and director.
• 2003 - Richard Simmons dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 2005 - Spencer Dryden dies (b. 1938). American drummer (Jefferson Airplane)
• 2005 - James Griffin dies dies (b. 1943). American musician (Bread) .
• 2005 - Miriam Hyde dies (b. 1913). Australian composer.
• 2005 - Cavem dies at 72. Portuguese footballer (Benfica).
• Albania - Republic Day (1946)
• Japan - Kagami-Biraki (Rice Cakes Festival)
• Morocco - The Independence manifesto day
• Nepal - Unity Day
• Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmen
• Feast of the Baptism of Jesus