January 11

January 11th will be the 11th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Wednesday which will be in week 2. We will be the 11th of January 2023 in 4 months.

Capricorn

Zodiac sign

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What happened that day?

2013: One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
2003: Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
1998: Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
1996: [Space Shuttle](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
1994: The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
1986: The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1973: Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1972: East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1964: Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1962: An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
1962: Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
1961: Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
1957: The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
1949: The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1946: Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
1943: Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
1943: The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
1942: World War II: The Japanese attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
1942: World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1935: Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1927: Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1923: Occupation of the [Ruhr](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr): Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1922: First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1917: The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1912: Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
1908: Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1879: The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1863: American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1863: American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1861: Alabama secedes from the United States.
1805: The Michigan Territory is created.
1787: William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1779: Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1759: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1693: A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1571: Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
1569: First recorded lottery in England.
1158: Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes king of Bohemia.
1055: Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.
947: Emperor Tai Zong of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin.
532: Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.