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What Happened on January 11th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19.
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.
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	Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
1962	An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
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	The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
1943	Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
1942	World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
1942	World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
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: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1922	Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.
1917	The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1914	The Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sank after being crushed by ice.
1912	Immigrant textile workers 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: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1863	American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1861	American Civil War: 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	The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1693	A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1654	Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile.
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.
630	Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender.
532	Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.

Famous People Born on January 11

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Year	Name
1974	Jens Nowotny, German footballer
1980	Mike Williams, American football player
1903	Alan Paton, South African author and activist (d. 1988)
1944	Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, Sudanese poet and academic (d. 1989)
889	Abd-ar-Rahman III, first Caliph of Córdoba (d. 961)
1650	Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (d. 1721)
1895	Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company (d. 1973)
1910	Shane Paltridge, Australian soldier and politician (d. 1966)
1902	Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (d. 1986)
1901	Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)

Famous People Deaths On January 11

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Date	Name
1980	Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
1068	Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen
1957	Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
1762	Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695)
1397	Skirgaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
1986	Sid Chaplin, English author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2019	Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (b.1929)
1798	Heraclius II of Georgia (b. 1720)
1788	François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
2014	Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)