What are the important events that happened on January 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 11 is the 11th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 29, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,736,553,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hendecagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac 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 18 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,404 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 11 Historical Events
- 1055 –Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1158 –Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
- 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.
- 1861 –Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1917 –The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- 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: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- 1943 –Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
- 1972 –East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
Who were born on January 11?
- 1322 –Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
- 1868 –Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
- 1907 –Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (d. 1982)
- 1923 –Jerome Bixby, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1935 –Melvyn Hayes, British actor
- 1943 –Jim Hightower, American radio host, author, and activist
- 1945 –Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
- 1967 –Derek Riddell, Scottish actor
- 1973 –Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
- 1978 –Stijn Schaars, Dutch footballer
Who died on January 11?
- 1083 –Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. c. 1020)
- 1928 –Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- 1944 –Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law (b. 1903)
- 1947 –Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
- 1985 –Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
- 1988 –Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- 1994 –Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
- 1999 –Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2001 –Michael Williams, English actor (b. 1935)
- 2008 –Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the first person to climb Mount Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
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