SomeFacts | January 11

On this day - January 11

532 — Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of ...

630 — Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, ...

930 — Sack of Mecca by the Qarmatians.

1055 — Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.

1158 — Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.

1569 — First recorded lottery in England.

1654 — Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local ...

1759 — The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for ...

1787 — William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of ...

1805 — The Michigan Territory is created.

1820 — The Great Savannah Fire of 1820 destroys over 400 buildings in ...

1851 — Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan proclaims the Taiping Heavenly ...

1861 — American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.

1863 — American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS ...

1863 — American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Arkansas Post ...

1879 — The Anglo-Zulu War begins.

1908 — Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

1912 — Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on ...

1914 — The Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sinks ...

1917 — The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs, possibly as ...

1922 — Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with ...

1923 — Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy ...

1927 — Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), ...

1935 — Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from ...

1942 — World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, ...

1942 — World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the ...

1943 — Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New ...

1943 — The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal ...

1946 — Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of ...

1949 — The first "networked" television broadcasts took ...

1957 — The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.

1959 — 36 people are killed when Lufthansa Flight 502 crashes on ...

1961 — Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York ...

1962 — An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.

1962 — Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet ...

1964 — Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., ...

1966 — The Tbilisi Metro is opened.

1972 — East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.

1973 — Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American ...

1977 — The first episode of Finnish children's TV show Pikku ...

1983 — United Airlines Flight 2885 crashes after takeoff from Detroit ...

1986 — The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is ...

1994 — The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year ...

1995 — 51 people are killed in a plane crash in María La Baja, ...

1996 — Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space ...

1998 — Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in ...

2003 — Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of ...

2013 — One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed ...

2020 — COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in ...