11 January
Domenico Ghirlandajo
Obsequies of St. Francis, Fresco,
Santa Trinita, Florence
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| 1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king | ||
| 1449 Domenico Ghirlandajo, Italy, renaissance painter was born |
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| 1503 Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist was born | ||
| 1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm | ||
| 1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral | ||
| 1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion | ||
| 1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society | ||
| 1693 Mt Etna erupts, Sicily | ||
| 1753 Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord | ||
| 1757 Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was born in the West Indies | Obsequies of St. Francis, Fresco, |
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| 1758 Russian troops occupy K”nigsberg, East-Prussia | ||
| 1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia | ||
| 1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) | ||
| 1785 Continental Congress convenes in NYC | ||
| 1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel | ||
| 1790 Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium | ||
| 1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; | ||
| 1815 Sir John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He became Canada's first prime minister. | ||
| 1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die | ||
| 1861 Mexico City captured by Ju rez (Lib) in War of Reform | ||
| 1861 Alabama seceded from the United States. | ||
| 1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London | ||
| 1865 Battle of Beverly, WV | ||
| 1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220 |
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| 1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago | ||
| 1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins | ||
| 1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded | ||
| 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania | ||
| 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die | ||
| 1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada) | ||
| 1923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations | ||
| 1935 Aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California, that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| 1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad | ||
| 1942 Japan invaded the Dutch East Indies and declared war against the Netherlands. | ||
| 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya | ||
| 1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China | ||
| 1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator | ||
| 1960 Chad declares independence from France | ||
| 1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia | ||
| 1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die | ||
| 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report that said smoking may be hazardous to one's health. | ||
| 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain | ||
| 1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier | ||
| 1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh | ||
| 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves | ||
| 1978 Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the "Soyuz 27" capsule linked up with the "Salyut Six" orbiting space station, where the "Soyuz 26" capsule was already docked. | ||
| 1981 Palau adopts constitution | ||
| 1982 Honduras adopts constitution | ||
| 1988 USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics | ||
| 1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence | ||
| 1991 U.S. Congress empowers U.S. President Bush to order attack on Iraq | ||
| 1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence | ||
| 1992 Algeria's Pres Chadli announces his resignation | ||
| 1994 Irish govt announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA | ||
| 1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives | ||
| 1996 A funeral was held for former French president Francois Mitterrand |