: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...
and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender.
*
947
Year 947 ( CMXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – A Hungarian army led by Grand Prince Taksony campaigns in Italy, heading ...
Liao Dynasty
The Liao dynasty (; Khitan: ''Mos Jælud''; ), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: ''Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur''), officially the Great Liao (), was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü ...
invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin.
* 1055 – Theodora is crowned empress of the
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
.
* 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
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Ching-Thang Khomba
Ningthou Ching-Thang Khomba (also Rajarshi Bhagya Chandra, Jai Singh Maharaja) (1748–1799) was a Meitei monarch of the 18th century CE. The inventor of the Manipuri Raas Leela dance, with his daughter ''Shija Lailoibi'' playing as Radha at ...
is crowned
King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contempora ...
of
Manipur
Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of ...
1805
After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 11 – The Michigan Territory is created.
* February 7 – King Anouvong become ...
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and t ...
United States
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Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in the western United ...
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
.
*
1879
Events January–March
* January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
* January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* Janu ...
– The
Anglo-Zulu War
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following the passing of the British North America Act of 1867 forming a federation in Canada, Lord Carnarvon thought that a similar political effort, cou ...
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
sabotage
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.
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
and
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
to make its
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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(MGM), announces the creation of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Hawaii
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to
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
World War II
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: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
* 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attack
Tarakan
Tarakan is an island and the largest city of the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan. The island city is located in northern Borneo, midway along the coast of the province. The city boundaries are co-extensive with the island (including a c ...
in
Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and e ...
,
Netherlands Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, whic ...
Carlo Tresca
Carlo Tresca (March 9, 1879 – January 11, 1943) was an Italian-American newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fas ...
is assassinated in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
* 1957 – The African Convention is founded in
Dakar, Senegal
Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 20 ...
.
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
East River
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...
, linking
New York City
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's boroughs of
The Bronx
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and
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...
Soviet submarine B-37
Soviet submarine ''B-37'' (russian: Б-37) was a Project 641 or diesel submarine of the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet
Severnyy flot
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is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
* 1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in
Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg
, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = National seal
, national_motto = "Firm and Happy f ...
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Myanmar, wit ...
renames itself
Bangladesh
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Major League Baseball
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owners vote in approval of the
American League
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adopting the
designated hitter
The designated hitter (DH) is a baseball player who bats in place of another position player, most commonly the pitcher. The position is authorized by Major League Baseball Rule 5.11. It was adopted by the American League in 1973 and later by t ...
position.
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal en ...
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
– The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm
Sinn Féin
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The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gr ...
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rock ...
's death row based on the
Jon Burge
Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police detective and commander in the Chicago Police Department who was found guilty of having "directly participated in or implicitly approved the torture" of at lea ...
scandal.
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
– One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in
Bulo Marer
Bulo Marer ( so, Buulo Mareer), also written as Bulomarer, is a town in the southwestern Lower Shebelle region of Somalia. It was a base of Al-Shabaab, and was the site of an ill-fated 2013 military operation during which French commandos attempt ...
,
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
COVID-19
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Theodosius I
Theodosius I ( grc-gre, Θεοδόσιος ; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. During his reign, he succeeded in a crucial war against the Goths, as well as in two ...
, Roman emperor (d. 395)
*
889
__NOTOC__
Year 889 ( DCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Guy III, duke of Spoleto, defeats the Lombard king Berengar I at the ...
1113
Year 1113 ( MCXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Siege of Nicaea: Malik Shah, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate o ...
Möngke Khan
Möngke ( mn, ' / Мөнх '; ; 11 January 1209 – 11 August 1259) was the fourth khagan-emperor of the Mongol Empire, ruling from 1 July 1251, to 11 August 1259. He was the first Khagan from the Toluid line, and made significant reform ...
, Mongolian emperor (d. 1259)
* 1322 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1380)
*
1359
Year 1359 ( MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* May 25 – The French States-General repudiates the terms of the Second Treaty o ...
1395
Year 1395 ( MCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1395th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 395th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th yea ...
1503
__NOTOC__
Year 1503 ( MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 20 – Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive rights to trade wit ...
Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw
Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw (11 January 1624 – 20 December 1680]) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
According to Houbraken he was the father of Govert van der Leeuw.1630 – John Rogers, English-American minister, physician, and academic (d. 1684)
*
1638
Events January–March
* January 4 –
**A naval battle takes place in the Indian Ocean off of the coast of Goa at South India as a Netherlands fleet commanded by Admiral Adam Westerwolt decimates the Portuguese fleet.
**A fleet of 80 ...
–
Nicolas Steno
Niels Steensen ( da, Niels Steensen; Latinized to ''Nicolaus Steno'' or ''Nicolaus Stenonius''; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 16861642 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German organist and composer (d. 1710)
* 1650 –
Diana Glauber
Diana Glauber (11 January 1650, Utrecht – c. 1721, Hamburg), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Born on 11 January 1650, Diana Glauber was a Dutch painter. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the Amsterdam chemist Johann Rudo ...
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...
Oliver Wolcott Jr.
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (January 11, 1760 – June 1, 1833) was an American politician and judge. He was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Co ...
, American lawyer and politician, 2nd
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...
, 24th
Governor of Connecticut
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William Thomas Brande
William Thomas Brande FRS FRSE (11 January 178811 February 1866) was an English chemist.
Biography
Brande was born in Arlington Street, London, England, the youngest son of six children to Augustus Everard Brande an apothecary, originally fr ...
, English chemist and academic (d. 1866)
* 1800 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (d. 1895)
* 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and
Cornell University
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Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record ...
, American poet, author, and critic (d. 1878)
*
1839
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre.
* January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years.
* January 9 – ...
–
Eugenio María de Hostos
Eugenio María de Hostos (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as "''El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas''" ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, an ...
, Puerto Rican lawyer, philosopher, and sociologist (d. 1903)
* 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
*
1843
Events January–March
* January
** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
** Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart ...
–
Adolf Eberle
Adolf Eberle (11 January 1843 – 24 January 1914) was a German painter who specialised in genre painting, particularly of Bavarian and Tyrolean farmers and huntsmen.
Biography
Eberle was born in Munich; his father, Robert Eberle, was also a ...
, German painter (d. 1914)
* 1845 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
*
1850
Events
January–June
* April
** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome.
** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States.
* April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city ...
1853
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
* January 8 – Taiping Reb ...
1856
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California.
* January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voya ...
–
Christian Sinding
Christian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano '' Frühlingsrauschen'' (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his succ ...
, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1941)
*
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* Jan ...
Governor-General of India
The Governor-General of India (1773–1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom and after Indian independence in 1 ...
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American White supremacy, white supremacist, Southern Baptists, Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Referred to as a "profess ...
, American minister, lawyer, and politician (d. 1946)
* 1867 –
Edward B. Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: ...
, English psychologist and academic (d. 1927)
* 1868 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1940)
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Br ...
1875
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of th ...
Elmer Flick
Elmer Harrison Flick (January 11, 1876 – January 9, 1971) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1898 to 1910 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Bronchos/ ...
, American baseball player (d. 1971)
* 1876 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1952)
* 1878 –
Theodoros Pangalos
Lieutenant General Theodoros Pangalos (; 11 January 1878 – 26 February 1952) was a Greek general, politician and dictator. A distinguished staff officer and an ardent Venizelist and anti-royalist, Pangalos played a leading role in the Septemb ...
, Greek general and politician,
President of Greece
The president of Greece, officially the President of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρόεδρος της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Próedros tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), commonly referred to in Greek as the President of the Rep ...
Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, w ...
, American activist and suffragist (d. 1977)
* 1887 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (d. 1948)
* 1888 –
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph Berry Keenan (11 January 1888, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island – 8 December 1954, in Asheboro, North Carolina
, American jurist and politician (d. 1954)
* 1889 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (d. 1938)
* 1890 –
Max Carey
Maximillian George Carnarius (January 11, 1890 – May 30, 1976), known as Max George Carey, was an American professional baseball center fielder and manager. Carey played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1910 through 192 ...
, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
* 1890 –
Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born, spent most of his life and died in São Paulo.
Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a m ...
Andrew Sockalexis
Andrew Sockalexis (January 11, 1892 – August 26, 1919) was an American Track and field, track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Andrew Sockalexis was born on January 11, 1892, in Old Town, Maine, a member ...
, American runner (d. 1919)
* 1893 – Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (d. 1969)
* 1893 – Charles Fraser, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1981)
* 1893 – Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
* 1895 –
Laurens Hammond
Laurens Hammond (January 11, 1895 – July 1, 1973), was an American engineer and inventor. His inventions include the Hammond organ, the Hammond clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord.
Youth
Lauren ...
, American engineer and businessman, founded the
Hammond Clock Company
The Hammond Clock Company of Chicago (Illinois) produced electric clocks between 1928 and 1941. It was one of the ventures of Laurens Hammond, the inventor of the famous Hammond organ.
Invention of the Hammond clock motor
As Stuyvesant Barry repo ...
Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) was a British-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A Broadway star by age 21, Le Gallienne gave up her Broadway appearances to devote herself to founding t ...
, English-American actress, director, and producer (d. 1991)
Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels '' Cry, the Beloved Country'' and '' Too Late the Phalarope''.
Family
Paton was born in Pietermaritzbu ...
, South African author and activist (d. 1988)
* 1905 –
Clyde Kluckhohn
Clyde Kluckhohn (; January 11, 1905 in Le Mars, Iowa – July 28, 1960 near Santa Fe, New Mexico), was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the ...
Shane Paltridge
Sir Shane Dunne Paltridge KBE (11 January 1910 – 21 January 1966) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the Menzies Government as Minister for Shipping and Transport (1955–1960), Civil Aviation (1 ...
, Australian soldier and politician (d. 1966)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
– Tommy Duncan, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
* 1911 –
Nora Heysen
Nora Heysen (11 January 1911 – 30 December 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.
Early years
Heyse ...
, Australian painter (d. 2003)
* 1911 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th
Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan ( Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of S ...
(d. 2004)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
Paddy Mayne
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955) was a British Army officer from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Spe ...
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
–
Robert C. O'Brien
Robert Charles O'Brien Jr. (born June 18, 1966) is an American attorney who served as the 27th United States national security advisor from 2019 to 2021. He was the fourth and final person to hold the position during the presidency of Donald Tru ...
, American author and journalist (d. 1973)
* 1918 – Spencer Walklate, Australian rugby league player and soldier (d. 1945)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' bre ...
Jerome Bixby
Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short-story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story " It's a Good Life", which was the basis of a 1961 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' and was included ...
, American author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
* 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)
* 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, engineer, and businessman, founded
Carroll Shelby International
Shelby American, Inc. is an American high performance vehicle manufacturer founded by former race car driver Carroll Shelby. The Shelby American name has been used by several legally distinct corporations founded by Shelby since his original s ...
(d. 2012)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
– Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate
* 1924 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1994)
* 1924 – Slim Harpo, American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1970)
* 1925 – Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises (d. 2016)
* 1926 – Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1998)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
Dmitri Bruns
Dmitri Bruns (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Брунс, ''Dmitry Vladimirovich Bruns''; lv, Dmitrijs Brūns; 11 January 1929 – 21 March 2020) was a Latvia-born Soviet and Estonian architect and architecture theorist of Russ ...
, Estonian architect and theorist (d. 2020)
* 1930 –
Ron Mulock
Ronald Joseph Mulock AO KCSG (11 January 1930 – 4 September 2014) was an Australian politician. A former City of Penrith mayor, he was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1988. He was Depu ...
Betty Churcher
Elizabeth Ann Dewar Churcher (''née'' Cameron; 11 January 193131 March 2015) was an Australian arts administrator, best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right e ...
, Australian painter, historian, and curator (d. 2015)
* 1931 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (d. 2014)
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
Anne Heggtveit
Anne Heggtveit, (born January 11, 1939) is a former alpine ski racer from Canada. She was an Olympic gold medallist and double world champion in 1960.
Early years
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Heggtveit was raised in New Edinburgh, one of the ...
Andres Tarand
Andres Tarand (born 11 January 1940) is an Estonian geographer, climatologist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Social Democratic Party, pa ...
Gérson
Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson (; born 11 January 1941 in Niterói), nicknamed ''Canhotinha de ouro'' (literally: Golden left foot), is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous ...
, Brazilian footballer
* 1942 – Bud Acton, American basketball player
* 1942 –
Clarence Clemons
Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr. (January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011), also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for The E Street Band.
Clemons released several ...
, American saxophonist and actor (d. 2011)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
Shibu Soren
Shibu Soren ( Santali: ᱥᱤᱵᱩ ᱥᱚᱨᱮᱱ) (born 11 January 1944) is an Indian politician who thrice served as Chief Minister of Jharkhand, first in 2005 for 10 days (2 March to 12 March), then from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2009 t ...
, Indian politician, 3rd
Chief Minister of Jharkhand
The Chief Minister of Jharkhand is the chief executive of the Indian state of Jharkhand. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's '' de jure'' head, but '' de facto'' executive authority rests with the chief ...
Naomi Judd
Naomi Judd (born Diana Ellen Judd; January 11, 1946 – April 30, 2022) was an American singer and actress. In 1980, she and her daughter Wynonna (born Christina Claire) formed the duo known as The Judds, which became a very successful countr ...
, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2022)
* 1946 – Tony Kaye, English progressive rock keyboard player and songwriter
* 1946 – John Piper, American theologian and author
* 1947 – Hamish Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
* 1948 –
Fritz Bohla
Fritz Bohla (born 11 January 1948 in Krostitz) is a former German football player and manager.
Bohla made a total of 51 appearances for BSG Energie Cottbus and 1. FC Union Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga
The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East Germ ...
, German footballer and manager
* 1948 –
Joe Harper
Joseph Montgomery Harper (born 11 January 1948) is a Scottish former footballer, mainly remembered for his two spells with Aberdeen, during which he won the three main domestic trophies once each and became the club's record goalscorer with 20 ...
, Scottish footballer and manager
* 1948 – Madeline Manning, American runner and coach
* 1948 –
Wajima Hiroshi
was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Nanao, Ishikawa. He was the sport's 54th '' yokozuna'' and remains the only wrestler with a collegiate background to reach its highest rank. Entering professional sumo in 1970, he won a total of 1 ...
Charlie Huhn
Charles Huhn (born January 11, 1951) is an American rock singer and guitarist. He got his start playing with Vic Amato, Andy Dennen and Al Lesert in the band Cirrus, in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan, playing many gigs in West Michigan befor ...
, American rock singer and guitarist
* 1951 –
Willie Maddren
William Dixon Maddren (11 January 1951 – 30 August 2000) was an English professional football player and manager. A one-club man, he made all his professional club appearances for Middlesbrough between 1968 and 1979, and went on to manage t ...
, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
* 1951 – Philip Tartaglia, Scottish archbishop (d. 2021)
* 1952 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (d. 2013)
* 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer and architect
* 1952 – Michael Forshaw, Australian lawyer and politician
* 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, American author
* 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer, and producer
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
– Big Bank Hank, American rapper (d. 2014)
* 1956 – David Grant, Australian rugby league player (d. 1994)
* 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
* 1957 – Peter Moore, Australian rules footballer and coach
* 1957 –
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBE (born 11 January 1957) is an English football manager and former player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club captain before moving to Manchester United in ...
, English footballer and manager
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
–
Vicki Peterson
Victoria Anne Theresa Peterson Cowsill (born January 11, 1958) is an American rock musician and songwriter. She has been the lead guitarist for the Bangles since their foundation in 1981. After their first disbandment in 1989, she has returned ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1959 – Brett Bodine, American NASCAR driver
* 1959 –
Rob Ramage
George Robert Ramage (born January 11, 1959) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, M ...
, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
–
Lars-Erik Torph
Lars-Erik Torph (11 January 1961 – 23 January 1989) was a Swedish rally driver. He debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1980 and took his first points at his home event, the Swedish Rally, in 1984. Driving a Toyota Celica TCT, a To ...
Susan Lindauer
Susan Lindauer (born July 17, 1963) is an American journalist and former U.S. Congressional staffer who was charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and violating U.S. financial sanctions during the run-up to the 2 ...
, American journalist and activist
* 1962 – Brian Moore, English rugby player
* 1963 – Tracy Caulkins, American-Australian swimmer
* 1963 –
Petra Schneider
Petra Schneider (born 11 January 1963 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) is a former medley and freestyle swimmer from East Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
She won an Olympic gold medal in the 400 m individual medley at the 1980 Summer Ol ...
, German swimmer
* 1964 – Ralph Recto, Filipino lawyer and politician
* 1964 –
Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-up c ...
, French actor and director
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
Marc Acito
Marc Acito (born January 11, 1966) is an American playwright, novelist, and humorist.
Early life
Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Acito was raised in Westfield, New Jersey, and is a 1984 graduate of Westfield High School. He studied in the BFA musi ...
Michael Healy-Rae
Michael Healy-Rae (born 9 January 1967) is an Irish Independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry constituency since 2016, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Kerry South constituency. He previously served as Ch ...
, Irish politician
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
–
Anders Borg
Anders Erik Borg (born 11 January 1968) is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.
Youth and education
Borg was born in Skarpnäck, St ...
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
Manfredi Beninati
Manfredi Beninati is an Italian artist born in Palermo (Sicily) in 1970. A contemporary figurative painter, his oeuvre also covers installations, drawings, sculpture, collage and film.
Biography
After dropping out of both law and film school an ...
, Italian painter and sculptor
* 1970 –
Chris Jent
Christopher Matthew Jent (born January 11, 1970) is an American basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was formerly the head coach of the Bakersfie ...
, American basketball player and coach
* 1970 –
Malcolm D. Lee
Malcolm D. Lee (born January 11, 1970) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing numerous comedy films, including '' The Best Man'' (1999), ''Undercover Brother'' (2002), ''Roll Bounce'' (2005), ''Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins'' (2008), ...
, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
* 1970 –
Ken Ueno
Ken Ueno (born January 11, 1970 in Bronxville, New York) is an American composer.
Career
Ueno pursued initial studies in music at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY, but soon transferred to Berklee College of Music, where he ...
, American composer
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
– Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
* 1971 – Jeff Orford, Australian rugby league player
* 1971 – Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
* 1972 – Christian Jacobs, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
* 1972 –
Anthony Lledo
Anthony Lledo (born 11 January 1972) is a Danish composer.
He has composed music for several films and tv-series and made his feature film debut with the score for the Swedish film ''Frostbite''. His dark thematic orchestral score received wid ...
Cody McKay
Cody Dean McKay (born January 11, 1974) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Oakland Athletics in 2002 and for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.
Biography
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, McKay attended ...
, Canadian baseball player
* 1974 –
Jens Nowotny
Jens Daniel Nowotny (born 11 January 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.
He played in nearly 300 official games with Bayer Leverkusen in one full decade, helping them reach the 2002 Champions League final ...
, German footballer
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Rory Fitzpatrick
Rory Brian Fitzpatrick (born January 11, 1975) is an American politician and former professional ice hockey defenseman who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators, ...
, American ice hockey player
* 1975 – Dan Luger, English rugby player and coach
* 1975 – Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, 56th
Prime Minister of Italy
The Prime Minister of Italy, officially the President of the Council of Ministers ( it, link=no, Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of president of the Council of Ministers is ...
Shane Kelly
Shane John Kelly OAM (born 7 January 1972) is a former professional Australian track racing cyclist. Kelly specialized in the men's 1000 m time trial, commonly known as the Kilo. Kelly announced his retirement from international competition ...
, Australian rugby league player
* 1977 – Olexiy Lukashevych, Ukrainian long jumper
* 1978 – Vallo Allingu, Estonian basketball player
* 1978 –
Holly Brisley
Holly Brisley (born 11 January 1978) is an Australian actress and television presenter. She began her career at the age of 16 on ''Agro's Cartoon Connection'' (1994–97) and more recently portrayed Amanda Vale-Baker on ''Home and Away'' (2005� ...
Henry Shefflin
Henry Shefflin (born 11 January 1979) is an Irish hurling manager and former player who is the current manager of the Galway senior hurling team. In his playing career he was nicknamed "King Henry" because of his directive style, dominance, co ...
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
– Josh Hannay, Australian rugby league player and coach
* 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player
* 1982 – Tony Allen, American basketball player
* 1982 –
Clint Greenshields
Clint Greenshields (born 11 January 1982) is a former France international rugby league footballer who played as a for the St George Illawarra Dragons and the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL, and for the Catalans Dragons in the Super Lea ...
, Australian-French rugby league player
* 1982 – Blake Heron, American actor (d. 2017)
* 1982 – Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
* 1983 – Turner Battle, American basketball player
* 1983 –
André Myhrer
André Myhrer (born 11 January 1983) is a retired Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Born at Bergsjö in Gävleborg County, Myhrer competed in the technical events and specialised in slalom.
Career
Myhrer made hi ...
, Swedish skier
* 1983 – Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
* 1983 –
Adrian Sutil
Adrian Sutil (; born 11 January 1983) is a German-Uruguayan racing driver who raced in Formula One for seven seasons: from 2007–2011, then 2013– 2014. He drove for the Spyker F1 Team, Force India F1 Team and the Sauber F1 Team. He was also ...
Kevin Boss
Kevin Michael Boss (born January 11, 1984) is a former American football tight end. He was drafted in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft by the New York Giants out of Western Oregon University. With the Giants, he won Super Bowl XLII over the ...
, American football player
* 1984 –
Dario Krešić
Dario Krešić (born 11 January 1984) is a Croatian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Panionios
The Croatian shot-stopper spent three seasons (2006–2009) at Panionios F.C., where he made 56 appearances f ...
, Croatian footballer
* 1984 – Matt Mullenweg, American web developer and businessman, co-created
WordPress
WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architectu ...
Newton Faulkner
Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner (born 11 January 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. He is known for his percussive style of guitar playing.
In 2007 Faulkner's debut studio album ''Hand Built by Robots'' was c ...
, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1985 –
Lucy Knisley
Lucy Knisley (born January 11, 1985) is an American comic artist and musician. Her work is often autobiographical, and food is a common theme.
Knisley's drawn travel journal ''French Milk'' was published through Simon & Schuster in October 2008 ...
Scotty Cranmer
Scotty Cranmer (born January 11, 1987) is an American BMX rider. He is tied with Dave Mirra for the most X Games BMX Park medals with nine, three each in gold, silver and bronze over fourteen appearances. He attended Jackson Memorial High School ...
, American Professional BMX rider
* 1987 – Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoer
* 1987 – Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer
* 1987 –
Jamie Vardy
Jamie Richard Vardy ('' né'' Gill; born 11 January 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Leicester City. Regarded as one of the best strikers in the world, Vardy is known for his prolific goalscoring aide ...
, English footballer
* 1987 –
Kim Young-kwang
Kim Young-kwang (, born 28 June 1983) is a South Korean footballer who plays for Seongnam FC as a goalkeeper.
Career
In December 2006 he transferred to Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i in a deal reportedly worth around $2.2m
International career
He ...
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
Kane Linnett
Kane Linnett (born 11 January 1989) is a Scotland international rugby league footballer who plays as a or forward for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.
He has previously played for the Sydney Roosters and the North Queensland Cowboys ...
, Australian rugby league player
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
Andrea Bertolacci
Andrea Bertolacci (; born 11 January 1991) is an Italian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for club US Cremonese, Cremonese.
Bertolacci began his career at A.S. Roma, Roma, and was signed by A.C. Milan, AC ...
Park Junghwan
Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.
Biography Early career
Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the Fujitsu Cup in 2011. Park defeated Lee Chang-ho to advance to ...
Nick Solak
Nicholas Blake Solak (born January 11, 1995) is an American professional baseball second baseman and outfielder for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers and Atlanta Brave ...
Leroy Sané
Leroy Aziz Sané (born 11 January 1996) is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Bayern Munich and the German national team. Considered one of the best wingers in the world, Sané is known for his exceptional pace, dr ...
, German footballer
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
– Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
* 1998 – Thomas Mikaele, New Zealand rugby league player
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Brandon Wakeham
Brandon Wakeham (born 11 January 1999) is a Fiji international rugby league footballer who plays as a or in the National Rugby League (NRL). He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Wests Tigers.
Background
Wakeham was ...
, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
*2000 – Chaeyeon (singer), Lee Chae-yeon, South Korean singer-songwriter
Deaths
Pre-1600
*AD 140, 140 – Pope Hyginus, Bishop of Rome (b. 74)
* 705 – Pope John VI (b. 655)
* 782 – Emperor Kōnin of Japan (b. 709)
* 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine emperor
* 844 – Michael I Rangabe, Byzantine emperor (b. 770)
* 887 – Boso of Provence, Frankish Nobility, nobleman
* 937 – Empress Cao (Li Siyuan's wife), Cao, empress of Later Tang
* 937 – Li Chongmei, prince of Later Tang
* 937 – Li Congke, emperor of Later Tang (b. 885)
* 937 – Empress Liu (Li Congke's wife), Liu, empress of Later Tang
* 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1000)
*1068 – Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen
*1083 – Otto of Nordheim (b. 1020)
*1266 – Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania
*1344 – Thomas Charlton (bishop), Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
*1372 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)
*1396 – Isidore Glabas, Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (b.c. 1341)
*1397 – Skirgaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
*1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian painter (b. 1449)
*1495 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (b. 1428)
*1546 – Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)
*1554 – Min Bin, king of Arakan (b. 1493)
1601–1900
*1641 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (b. 1583)
*1696 – Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary, and explorer (b. 1616)
*1703 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (b. 1632)
*1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French priest and theologian (b. 1637)
*1735 – Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1670)
*1753 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (b. 1660)
* 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688)
*1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695)
*1763 – Caspar Abel, German poet, historian, and theologian (b. 1676)
*1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (b. 1704)
* 1788 – François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
*1791 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh composer and poet (b. 1717)
*1798 – Heraclius II of Georgia (b. 1720)
*1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (b. 1749)
*1824 – Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1736)
*1836 – John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson, Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763)
*
1843
Events January–March
* January
** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
** Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart ...
– Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779)
*1866 – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
* 1866 – John Woolley (educator), John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
* 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
*1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
* 1891 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)
1901–present
* 1902 – Johnny Briggs (cricketer), Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (b. 1862)
*1904 – William Sawyer (politician), William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815)
* 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
– Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844)
* 1923 – Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
– Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (b. 1840)
* 1929 – Elfrida Andrée, Swedish organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1841)
* 1931 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852)
*1937 – Nuri Conker, Turkish colonel and politician (b. 1882)
* 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German mathematician, philosopher, and chess player (b. 1868)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
– Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy), Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903)
* 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian singer (b. 1879)
* 1952 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (b. 1889)
* 1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (b. 1885)
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
– Noe Zhordania, Georgian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1868)
* 1953 – Roberta Fulbright, American businesswoman (b.1874)
* 1954 – Oscar Straus (composer), Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
* 1957 – Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
– Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)
* 1963 – Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
– Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
* 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
* 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
– Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)
* 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1881)
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Max Lorenz (tenor), Max Lorenz, German tenor and actor (b. 1901)
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
– Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
*1981 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889)
* 1985 – Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
* 1985 – William McKell, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal en ...
– Sid Chaplin, English author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
* 1986 – Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
* 1987 – Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
* 1988 – Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1912)
* 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
– Ray Moore (broadcaster), Ray Moore, English radio host (b. 1942)
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
– Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
* 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
– Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
* 1995 – Josef Gingold, Belarusian-American violinist and educator (b. 1909)
* 1995 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (b. 1936)
* 1995 – Lewis Nixon III, Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (b. 1918)
* 1995 – Theodor Wisch, German general (b. 1907)
* 1996 – Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1942)
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
– Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
* 1999 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author and poet (b. 1897)
* 1999 – Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
*2000 – Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911)
* 2000 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
* 2000 – Betty Archdale, English-Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1907)
*2001 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, co-designed the Royal National Theatre (b. 1914)
*2002 – Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian director and playwright (b. 1920)
* 2003 – Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (b. 1932)
*2007 – Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
* 2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
*2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)
* 2008 – Carl Karcher, American businessman, co-founded Carl's Jr. (b. 1917)
*2010 – Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
* 2010 – Éric Rohmer, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1920)
*2011 – David Nelson (actor), David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
*2012 – Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Iranian physicist and academic (b. 1980)
* 2012 – Gilles Jacquier, French journalist and photographer (b. 1968)
* 2012 – Edgar Kaiser, Jr, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1942)
* 2012 – Wally Osterkorn, American basketball player (b. 1928)
* 2012 – Steven Rawlings, English astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1961)
* 2012 – David Whitaker (composer), David Whitaker, English composer and conductor (b. 1931)
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
– Guido Forti, Italian businessman, founded the Forti, Forti Racing Team (b. 1940)
* 2013 – Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Leaders of South Vietnam, President of South Vietnam (b. 1927)
* 2013 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
* 2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935)
* 2013 – Alemayehu Shumye, Ethiopian runner (b. 1988)
* 2013 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer and activist (b. 1986)
*2014 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)
* 2014 – Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Indian-Bangladeshi jurist and politician, List of Prime Ministers of Bangladesh, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1928)
* 2014 – Chai Trong-rong, Taiwanese educator and politician (b. 1935)
* 2014 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
*2015 – Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
* 2015 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress (b. 1931)
* 2015 – Chashi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi director and producer (b. 1941)
* 2015 – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1918)
*2016 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
* 2016 – David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
*2017 – Adenan Satem, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (b. 1944)
*2018 – Edgar Ray Killen, American murderer (b.1925)
*2019 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (b.1929)
Holidays and observances
* Children's Day (Tunisia)
* Christian feast day:
** Anastasius of Suppentonia (Roman Catholic)
** Leucius of Brindisi (Roman Catholic)
** Mary Slessor (Church of England)
** Paulinus II of Aquileia
** Pope Hyginus
** Theodosius the Cenobiarch
** Thomas of Cori
** Vitalis of Gaza (Roman Catholic)
** January 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Eugenio María de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)
* Public holidays in Morocco, Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)
* Kagami biraki (Japan)
* National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (
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* Republic Day (Albania)
* Carmentalia (January 11th and January 15th) (Rome)
* Prithvi Jayanti (Nepal)