11 Januar

The **11t o Januar** is the 11t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 354 days ti come (355 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1693 - A major yirdquauk hits the island o Sicily.
* 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania an Oberon, two muins o Uranus.
* 1805 - The Michigan Territory is creatit.
* 1861 - Alabama secedes frae the Unitit States.
* 1866 - Breetish passenger ship "London" sinks in a storm in the Bay o Biscay, killin 220 oot o 239 fowk on baird.
* 1908 - US Preses Theodore Roosevelt maks the Grand Canyon a Naitional Monument.
* 1919 - Romanie annexes Transylvanie.
* 1922 - First use o insulin tae treat a human diabetes patient.
* 1935 - Amelia Earhart flies solo frae Californie tae Hawaii.
* 1942 - Warld War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur.
* 1943 - The Unitit States an Unitit Kinrick give up territorial richts in Cheenae.
* 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares Albanie tae be a Fowkrepublic.
* 1949 - Poland gains areas previously pairt o Germany east o the Oder-Neisse Line.
* 1954 - 135 fowk are kilt in a series o avalanches in Vorarlberg, Austrick.
* 1962 - An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru kills 4,000 fowk.
* 1972 - East Pakistan chynges its name tae Bangladesh.
* 1981 - Cantabrie becomes an autonomous community o Spain.
* 1998 - Ower 100 fowk are kilt in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algerie.
* 2015 - Many fowk mairch in Paris efter the Charlie Hebdo shuitin on 7 Januar.
* 2015 - Tennis: Roger Federer achieves his 1,000t career victory.
* 2016 - Arlene Foster becomes First Meenister o Northren Ireland.
* 2018 - US Preses Donald Trump is involved in a racism controversy ower comments he is said tae hae made aboot fowk frae Haiti, El Salvador an African kintras.
* 2019 - Scots tennis player Andy Murray propales his intention tae retire frae his playin career, ower problems wi a hip injury.
* 2020 - Northren Ireland's pouer-sharin govrenment is reinstatit efter three year; Arlene Foster o the DUP returns as First Meenister, while Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill becomes Deputy First Meenister.
* 2020 - Tsai Ing-wen is re-electit Preses o the Republic o Cheenae.
* 2021 - The Democrats launch impeachment proceedins agin US Preses Donald Trump on groonds o incitin the riot at the Unitit States Capitol biggin on 6 Januar.
* 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide gets tae 90 million.

## Births

* 347 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (d. 395)
* 1695 - Francis Scott, 2nt Duke o Buccleuch, Scots nobleman (d. 1751)
* 1757 - Alexander Hamilton, American politeecian (d. 1804)
* 1784 - Thomas Hamilton, Scots airchitect (d. 1858)
* 1803 - William Baird, Scots medicinar an zoologist (d. 1872)
* 1811 - John Imray, Scots medicinar, legislator, agriculturist an botanist (d. 1880)
* 1815 - John A. Macdonald, Scots-born politeecian, 1st Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1891)
* 1842 - William James, American philosopher an psychologist (d. 1910)
* 1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
* 1924 - John Bonnar, Scots fitbawer (d. 2004)
* 1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor (d. 2015)
* 1934 - Jean Chrétien, 20t Prime meenister o Canadae
* 1948 - Joe Harper, Scots fitbawer
* 1951 - Philip Tartaglia, Scots airchbeeshop (d. 2021)
* 1954 - Kailash Satyarthi, Indian activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
* 1962 - Steve Hislop, Scots motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
* 1964 - Yolanda Hadid, Dutch-American telly personality an model
* 1971 - Mary J. Blige, American sangster
* 1972 - Amanda Peet, American actress
* 1975 - Matteo Renzi, umwhile Prime meenister o Italy
* 1977 - Emile Heskey, Inglis fitbawer
* 1981 - Jamelia, Inglis sangster
* 1987 - Jamie Vardy, Inglis fitbawer
* 1992 - Dani Carvajal, Spaingie fitbawer 
* 1994 - Rebekka Findlay, Scots badminton player

## Daiths

* 705 - Pape John VI (b. 655)
* 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian penter (b. 1449)
* 1812 - Henry Scott, 3rd Duke o Buccleuch, Scots nobleman (b. 1746)
* 1892 - James Dunlop, Scots fitbawer (b. 1870)
* 1923 - Constantine I o Greece (b. 1868)
* 1928 - Thomas Hardy, Inglis writer (b. 1840)
* 1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
* 1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime meenister o Indie (b. 1904)
* 1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss airtist an sculptor (b. 1901)
* 1988 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American pheesicist (b. 1898)
* 1991 - Carl David Anderson, American pheesicist (b. 1905)
* 1993 - Tommy Walker, Scots fitbawer (b. 1915)
* 1999 - Naomi Mitchison, Scots novelist an poet (b. 1897)
* 2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand muntaneer an splorer (b. 1919)
* 2013 - Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer an internet activist (b. 1986)
* 2014 - Ariel Sharon, Prime meenister o Israel (b. 1928)
* 2015 - Anita Ekberg, Swadish actress (b. 1931)

## Halidays

* Burnin the Clavie (Scotland)
* Republic Day (Albanie)
* Kagami Biraki (Japan)
* Day o Naitional Unity (Nepal)