Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 11

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  French troops in the Ruhr
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  Carlo Tresca
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  Enver Hoxha
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  Byzantine coin depicting Theodora
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  William Herschel
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  Gateway Bridge
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  Luther Terry
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  Syracuse Cathedral

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Blurb	Reason
1879 – British forces under Lord Chelmsford invaded Zululand without authorisation from the British Government, beginning the Anglo-Zulu War.	needs more footnotes
1914 – The largest volcano explosion in 20th-century Japan began amidst a series of earthquakes, causing the volcanic island of Sakurajima to join to the mainland at Kagoshima and 58 deaths.	Uncited section
1922 – Insulin was first administered to a human patient with diabetes at the Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Canada.	appears on July 27
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attacked Manado on present-day Sulawesi Island as an attempt to open up a passage to attack Australia through the eastern part of Dutch East Indies.	needs more footnotes
1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, committed his only confirmed murder, although he confessed to killing about 600 and was convicted of eleven homicides.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1055 – Theodora Porphyrogenita (pictured) became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire after the death of her brother-in-law Constantine IX Monomachos.
• 1787 – German-born British astronomer William Herschel discovered two Uranian moons, later named Oberon and Titania by his son John.
• 1820 – A conflagration in Savannah, Georgia, destroyed over 400 buildings and caused millions of dollars in damages.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Arkansas Post concluded with the Union Army capturing a fort from Confederate forces near the mouth of the Arkansas River.
• 1912 – Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, went on strike in response to a pay cut corresponding to a new state law shortening the working week.
• 1923 – Troops from France and Belgium invaded the Ruhr to force the Weimar Republic to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I.
• 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, hosted 36 people involved in the film industry at a banquet, where he announced the creation of what would become the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• 1943 – Italian-American journalist and trade-union activist Carlo Tresca, a leading public opponent of the Mafia infiltration of unions, was assassinated in New York City.
• 1946 – The People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed, with Enver Hoxha as the country's de facto head of state.
• 1961 – Students at the University of Georgia rioted in an attempt to prevent two African American students from attending the school.
• 1986 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, opened as the largest prestressed-concrete, single-box bridge in the world.
• 2013 – French special forces failed in an attempted rescue of a DGSE agent, who had been taken hostage in 2009 by al-Shabaab, in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
• 2024 – Several thousand North Korean migrant workers in Helong engaged in civil unrest, including a factory occupation and the taking of managers as hostages, due to unpaid wages.
• Born/died: |Domenico Ghirlandaio |d|1494| Nicolas Steno |b|1638| Vincenzo Borg |b|1777| Bayard Taylor |b|1825| John Molson |d|1836| Alice Paul |b|1885| Jean Chrétien |b|1934| Peter Badcoe |b|1934| Fukushiro Nukaga |b|1944| Roberta Fulbright |d|1953| Emile Heskey |b|1978| Cody Simpson |b|1997| Tom Parry Jones |d|2013

Notes

• Galilean moons appears on January 7, so Uranian moons should not appear in the same year

January 11: Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1654 – Arauco War: The Mapuche-Huilliche of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the Battle of Río Bueno.
• 1693 – The most powerful earthquake recorded in Italy struck the island of Sicily, causing 60,000 deaths and prompting a period of architectural revival.
• 1914 – The Karluk, the flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sank after being crushed by ice.
• 1964 – In a landmark report (cover pictured), U.S. surgeon general Luther Terry issued a warning that tobacco smoking may be hazardous to health, concluding that it has a causative role in lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and other illnesses.
• 2003 – After Chicago police detective Jon Burge was discovered to have extracted forced confessions from more than 200 suspects, the governor of Illinois commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners and pardoned four others.