WillDekkard
01-11-2011, 04:07 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - January 11th
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* 630 Prophet of Islam Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 Muslims to conquer Mecca.
* 1055 Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1158 Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
* 1569 First recorded lottery in England.
* 1571 Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
* 1693 Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
* 1759 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
* 1779 Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
* 1787 William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
* 1794 Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
* 1805 The Michigan Territory is created.
* 1861 Alabama secedes from the United States.
* 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
* 1863 American Civil War: CSS Alabama encountered and sank the USS Hatteras (1861) off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
* 1878 Milk is first delivered in bottles.
* 1879 The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
* 1912 The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
* 1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
* 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania.
* 1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
* 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
* 1927 Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
* 1935 Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
* 1942 World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
* 1942 World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
* 1943 World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
* 1943 Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
* 1946 Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as president.
* 1949 First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
* 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
* 1957 Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed in Colorado by gas chamber.
* 1960 Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
* 1962 An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
* 1964 United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
* 1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
* 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
* 1990 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
* 1994 The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fιin.
* 1996 Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
* 1998 Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
* 2005 9 people die in the Black Tuesday bushfire on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
* 2007 China conducts the first successful anti-satellite missile test of any nation since 1985.
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Happy Birthday Amanda !
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Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972)
This Date in History - January 11th
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* 630 Prophet of Islam Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 Muslims to conquer Mecca.
* 1055 Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1158 Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
* 1569 First recorded lottery in England.
* 1571 Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
* 1693 Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
* 1759 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
* 1779 Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
* 1787 William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
* 1794 Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
* 1805 The Michigan Territory is created.
* 1861 Alabama secedes from the United States.
* 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
* 1863 American Civil War: CSS Alabama encountered and sank the USS Hatteras (1861) off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
* 1878 Milk is first delivered in bottles.
* 1879 The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
* 1912 The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
* 1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
* 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania.
* 1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
* 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
* 1927 Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
* 1935 Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
* 1942 World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
* 1942 World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
* 1943 World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
* 1943 Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
* 1946 Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as president.
* 1949 First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
* 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
* 1957 Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed in Colorado by gas chamber.
* 1960 Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
* 1962 An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
* 1964 United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
* 1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
* 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
* 1990 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
* 1994 The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fιin.
* 1996 Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
* 1998 Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
* 2005 9 people die in the Black Tuesday bushfire on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
* 2007 China conducts the first successful anti-satellite missile test of any nation since 1985.
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Happy Birthday Amanda !
http://www.satfix.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=7992&d=1294718753
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972)