11 January
Notable Births
Elly De La Cruz
b. 2002
Dominican baseball player (born 2002)
Lee Chae-yeon
b. 2000
South Korean singer and dancer (born 2000)
Jeanette Hegg Duestad
b. 1999
Norwegian sport shooter (born 1999)
Lim Sung-jin
b. 1999
South Korean volleyball player (born 1999)
Brandon Wakeham
b. 1999
Fiji international rugby league footballer
Thomas Mikaele
b. 1998
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Leroy Sané
b. 1996
German footballer (born 1996)
Nick Solak
b. 1995
American baseball player (born 1995)
Chris Boucher (basketball)
b. 1993
Saint Lucian-Canadian basketball player (born 1993)
Park Junghwan
b. 1993
South Korean Go player
Michael Keane (footballer, born 1993)
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Will Keane
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Dani Carvajal
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Lee Seung-hoon (rapper)
b. 1992
South Korean rapper (born 1992)
Andrea Bertolacci
b. 1991
Italian professional footballer (born 1991)
Malik Jackson (defensive lineman)
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Demario Davis
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Kane Linnett
b. 1989
Scotland international rugby league footballer
Epiphanny Prince
b. 1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Naomi Judd
b. 1946
American country singer, songwriter, and actress (1946–2022)
Notable Deaths
Richard Codey
d. 2026
American politician (1946–2026)
Carole Cook
d. 2023
American actress (1924–2023)
Michael Atiyah
d. 2019
British-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019)
Edgar Ray Killen
d. 2018
Ku Klux Klan organizer convicted of manslaughter (1925–2018)
Adenan Satem
d. 2017
Malaysian politician (1944–2017)
Monte Irvin
d. 2016
American baseball player (1919–2016)
Jenő Buzánszky
d. 2015
Hungarian football player and manager (1925–2015)
Anita Ekberg
d. 2015
Swedish actress (1931–2015)
Chashi Nazrul Islam
d. 2015
Bangladeshi film director
Keiko Awaji
d. 2014
Japanese actress (1933–2014)
Muhammad Habibur Rahman
d. 2014
Bangladeshi statesman (1928–2014)
Chai Trong-rong
d. 2014
Taiwanese politician (1935–2014)
Ariel Sharon
d. 2014
Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006
Nguyễn Khánh
d. 2013
South Vietnamese military supreme ruler (1927–2013)
Mariangela Melato
d. 2013
Italian actress (1941–2013)
Tom Parry Jones
d. 2013
Welsh scientist, inventor and entrepreneur (1935–2013)
Aaron Swartz
d. 2013
American computer programmer and activist (1986–2013)
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
d. 2012
Iranian nuclear scientist (1979–2012)
Wally Osterkorn
d. 2012
American basketball player
Steven Rawlings
d. 2012
British astrophysicist
On This Day in History
All 49 ›2020
COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19.
COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei
2013
One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt
2003
Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
Governor of Illinois
1998
Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
Sidi-Hamed massacre
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.
Space Shuttle program
1995
51 people are killed in a plane crash in María La Baja, Colombia.
Intercontinental de Aviación Flight 256
1994
The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
Republic of Ireland
1986
The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges
1983
United Airlines Flight 2885 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing three.
United Airlines Flight 2885
1977
The first episode of Finnish children's TV show Pikku Kakkonen ("Little Number Two") is aired on Yle TV2.
Pikku Kakkonen
1973
Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
Major League Baseball
1972
East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
East Pakistan
1966
The Tbilisi Metro is opened.
Tbilisi Metro
1964
Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
Surgeon General of the United States
1962
Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
Cold War
1962
An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
Huascarán
1961
Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
Throgs Neck Bridge
1959
36 people are killed when Lufthansa Flight 502 crashes on approach to Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport in Brazil.
Lufthansa Flight 502
1957
The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
African Convention
1949
The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
KDKA-TV