Editing January 11 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[Grand Canyon National Park|Grand Canyon National Monument]] is created.
*[[1912]] &ndash; Immigrant textile workers in [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]], [[1912 Lawrence Textile Strike|go on strike]] when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poirier|first=Clarisse A.|chapter=The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence's Mill Men and Won in 1912|title=The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912|editor1-last=Forrant|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Siegenthaler|editor2-first=Jurg K.|location=Amityville, N.Y.|publisher=Baywood Publishing Co.|date=2014|isbn=9780895038616|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_-nDQAAQBAJ|page=48}}</ref>
*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[HMCS Karluk|''Karluk'']], flagship of the [[Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916|Canadian Arctic Expedition]], [[Last voyage of the Karluk|sinks after being crushed by ice]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link= Robert Bartlett (explorer)|last= Bartlett|first= Robert|author2=Ralph Hale |url= https://archive.org/details/lastvoyageofkarl00bartuoft|title= The Last Voyage of the ''Karluk''|publisher= McLelland, Goodchild and Stewart|location= Toronto|year= 1916 |pages=90&ndash;91}}</ref>
*[[1917]] &ndash; The [[Kingsland Explosion|Kingsland munitions factory explosion]] occurs as a result of [[sabotage]].
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Leonard Thompson (diabetic)|Leonard Thompson]] becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Louis B. Mayer]], head of film studio [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM), announces the creation of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], at a banquet in [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Slide|first=Anthony|title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=1998|isbn=9781579580568|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnzsAgAAQBAJ|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first person to fly solo from [[Hawaii]] to [[California]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] forces [[Battle of Kuala Lumpur|capture Kuala Lumpur]], the capital of the Federated Malay States.
*  1942 &ndash; World War II: Japanese forces attack [[Tarakan Island|Tarakan]] in [[Dutch Borneo|Borneo]], [[Dutch East Indies|Netherlands Indies]] ([[Battle of Tarakan (1942)|Battle of Tarakan]])
*[[1943]] &ndash; The [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] agrees to the [[Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China|Sino-British New Equal Treaty]] and the [[Sino-American Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China|Sino-American New Equal Treaty]].
*  1943 &ndash; Italian-American anarchist [[Carlo Tresca]] is assassinated in [[New York City]].
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Enver Hoxha]], Secretary General of the [[Party of Labour of Albania|Communist Party of Albania]], declares the [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|People's Republic of Albania]] with himself as head of state.
*[[1949]] &ndash; The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as [[KDKA-TV]] in [[Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
*[[1957]] &ndash; The [[African Convention]] is founded in [[Dakar|Dakar, Senegal]].
*[[1959]] &ndash; 36 people are killed when [[Lufthansa Flight 502]] crashes on approach to [[Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport]] in Brazil.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation D-ALAK Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, RJ (GIG) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19590111-0 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Throgs Neck Bridge]] over the [[East River]], linking [[New York City]]'s boroughs of [[The Bronx]] and [[Queens]], opens to road traffic.
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: While tied to its pier in [[Russian Shipyard Number 10|Polyarny]], the [[Soviet submarine B-37]] is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
*  1962 &ndash; An avalanche on [[Huascarán]] in [[Peru]] causes around 4,000 deaths.<ref>{{cite news |title=1962: Thousands killed in Peru landslide |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_3306000/3306665.stm |access-date=10 January 2020 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1966]] &ndash; The [[Tbilisi Metro]] is opened.<ref name="TTC History">{{cite web |title=Tbilisi Transport Company History |url=http://ttc.com.ge/index.php/en/history |access-date=19 July 2020 |website=ttc.com.ge |publisher=Tbilisi Transport Company}}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[East Pakistan]] renames itself [[Bangladesh]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Major League Baseball]] owners vote in approval of the [[American League]] adopting the [[designated hitter]] position.
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 2885]] crashes after takeoff from [[Detroit Metropolitan Airport]], killing three.<ref name="ntsb2">{{cite web |date=October 31, 1983 |title=United Airlines Flight 2885, N8053U, McDonnell Douglas DC-8-54F, Detroit, Michigan, January 11, 1983 |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8307.pdf |access-date=February 8, 2015 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-83/07}} - [https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR83-07.pdf Copy at] [[Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University]].</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; The [[Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges|Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia]] is officially opened.
*[[1994]] &ndash; The [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the [[Official Irish Republican Army|IRA]] and its political arm [[Sinn Féin]].
*[[1995]] &ndash; 51 people are killed in a [[Intercontinental de Aviación Flight 256|plane crash]] in [[María La Baja]], Colombia.<ref name="safety5">{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-9-14 HK-3839X Maria La Baja |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950110-1 |access-date=2019-03-08 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[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 ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Warnock |first=Lynda |title=STS-72 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-72.html |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=www.nasa.gov |publisher=NASA}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; Over 100 people are killed in the [[Sidi-Hamed massacre]] in [[Algeria]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_4075000/4075725.stm|title=1998: 100 die in massacre in Algeria|date=January 11, 1998|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Governor of Illinois|Illinois Governor]] [[George Ryan]] commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on [[Illinois]]'s death row based on the [[Jon Burge]] scandal.
*[[2013]] &ndash; One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a [[Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt|failed attempt]] to free a French hostage in [[Bulo Marer]], [[Somalia]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei]]: Municipal health officials in [[Wuhan]] announce the first recorded death from [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=9 August 2021 |title=Covid-19 Pandemic Timeline Fast Facts |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/health/covid-19-pandemic-timeline-fast-facts/index.html |access-date=2022-01-11 |website=CNN}}</ref>