49BCE
Jan 11, Julius Caesar
led his army across the Rubicon, plunging Rome into civil war. [see Mar
10]
(HN, 1/11/99)
1569
Jan 11, The 1st
recorded lottery in England was drawn in St Paul's Cathedral.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1684
Jan 11, In Switzerland this day
“was so
frightfully cold that all of the communion wine froze," said an entry
by
Brother Josef Dietrich, governor and "weatherman" of the Einsiedeln
Monastery. The Einsiedeln abbots, princes within the Holy Roman Empire
until
1798, were powerful leaders who ruled over large swaths of central
Switzerland's mountainous terrain.
(AP, 9/15/07)
1693
Jan 11,
Sicily’s Mt. Etna erupted.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1757
Jan 11, Alexander Hamilton,
first U.S. Secretary of Treasury, was born on St. Croix.
After showing remarkable promise in
finance, the young Hamilton was sent by a benefactor to King’s College
in New
York. In 1776, Hamilton joined the Continental Army, where he soon
joined
George Washington’s staff. After the war, Hamilton became active in New
York
politics, gaining a reputation as a supporter of a strong central
government.
In the struggle for the ratification of the Constitution, Hamilton
collaborated
with James Madison and John Jay in writing the Federalist Papers, which
were
instrumental in the passage of the Constitution. In 1789, newly elected
President George Washington named Hamilton secretary of the treasury.
During
his tenure, Hamilton established the National Bank, introduced an
excise tax,
suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion and spearheaded the effort for the
federal
government to assume the debts of the states. In the presidential
election of
1800, Hamilton broke the deadlock between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron
Burr by
supporting Jefferson. The enmity between Hamilton and his longtime
political
enemy Burr grew worse during the 1804 campaign for governor of New
York.
Finally, on July 11, at Weehawken, N.J., the two men fought a duel.
Hamilton
was shot and died the next day of his injuries.
(WUD, 1994 p.640)(AP, 1/11/98)(HN,
1/11/00)(HNPD, 1/11/00)
1775
Jan 11, In
South Carolina Francis Salvador became the 1st Jew elected to office in
America.
[see Aug 1]
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1785
Jan 11,
Continental Congress convened in NYC.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1787
Jan 11, Titania and Oberon, moons of
Uranus, were discovered by
William Herschel.
(www.skyhound.com/george.html)
1797
Jan 11, Francis
Lightfoot Lee (62), US farmer and signer Declaration of Independence,
died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1801
Jan 11,
Domenico Cimarosa (51), Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1803
Jan 11, Monroe
and Livingston sailed for Paris to buy New Orleans; they ended up
buying Louisiana.
[see Dec 20, 1802]
(MC, 1/11/02)
1805
Jan 11, The Michigan Territory
was created.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1807
Jan 11, Ezra
Cornell, founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University
(NY), was
born in Westchester, NY.
(AP, 1/11/07)
1813
Jan 11, The 1st
pineapples were planted in Hawaii (or 1/21).
(MC, 1/11/02)
1815
Jan 11, Sir John A. Macdonald,
the first prime minister of Canada, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1837
Jan 11, John
Field (54), Irish pianist, composer (Nocturnes), died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1837
Jan 11,
Francois Gerard (66), French baron, painter, died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1843
Jan 11, Francis Scott Key (63),
poet of "The Star-Spangled Banner," died in Baltimore.
(HN, 1/11/99)(MC,
1/11/02)
1861
Jan 11, Alabama became the 4th
state to secede from the Union.
(AP, 1/11/98)(HN, 1/11/99)
1862
Jan 11, Lincoln accepted Simon
Cameron's resignation as Secretary of War.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1863
Jan 11, Union
forces captured Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1863
Jan 11, The Confederate ship
Alabama under Capt. Semmes flew a British flag and lured the USS
Hatteras out
of Galveston harbor. The Hatteras was quickly sunk.
(ON, 9/01, p.10)
1864
Jan 11, H. George Selfridge,
founder of the British store Selfridge and Co., Ltd., was born. He was
the
first to say "the customer is always right."
(HN, 1/11/99)
1864
Jan 11, Charing
Cross Station opened in London.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1865
Jan 11, Battle
of Beverly, WV.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1866
Jan 11,
Steamship London sank in storm off Land's End England and 220 people
died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1874
Jan 11, Gail Borden (b.1801),
inventor of condensed milk, died in Borden, Tx. Epitaph: “I tried and
failed, I
tried again and again and succeeded.”
(ON, 5/04, p.5)(
www.famoustexans.com/GailBorden.htm)
1879
Jan 11, The
Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa began. [see Jan
12]
(MC, 1/11/02)
1887
Jan 11, At Fort Smith, Ark.,
hang man George Maledon dispatched four more victims in a multiple
hanging.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1891
Jan 11, Georges-Eugene Haussmann
(b.1809), French town planner, died. He designed modern-day Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Haussmann)
1902
Jan 11, Maurice
Durufle, French organist, composer, was born.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1903
Jan 11, Alan Patton, South
African novelist who wrote "Cry, the Beloved Country," was born.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1904
Jan 11, British troops massacred
1,000 dervishes in Somaliland.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1906
Jan 11, Albert
Hoffmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD in 1943), was born.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1908 Jan 11, The Grand Canyon National Monument was created with a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt. It became a national park in 1919.
(AP, 1/11/08)
1913
Jan 11, The first sedan-type
automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in
New York.
(AP, 1/11/99)
1916
Jan 11, Russian General Yudenich
launched a WWI winter offensive and advanced west.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1922
Jan 11,
Insulin, then called isletin, was 1st used to treat diabetes on Leonard
Thompson (14) of Canada. [see Jan 23]
(www.insulinfreetimes.org/00_spring/giants.htm)
1923
Jan 11, The French entered Essen
in the Ruhr. They were there to extract Germany's resources as war
payment.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1928
Jan 11, Leon
Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik revolution and early architect of
the Soviet
state, was shipped out by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in
remote
Soviet Central Asia. Later he was banished from the USSR.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1928
Jan 11, Thomas
Hardy (87), English novelist, died near Dorchester. His books included
“Far
from Maddening Crowd” (1874) and “Jude the Obscure” (1895). In 2006
Claire
Tomalin authored “Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy)(Econ, 11/11/06, p.96)
1934
Jan 11, Jean Chretien, Pres. of
Canada, was born.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A20)
1934
Jan 11, The German police raided
the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1935
Jan 11, Aviator Amelia Earhart
began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman
to fly
solo across the Pacific Ocean.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1940
Jan 11, Sergei
Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet premiered in Leningrad.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1941
Jan 11, Adolf Hitler ordered
forces to be prepared to enter North Africa to assist the Italian
effort,
marking the establishment of the Afrika Korps.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1941
Jan
11, Emanuel Lasker (b.1868), German mathematician and chess player,
died. In
1927 he authored “Lasker’s Manual of Chess.”
(WSJ,
3/22/08, p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker)
1942
Jan 11, Japan declared war
against the Netherlands, the same day that Japanese forces invaded the
Dutch
East Indies (later Indonesia) at Borneo.
(AP, 1/11/98)(HN, 1/11/00)
1943
Jan 11, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt flew to Morocco for a top-secret
meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He had not flown
since
1932, when he traveled from Albany, New York, to Chicago to accept his
nomination
at the Democratic national convention. No U.S. president had previously
flown
while in office because the Secret Service regarded flying as a
dangerous mode
of transport. Air travel was the only realistic option for the trip to
Casablanca because German submarines lurking in the Atlantic made a
surface
crossing too risky.
(HNQ, 4/8/02)
1943
Jan 11, The United States and
Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1943
Jan 11, The Soviet Red Army
encircled Stalingrad.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1944
Jan 11, Jerome Morse (d.2001 at
80), B-17 navigator, was shot down over Germany and became a POW for 1
½ years.
In 1959 Pres. Eisenhower demonstrated Morse’s invention of the 1st
miniaturized, portable nuclear power generator, used for space vehicles.
(SFC,
12/15/01, p.A25)
1944
Jan 11,
Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp was established.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1946
Jan 11, Naomi
(Diane) Judd, Grammy Award-winning singer: duo: The Judds, was born:
Why Not
Me, Have Mercy, LP: Heartland; mother of singers, Wynonna,
Ashley-actress.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1948
Jan 11, President Harry S Truman
proposed free, two-year community colleges for all who wanted an
education.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1949
Jan 11, Surrender talks in China
between the Nationalists and Communists opened as Tientsing was
virtually lost
to the Communists.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1954
Jan 11, Oscar
Straus (83), Austrian composer (The Chocolate Soldier), died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1959
Jan 11,
Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 year old pyramid, died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1961
Jan 11, There
was a race riot at the University of Georgia.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1963
Jan 11, The 1st
discotheque opened, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1964
Jan 11, Some of Pablo Picasso
works that have never been seen before went on exhibit in Toronto.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1964
Jan 11, U.S. Surgeon General
Luther Terry issued the first major government report saying smoking
may be
hazardous to one's health. The US surgeon-general announced that
smoking
contributes substantially to mortality.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(WSJ, 4/12/96,
p.A-12)(AP, 1/11/98)(WSJ,
1/27/04,
p.A1)
1966
Jan 11, In
Brazil 550 died in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after
rain.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1966
Jan 11, Albert
Giacometti (64), Swiss-French painter and sculptor, died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1967
Jan 11, Segregationist Lester
Maddox (1915-2003) was inaugurated as governor of
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Maddox)
1972 Jan 11, The TV movie "Kolchak, The Night Stalker" aired for the first time. It was followed by a series of 22 episodes that ended Mar 28, 1975.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0067490/)
1972
Jan 11, East-Pakistan
became the independent state of Bangladesh. [see Dec 16, 1971]
(MC, 1/11/02)
1973
Jan 11, Owners of American
League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a
trial
basis.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1973
Jan 11, The Dow Jones Industrials
hit a peak of 1051.70. The market then began a 24 month decline of 46%.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(SFC,10/17/97,
p.B2)
1977
Jan 11, France set off an
international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of
involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich
Olympics. In
1999 Mohammed Oudeh, aka Abu Daoud, published an autobiography in
France in
which he admitted to playing a mastermind role in the 1972 Munich
hostage
episode.
(AP, 1/11/98)(SFC, 6/14/99, p.A14)
1978
Jan 11, Two Soviet cosmonauts
aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space
station,
where the Soyuz 26 capsule was already docked.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1980
Jan 11, Honda announced that it
would build Japan's first U.S. passenger-car assembly plant in Ohio.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1981
Jan 11, The Oakland Raiders
defeated the San Diego Charges 34-27 in the AFC championship game.
(http://nfl-playoffs,-1980-81.iqnaut.net/)
1988
Jan 11, Alexandria,
Danielle, Erica, Raymond and Veronica L'Esperance, the first US test
tube
quintuplets, were born in Royal Oak, Michigan.
(www.threebluestars.com/multiples/quintuplets.html)
1988
Jan 11, Vice President George
Bush met with representatives of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh
to
answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1988
Jan 11, Gregory
"Pappy" Boyington (75), World War II flying ace died in Fresno,
Calif.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1988
Jan 11, The Soviet Union
announced it would participate in the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1989
Jan 11, President Reagan bade
the nation farewell in an address from the Oval Office.
(AP, 1/11/99)
1989
Jan 11, A
kindergarten student was caught with loaded handgun at a Bronx school.
(http://tinyurl.com/zldce)
1990
Jan 11, Soviet President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev visited Lithuania, where he sought to assure supporters of
independence that they would have a say in their republic's future.
(AP,
1/11/00)
1991
Jan 11, The United States and
Iraq intensified their rhetoric, with Secretary of State James A. Baker
III
telling Air Force pilots in Saudi Arabia, “We pass the brink at
midnight January
15,” and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein boasting of his army’s
readiness. Congress
empowered Bush to order attack on Iraq.
(AP, 1/11/01)(MC,
1/11/02)
1992
Jan 11, The
president of Algeria (Chadli Bendjedid) resigned, two weeks after
Muslim fundamentalists
had defeated his ruling party in legislative elections.
(AP, 1/11/02)
1993
Jan 11, Former independent
presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returned to politics,
recruiting
Americans for a watchdog group that, he told CNN, would counter special
interests
that were preventing government reform and deficit reduction.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1994
Jan 11, NATO leaders concluded a
summit in Belgium by warning Bosnian Serbs of their willingness to
order
bombing raids in former Yugoslavia to relieve embattled Muslim
enclaves.
President Clinton, who attended the summit, then traveled to the Czech
Republic
for a short visit.
(AP, 1/11/99)
1994
Jan 11, John
Bradley (70), raised US flag at Iwo Jima (1945), died.
(www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingc.htm)
1995
Jan 11, President Clinton and
Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama held a low-key summit in
Washington,
playing down differences over trade.
(AP,
1/11/00)
1995
Jan 11, A 9-year-old girl
survived a Colombian airliner crash that killed the other 52 people
aboard near
the Caribbean resort of Cartagena.
(AP,
1/11/00)
1996
Jan 11, Addressing pointed
questions about the first lady, President Clinton offered a rousing
defense of
his wife, Hillary, during a news conference.
(AP, 1/11/01)
1996
Jan 11, The space shuttle
“Endeavour” blasted off on a nine-day mission.
(AP, 1/11/01)
1996
Jan 11, The Little Mt. Zion
Baptist Church in Green Co., Ala., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996
Jan 11, The Mt. Zoar Baptist
Church in Green Co., Ala., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations
by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996
Jan 11, Ryutaro Hashimoto was
chosen the new prime minister of Japan.
(AP, 1/11/01)
1996
Jan 11, Funeral services were
held for former French president Francois Mitterrand.
(AP, 1/11/01)
1996
Jan 11, In Peru Lori Berenson
was sentenced to life in prison. In 2000 a military tribunal overturned
the
life sentence and opened the way for a civilian trial.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A10) (WSJ, 8/28/00,
p.A1)
1997
Jan 11, President Clinton
summoned top administration officials to a daylong planning session for
his
second term.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1997
Jan 11, In Burundi soldiers shot
and killed 126 Burundian Hutu refugees trying to break out of a holding
camp in
the northeast. Seven soldiers were arrested for the slayings.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.A12)
1997
Jan 11, An earthquake of
magnitude 7.3 shook Mexico City, the western and central areas, and the
southern part of Mexico, but no deaths were reported.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.A2)(AP, 1/11/98)
1998
Jan 11, The Denver Broncos beat
the Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-21, to win the American Football Conference
Championship; the Green Bay Packers defeated the San Francisco 49ers,
23-10, to
claim the National Football Conference Championship.
(AP, 1/11/99)
1998
Jan 11, Klaus
Tennstedt (71), conductor, died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1998
Jan 11, In Algeria 11 more
people were killed over the weekend.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A1)
1998
Jan 11, From China it was
reported that parrots had become a speculative rage in Beijing where a
green-faced parrot could fetch $2,400.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.A29)
1998
Jan 11, In Northern Ireland
Terry Enwright (28), a relative of Gerry Adams, was slain outside the
Space
nightclub in Belfast. The Protestant Loyalist Volunteer Force claimed
responsibility.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A10)
1998
Jan 11, In Lahore, Pakistan, 24
Shiite Muslims were killed in an attack
by the Sipah-e-Sahabah (Friends of the Guardians of the Prophet), a
militant
Sunni group. The Shiites were at a ceremony marking the 2-year
anniversary of
the death of their teacher, Mohammed Hussein Rizwan.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A10)
1998
Jan 11, In the UAR a large oil
spill resulted when an 11,000-ton oil barge ran aground. Some 4,000
tons
spilled on beaches and threatened marine and bird life.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A12)
1999
Jan 11, President Clinton and
House Republicans clashed in impeachment trial papers, with the White
House
claiming the perjury and obstruction allegations fell short of high
crimes and
misdemeanors and GOP lawmakers rebutting: "If this is not enough, what
is?"
(AP,
1/11/00)
1999
Jan 11, Hillary Clinton unveiled
a new silver commemorative dollar in honor of Dolly Madison. The coin,
designed
by Tiffany, was the first to honor a first lady but was not legal
tender.
(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A3)
1999
Jan 11, US planes fired missiles
at 2 Iraqi defense installations after determining that they were about
to be
attacked by surface to air missiles.
(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A8)
1999
Jan 11, In Haiti Pres. Preval
announced that he would bypass the Parliament and appoint a new
government by
decree.
(SFC, 1/13/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 11, In Kosovo Enver Maloku,
the head of the Kosovo Information Center, was shot and killed by 3
assassins
in Pristina.
(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A8)
2000
Jan 11, Pres. Clinton signed a
proclamation for the Grand Parashant National Monument with 1.014
million acres
along the northern boundary of the Grand Canyon; the 71,100 acre Agua
Fria
National Monument near Phoenix; and the California Coastal National
Monument,
which includes thousands of islands, rocks and reefs along the 840 mile
California coast.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/12/00,
p.A4)
2000
Jan 11, Whittling away more of
the federal government’s power over states, the US Supreme Court ruled,
5-to-4,
that state employees cannot go into federal court to sue over age bias.
(AP, 1/11/01)
2000
Jan 11, Carlton Fisk and Tony
Perez were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 1/11/01)
2000
Jan 11,
Algeria’s Pres. Bouteflika gave a blanket pardon to all members of the
Islamic
Salvation Army 2 days before a deadline for all Islamic militants to
lay down
their arms.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A11)
2000
Jan 11, Britain and Iran signed
a joint declaration to fight terrorism and drug trafficking, promote
trade and
strengthen ties.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A11)
2000
Jan 11, An EU court ruled in
favor of a German woman who claimed that a German constitutional ban
against
women bearing arms amounts to sexual discrimination.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A11)
2000
Jan 22, In East Timor UN
investigators found the bodies of 8 people in a mass grave. This
brought the
total number of bodies recovered since Sep to about 200.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A11)
2000
Jan 11, In Russia acting Pres.
Putin announced a 20% increase in pensions ahead of the Mar 26
elections.
(SFC, 1/12/00, p.A11)
2001
Jan 11, Pres.-elect Bush chose
Elaine Chao, a former head of the peace Corps and United Way, to serve
as
secretary of labor after Linda Chavez withdrew. Bush chose Robert Zoellick to be the US
trade representative.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A1,12)(AP,
1/11/02)
2001
Jan 11, James Riady, Indonesian
businessman, agreed to pay an $8.6 million US fine and pleaded guilty
for
arranging $500,000 in illegal donations to Pres. Clinton and others.
(WSJ, 1/12/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 11, The US Army premiered
its new slogan “An Army of one” on the TV sitcom “Friends.”
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.B3)
2001
Jan 11, The US Army blamed the
“fog of war” in apology and acknowledgement that US soldiers massacred
248
refugees at No Gun Ri in South Korea in 1950.
(SSFC, 12/30/01,
p.D2)(AP, 1/11/02)
2001
Jan 11, The FCC approved the
$106 billion merger of America Online (AOL) and Time Warner.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A1)
2002
Jan
11, Frank Gruttadauria (44), Lehman Brothers stockbroker, was last seen
in Cleveland.
It was later reported that $300 million were missing from the accounts
of some
2 dozen Lehman clients. Gruttadauria turned himself in Feb 9.
(WSJ,
2/8/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A15)
2001
Jan 11, FedEx agreed to handle
most of the Postal Services air transportation in a $6.3 billion deal.
(WSJ, 1/2/02,
p.R12)
2001
Jan 11, Unisys, Dell and
Microsoft announced an agreement to jointly create an electronic voting
system.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.B1)
2001
Jan 11, Researchers in Oregon
reported the 1st genetically altered monkey produced to contain a
jelly-fish
gene for florescence.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 11, In Oklahoma Wanda Jean
Allen (41) was executed for 2 murders. This was the 1st execution of an
African
American woman since 1954.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A6)
2001
Jan 11, In China state media
reported at least 27 people dead from a New years Day blizzard in inner
Mongolia.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)
2001
Jan 11, In the Czech Republic
Jiri Hodac resigned as the chief of television. Over 50,000 protestors
continued to demonstrate in Wenceslas Square for guarantees of
political independence
for public television.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A17)
2001
Jan 11, Israeli and Palestinian
high level peace talks resumed as Israel lifted the blockade of West
Bank towns
of Qalqilyah and Jenin and reopened the Palestinian airport in Gaza.
Palestinian travel from the West Bank to Jordan and from Gaza to Egypt
was
opened.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A16)
2002
Jan
11, Alan Greenspan said the US economy is still vulnerable.
(SFC,
1/12/02, p.A1)
2002
Jan
11, The first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived
at a
U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba.
(AP,
1/11/03)
2002
Jan
11, Ford Motor Co. announced it was eliminating 35,000 jobs, closing
five
plants and dropping four models.
(SFC,
1/12/02, p.B1)(AP, 1/11/03)
2002
Jan
11, Frank Gruttadauria (44), Lehman Brothers stock broker, was last
seen in
Cleveland. It was later reported that $300 million were missing from
the
accounts of some 2 dozen Lehman clients. Gruttadauria turned himself in
Feb 9.
(WSJ,
2/8/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A15)
2002
Jan
11, In Argentina the peso sank 40% on its 1st day of floating trade
after 11
years of being tied to the U.S. dollar.
(SFC,
1/12/02, p.A14)(AP, 1/11/03)
2002
Jan
11, Israeli tanks and bulldozers plowed up runways at the Gaza Int’l.
Airport.
Palestinian police detained 2 Palestinian officials suspected of
smuggling arms
into Gaza.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A3)(SFC, 1/12/02, p.A6)
2002
Jan
11, In Russia an appeals court ordered the liquidation of TV-6, the
country’s
last major independent TV channel.
(SFC,
1/12/02, p.A2)
2003
Jan 11, In
Illinois out-going Gov. Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 Death Row
inmates
one day after he freed 4 death row inmates. He called the death
penalty
process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral." The 4
death row inmates had all been convicted on evidence gathered by police
Lt. Jon
Burge. In 2008 Burge was arrested and charged with lying when he denied
in 2003
that he and detectives under his command tortured murder suspects.
(SFC, 1/11/03,
p.A3)(SSFC, 1/12/03, p.A1)(AP,
1/11/08)(SFC, 10/22/08,
p.A3)
2003
Jan 11, Afghan
warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum released 50 members of the Taliban militia
captured
during fighting more than a year ago.
(AP, 1/12/03)
2003
Jan 11, The
death toll from Bangladesh's coldest winter in six years reached 489. A
three-week cold spell in South Asia with near freezing temperatures
aggravated
by chilly winds raised the total death toll to 779.
(AP, 1/11/03)
2003
Jan 11, In
Brazil mudslides caused by torrential rains near Rio de Janeiro left 17
dead.
(AP, 1/12/03)
2003
Jan 11, In
Chechnya 4 Russian servicemen were killed in clashes, while 4 soldiers
died
when their vehicles struck land mines.
(AP, 1/12/03)
2003
Jan 11, In northern
China an explosion ripped through a coal mine, leaving 34 people
missing a day
after a blast in a neighboring province killed 8 miners.
(AP, 1/11/03)
2003
Jan 11, It was
reported that former combatants from Liberia and Sierra Leone were
pouring into
Ivory Coast to fight with the rebels.
(SFC, 1/11/03, p.A8)
2003
Jan 11, Japan's
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, wrapping up a three-day visit to the
Russian
capital, called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons in an address
at a
leading atomic energy research center.
(AP, 1/11/03)
2003
Jan
11, North Korea said it might end a self-imposed moratorium on missile
testing
and warned that it was ready to "mercilessly wipe out" other nations
that infringe upon its sovereignty. North Korea withdrew from the
Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
(AP,
1/11/03)(SFC, 6/28/08, p.A3)
2003
Jan 11,
Philippine army troops have occupied a southern mountain village in
Sultan Kudarat
province after driving away a large group of Moro Islamic separatists
and a
kidnap gang in fierce clashes that killed at least 20 rebels and allies.
(AP, 1/12/03)
2003
Jan 11, Another
Turkish prisoner died on a hunger strike, raising the death toll in the
protest
against Turkey's maximum security prisons to 64 people.
(AP, 1/12/03)
2004
Jan 11, Former Treasury Sec.
Paul O'Neill charged in a new book that Pres. Bush entered office in
Jan. 2001
intent on invading Iraq and was in search of a way to go about it. Former WSJ reporter Ron Suskind wrote
"The Price of Loyalty," based on 7,630 journal entries provided by
O'Neill.
(AP, 1/11/04)(WSJ, 1/12/04,
p.B1)(WSJ, 1/16/04, p.W6)
2004
Jan 11, Democrat Howard Dean defended his record
on race in the last debate before
the Iowa caucuses, as he was forced to acknowledge that no blacks or
Hispanic
had served in his cabinet during his 12 years as governor of Vermont.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2004
Jan 11, In Iran the 12-member
Guardian Council, which comprises conservatives picked by Iran's
supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, disqualified about 900 of the 1,700 people who
wanted
to contest seats in Tehran have been disqualified. About 90 lawmakers
began
gathering in the lobby of the legislature for five hours daily in a
sit-in
demonstration after the Guardian Council barred the candidates from the
Feb. 20
elections.
(AP, 1/12/04)(AP, 1/14/04)
2004
Jan 11, U.S. paratroopers
captured Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad, a former regional Baath Party
chairman and
militia commander a former Baath Party official who was No. 54 on the
list of
55 most-wanted figures from Saddam Hussein's regime.
(AP, 1/14/04)
2004
Jan 11, Danish and Icelandic
troops reported a cache of 36 shells buried in the Iraqi desert, and
preliminary tests showed they contained a liquid blister agent. The
120mm
mortar shells are thought to be left over from the eight-year war
between Iraq
and neighboring Iran, which ended in 1988.
(AP, 1/11/04)
2005
Jan 11, Pres.
Bush named Michael Chertoff, longtime prosecutor, to take over as head
of Homeland
Security.
(WSJ, 1/12/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan
11, LeapFrog Enterprises displayed a $99 digital pen that talks,
corrects spelling
and answers math problems. Sales were to begin in the Fall.
(WSJ,
1/12/05, p.B1)
2005
Jan
11, Spencer Dryden (66), former drummer for the Jefferson Airplane
(1967-1970),
died in Petaluma, Ca. Dryden also played with the Grateful Dead
(1971-1978),
whose albums included “The Adventures of Panama Red” (1973).
(SFC, 1/13/05, p.B6)
2005
Jan 11, James
Griffin (61),
founding member of 1970s pop group Bread, died in Franklin, Tenn.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2005
Jan 11, At least eight people were
killed in a
wildfire that raced through southern Australia’s Eyre Peninsula,
forcing
terrified residents to leap into the sea to avoid the flames.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, A strike by workers and a
demonstration
that drew hundreds of thousands of people paralyzed Santa Cruz as
Bolivia's
largest city joined an anti-government protest that has elicited a
pledge from
the president to resign if things turn violent. The protests forced the
government
to cancel water concessions to a foreign firm.
(AP, 1/12/05)(WSJ,
1/12/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan 11, Gunmen on a motorbike in
northern Colombia
killed Julio Hernando Palacios, a radio journalist known for his tough
talk
against corruption.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, Costa
Rica Pres. Abel Pacheco
signed a decree of national emergency after 3 days of heavy rains
forced nearly
13,000 people from their homes and killed at least one person. Panama
reported
2 dead.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, The EU and the US agreed to
settle their
dispute over subsidies to Airbus SA and Boeing Co. through bilateral
talks
rather than asking the WTO to resolve it.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, Indonesia's military chief
extended a new
cease-fire offer to rebels in the tsunami-stricken Aceh province, and
residents
in Sri Lanka were told not to rebuild near the coast.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, PM Allawi acknowledged that
parts of Iraq
will not be safe enough for people to vote on Jan 30. A roadside bomb
that
missed a passing U.S. military convoy killed 7 Iraqis and wounded one
south of
Baghdad. A suicide car bomb at police headquarters in Tikrit killed 6.
Insurgent
attacks across Iraq left 19 people dead.
(AP, 1/11/05)(SFC,
1/12/05, p.A1)(SFC,
1/12/05, p.A10)
2005
Jan 11, Mudslides in Tijuana,
Mexico, killed 3 children and damaged 140 homes.
(SFC, 1/13/05, p.A3)
2005
Jan 11, Palestinian militants in
the Gaza Strip
launched a barrage of homemade rockets and mortar rounds at Jewish
towns and
settlements, hours after newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
extended his hand in peace to Israel.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, Russia's Federal Statistics
Service said
inflation was 11.7 per cent in 2004, slower than the 12 per cent rate
for 2003
but still above government's target.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, The Ukrainian parliament
called for an
immediate withdrawal of the nation's peacekeepers from Iraq. The vote
was
non-binding but reflected growing national dismay over the mission.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 11, Fighting raged on in
Sudan's western Darfur
region where despite a peace accord ending a separate conflict in
southern
Sudan.
(AP, 1/12/05)
2006
Jan
11, The US Interior Dept. agreed to open
some 400,000
acres on Alaska’s North Slope for exploratory oil drilling.
(SFC, 1/12/06, p.A6)
2006
Jan
11, Latin American and US scientists reported that as many as 112
species of
frogs have disappeared since 1980. Some 65 amphibian species in Central
and
South America had also disappeared. Global warming was suspected.
(SFC,
1/12/06, p.A7)
2006
Jan
11, The Asia Pacific
Partnership on Clean Development and Climate opened in Sidney. It
brought
together senior ministers from the US,
Australia,
Japan, China, South
Korea and India, along with executives
from energy and resource firms. The US and Australia insisted at the opening
of a two-day climate change conference that industry leaders can be
relied upon
to voluntarily slash emissions blamed for heating the earth's
atmosphere.
(AP,
1/11/06)
2006
Jan
11, British PM Tony
Blair said that Western countries were likely to seek economic
sanctions
against Iran after Tehran restarted its nuclear program, but a powerful
cleric
said it would not curtail its research.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan
11, Samir Ait Mohamed,
an Algerian-born man accused of helping in the plot to bomb the Los
Angeles
airport on the millennium, was quietly deported from Canada to an
unknown
destination after years fighting for refugee status there.
(AP, 1/13/06)(WSJ,
1/14/06, p.A1)
2006
Jan 11, New customs figures
indicated that China's
trade surplus surged to $101.9 billion in 2005, more than triple the
$32
billion gap recorded the year before.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan 11, The WHO said 2 more people
sickened by bird flu in China
have died, bringing the total number of humans killed by the disease in
the
country to five.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan
11, Congo officials said
a new constitution for was approved by a landslide vote, paving the way
for
historic presidential and parliamentary elections in March.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan
11, Egypt released 164
Sudanese migrants who were detained last month when police evicted them
from a
city park in a violent operation that brought international
condemnation.
(AP, 1/12/06)
2006
Jan 11, In Egypt a tour bus
carrying Australian tourists
overturned on a wet highway, killing six people and injuring at least
24.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan
11, In Georgia a court
convicted a man of trying to assassinate President Bush and the leader
of
Georgia during a rally last year, and it sentenced him to life in
prison.
Vladimir Arutyunian (27) also was convicted of killing a policeman
during a
shootout while authorities were trying to arrest him several weeks
after the
May 10, 2005, grenade incident.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan
11, In Haiti clashes
between gangs and UN peacekeepers reportedly killed one person and
wounded at
least 17.
(AP, 1/12/06)
2006
Jan 11, In Indonesia police arrested 12 suspects in the killings
of 2 American teachers in a 2002 ambush. The suspects include Anthonius
Wamang,
who was indicted by a US grand jury in 2004 on two counts of murder,
eight
counts of attempted murder and other related offenses in connection
with the
slayings.
(AP, 1/12/06)
2006
Jan 11, In Iraq US troops in
Baghdad killed 6 insurgents, including 2 wearing explosive belts.
(WSJ, 1/12/06, p.A1)
2006
Jan 11, Felipe Calderon,
ruling-party presidential
hopeful, registered his campaign with election officials, saying he
understands
the problems facing common Mexicans and will stem the flow of migrants
who head
north in search of higher-paying jobs.
(AP, 1/12/06)
2006
Jan
11, The Mongolian
People’s Revolution Party (MPRP) pulled out of the government, accusing
the
current leadership of failing to fight corruption and worsening poverty
in the
former communist country. The move would leave the government without
the
minimum number of seats required to stay in power.
(AP, 1/12/06)
2006
Jan
11, In Nigeria gunmen
stormed an offshore oil platform run Royal Dutch Shell and kidnapped
four
foreign oil workers. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian
Delta
(MEND) claimed responsibility. The four were freed nearly three weeks
later.
(Econ, 1/21/06,
p.47)(AP,
1/11/07)
2006
Jan 11, The British weekly New
Scientist said Norway
is to build a "doomsday vault" in a mountain close to the North Pole
that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event
of
catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels.
(AFP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan 11, Pakistani security forces
killed 12
suspected militants in a gunfight following the deaths of 3 soldiers
whose
vehicle struck a land mine in the country's restive southwest.
(AP, 1/11/06)
2006
Jan 11, In Russia a knife-wielding
man (20) shouting "I
will kill Jews!" attacked a synagogue in downtown Moscow, slashing and
stabbing at 9 people before the son of a rabbi wrestled him to the
ground. In
September Alexander Koptsev was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
(AP, 1/11/06)(Econ,
5/13/06, p.59)(AP,
9/15/06)
2006
Jan 11, Rebel sources said Sudanese
troops had
entered Hamesh Koreb, a town in eastern Sudan, and threatened to evict
ex-southern rebels in a move that could threaten a landmark year-old
peace
deal.
(AFP, 1/11/06)
2007
Jan 11, President Bush's plan to send more troops to
Iraq ran into a wall of criticism on Capitol Hill as administration
officials
drew confrontational challenges from both Democrats and Republicans.
(AP, 1/11/08)
2007
Jan 11, The US government said
Canadian coins with
tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside were found planted on
US
contractors with classified security clearances on at least three
separate
occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors
traveled
through Canada.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan
11, A US federal judge ruled that the Vatican can be sued for damages
by US victims
of clerical sex abuse.
(WSJ,
1/12/07, p.A1)
2007
Jan 11, The Pentagon said it has
abandoned its
limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active
duty, a
major change that reflects an Army stretched thin by
longer-than-expected
combat in Iraq.
(AP, 1/12/07)
2007
Jan 11, Fourteen members of an
advisory board to
Jimmy Carter's human rights organization resigned to protest his new
book,
"Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has been attacked as unfairly
critical of Israel and riddled with inaccuracies.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, NATO forces overnight
fought two large
groups of suspected Taliban militants crossing the border from
Pakistan, and
scores of insurgents were killed.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, An Argentine judge ordered
the arrest of
the third wife of former political strongman Juan Domingo Peron, saying
he has
questions about her chaotic 20-month rule, a time when shadowy
right-wing
violence destabilized Argentina ahead of her political downfall. Isabel
Peron
has lived in exile in Spain since 1981.
(AP, 1/12/07)
2007 Jan 11, Iajuddin Ahmed, the president of Bangladesh, declared a state of emergency following weeks of violent protests and threats by a political alliance to disrupt general elections. Gen. Masud Uddin Chowdhury led a coup and forced the president to cancel elections and declare a state of emergency. Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed was sworn in as head of Interim government.
(http://tinyurl.com/6zr23k)AP, 1/11/07)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.54)(Econ,
11/8/08,
p.58)
2007
Jan 11, Protesters seeking the
ouster of a Bolivian
state governor for his opposition to leftist President Evo Morales
battled with
the governor's supporters in clashes that left two dead and more than
60 injured.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, Brazilian prosecutors
sought the
extradition of two church leaders arrested in the United States on
money
smuggling charges.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, The Bank of England (BoE)
raised British
interest rates by a quarter of a point to 5.25 percent to fight
inflation.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, China destroyed its Feng Yun 1-C, an aging weather satellite
launched in 1999, with a ballistic missile 537 miles above the Earth.
The
impact created about 28% of the junk currently floating in space. The
US halted
such tests in 1985 for fear of creating debris deadly to spacecraft.
(WSJ, 1/19/07, p.A1)(Econ,
1/27/07, p.38)(Econ,
1/19/08,
p.26)
2007
Jan 11, Former Ethiopian dictator
Mengistu Haile
Mariam was sentenced to life imprisonment, ending his 12-year trial in
absentia
for genocide and other crimes committed during his iron-fisted rule
(1974-1991). Mariam lived comfortably in exile in Zimbabwe, where Pres.
Robert
Mugabe has said he won't deport Mengistu if he refrains from political
activity.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, Indonesian police raided a
house on Sulawesi Island
where several alleged Islamic militants were staying, sparking a fierce
gun and
bomb battle that left one suspected terrorist dead.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, In Iraq US-led
multinational forces detained six
Iranians at Tehran's diplomatic mission in the northern city of Irbil.
A
suicide truck bomber hit the house of the head of the municipal council
in
Samarra, killing three people and wounding 33. Gunmen killed a
professor
driving home from the University of Mosul. Suspected Sunni insurgents
set fire
to a large oil pipeline in northern Iraq, interrupting the flow from
the Kirkuk
oil fields.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
ended a visit to
China after talks with Chinese leaders on Iran's nuclear program and
efforts to
boost trade and economic ties.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, The Nigerian military said
it has recovered
the body of an officer who was abducted last week in the country's
southern oil
producing region.
(AFP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, Oil flowed again through
the main pipeline
from Russia to Europe after Moscow and Belarus agreed to settle a
dispute that
has hurt Russia's reputation as an energy supplier.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, South Korean officials said
that the bird
flu virus had been transmitted to a human during a recent outbreak
among
poultry, but the person showed no symptoms of disease.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, The UN Security Council
said it backs the
speedy deployment of African troops to Somalia and strongly urges a
dialogue
among all political players, in addition to the delivery of
humanitarian aid to
the country.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 11, Vietnam became the 150th
member of the
World Trade Organization (WTO), a milestone expected to launch an era
of
radical change as the communist nation enters the global economic
mainstream.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2008 Jan 11, Bank of America said it will buy Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion in stock, a deal that rescues the country's biggest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank.
(AP, 1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11, A historic passenger jet flight from
(AP, 1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11,
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11,
(AFP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11,
(Reuters,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan 11, The EU food-safety
agency endorsed meat and milk derived from cloned animals.
(WSJ, 1/12/08, p.A1)
2008
Jan
11, In
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11, The World Bank uncovered serious incidents of fraud and corruption
in about
$750 million of health projects it has funded in
(WSJ,
1/14/08,
p.A1)
2008
Jan 11, In
(SFC, 1/12/08, p.A6)
2008
Jan
11, President Bush had tears in his eyes during an
hour-long tour
of
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11,
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
11, In
(AP,
1/11/08)(AFP, 1/13/08)
2008
Jan
11, In central
(AP,
1/12/08)
2008
Jan
11, In Nigeria MEND, the prominent militant group in the
oil-rich
Niger Delta, said it planted an explosive device that set a tanker on
fire in
(AFP,
1/11/08)
2009 Jan 11, At the Golden Globe awards, "Slumdog Millionaire" emerged as the potential film to beat at the Academy Awards, an unexpected position for a movie with a cast of unknowns and a story set among orphans and criminals on the streets of Mumbai. The late Heath Ledger won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for “The Dark Knight.”
(AP, 1/12/09)(WSJ, 1/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 11, A US federal rule took effect allowing visitors to carry a loaded gun into a park or wildlife refuge as long as the person had a permit for a concealed weapon and the state where the park or refuge was located allowed concealed firearms. Previously, guns in parks had been severely restricted. The Bush administration had issued the gun rule in December in response to letters from half the Senate asking officials to lift the restrictions on guns in parks that were adopted by the Reagan administration in the early 1980s. On March 19 a US district Judge blocked the rule.
(SFC, 3/20/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 11, South Korea’s Hyundai Genesis was named North American Car of the Year and the Ford F-150 as the 2009 North American Truck of the Year. The awards were first given in 1994. This was the first time a Korean automaker has won.
(Econ, 3/7/09, p.71)(www.northamericancaroftheyear.org/)
2009 Jan 11, Marcus Schrenker's plane went down en route to Destin, Fla., from Anderson, Ind. Schrenker (38), an Indiana investment manager, had reported that the windshield imploded and that he was bleeding profusely. Federal marshals believe he faked a distress call before parachuting from his plane over Alabama and disappearing on a motorcycle he had stashed in advance. US Marshals apprehended Schrenker on Jan 13 at a northern Florida campground. Officers had to tend to Schrenker's self-inflicted gash to the wrist before he was airlifted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. In August Schrenker pleaded guilty was sentenced in Florida to 4 years and 3 months in federal prison.
(AP,
1/13/09)(AP, 1/14/09)(SFC, 8/20/09, p.A4)
2009 Jan 11, Australia's Defense Ministry said its special forces in Afghanistan had killed Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Rasheed, who had been involved in recruiting suicide bombers and foreign fighters in Uruzgan province.
(AP,
1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, In Indonesia scores of people were feared dead after a ferry carrying more than 260 passengers and crew sank in stormy seas off Sulawesi island.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, In Iraq US soldier Pfc. Sean McCune died of a non-combat related injury near Samarra north of Baghdad. Sgt. Miguel A. Vegaquinones later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the accidental shooting death of McCune. Vegaquinones was sentenced in July to three years in jail for the shooting. A US Marine died in a non-combat related incident west of Baghdad.
(AP, 1/12/09)(SFC, 1/12/09, p.A3)
2009 Jan 11, Israeli troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip's most heavily populated area, encountering increasingly fierce resistance from Islamic Hamas fighters as they warned civilians to stay clear of the battle zone. Human Rights Watch said that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, In northwestern Pakistan security forces repulsed an attack by 600 fighters, most of whom had crossed the border from Afghanistan, leaving at least 40 militants and 6 soldiers dead and scores of others wounded.
(AP, 1/11/09)(SFC, 1/12/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 11, An estimated 2,500 Lebanese and Palestinians protested peacefully in downtown Beirut against Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, as hundreds of demonstrators in neighboring Syria shouted insults at the both the Jewish state and Arab leaders.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and one wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the restive oil-rich Niger Delta. Police said the attack might be connected with the police seizure of a vessel, the Sandra Valleta, which was carrying stolen crude oil.
(AFP, 1/12/09)
2009 Jan 11, Arne Naess (b.1912), Norwegian philosopher, writer and mountaineer, died. He was best known for launching the concept of "deep ecology," promoting the idea that Earth as a planet has as much right as its inhabitants, such as humans, to survive and flourish.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 11, Russia, Ukraine, and the EU struck an agreement to try to resume Russian supplies through Ukraine to Europe. President Dmitry Medvedev said energy giant Gazprom would only resume gas supplies once Russia had a copy of the document signed by Ukraine and once the various teams of international observers were in place. The text of the accord calls for the EU, Russia and Ukraine to each provide 25 experts to "carry out checks on the basis of equal parity both on Ukrainian and Russian territory.
(Reuters, 1/11/09)(AFP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, Slovakia reopened a nuclear power plant it was forced to shut down as part of its bid to join the European Union, prompting condemnation from neighboring Austria, which described the reactor at Bohunice as unsafe.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, In central Somalia clashes between Islamist militias killed at least 29 people and wounded more than 50 others. It was the latest sign of divisions within an Islamist insurgency the US government says has links to al-Qaida.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, New Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva's government won the most seats in by-elections, strengthening his shaky coalition in its first test at the polls.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 11, A Turkish court formally arrested 12 more people for ties to an alleged secularist plot by ultranationalists to bring down the Islamic-rooted government, bringing the total of people implicated in the case to more than 100.
(AP, 1/11/09)