January 11

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[edit] Events

• 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1158 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
• 1571 - Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
• 1693 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta
• 1879 - The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1972 - East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 1994 - The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.

[edit] Births

• 347 - Flavius Theodosius, Roman emporor (d. 395)
• 1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
• 1503 - Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
• 1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
• 1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
• 1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
• 1815 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
• 1897 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
• 1934 - Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada.

[edit] Deaths

• 314 - St. Miltiades
• 705 - Pope John VI
• 802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
• 812 - Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
• 844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
• 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
• 1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria
• 1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
• 1994 - Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
• 2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the first person to climb Mt Everest in 1953(b. 1919)