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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11" title="January 11">January 11</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prithvi_Jayanti" title="Prithvi Jayanti">Prithvi Jayanti</a></b> in Nepal
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1055" title="1055">1055</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Porphyrogenita" title="Theodora Porphyrogenita">Theodora Porphyrogenita</a></b> became the sole ruler of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> after the death of her brother-in-law <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_IX_Monomachos" title="Constantine IX Monomachos">Constantine IX Monomachos</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1787" title="1787">1787</a> – German-born British astronomer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a> discovered two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus" title="Moons of Uranus">Uranian moons</a>, later named <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(moon)" title="Oberon (moon)">Oberon</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania_(moon)" title="Titania (moon)">Titania</a></b> by his son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel">John</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arkansas_Post_(1863)" title="Battle of Arkansas Post (1863)">Battle of Arkansas Post</a></b> concluded with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> capturing a fort from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate forces</a> near the mouth of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas River</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a> – Troops from France and Belgium <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr" title="Occupation of the Ruhr">invaded the Ruhr</a></b> to force the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_reparations" title="World War I reparations">pay reparations</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_I" title="Aftermath of World War I">aftermath of World War I</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – French special forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulo_Marer_hostage_rescue_attempt" title="Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt">failed in an attempted rescue</a></b> of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_External_Security" title="Directorate-General for External Security">DGSE</a> agent, who had been taken hostage in 2009 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">al-Shabaab</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buulo_Mareer" title="Buulo Mareer">Bulo Marer</a>, Somalia.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Ghirlandaio" title="Domenico Ghirlandaio">Domenico Ghirlandaio</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1494); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Taylor" title="Bayard Taylor">Bayard Taylor</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1825); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Badcoe" title="Peter Badcoe">Peter Badcoe</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1934)</p>
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