Historical Events on January 11.

1. 1613, 11th Jan: Mughal emperor Jahangir allowed the East India Company to set up a factory in Surat.

2. 1759, 11th Jan: The first life insurance company launched in Philadelphia, USA.

3. 1787, 11th Jan: William Herschel discovered the moons of Uranus, Titania, and Oberon.

4. 1922, 11th Jan: Insulin was used for the first time to treat diabetes.

5. 1942, 11th Jan: Japan annexed Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

6. 1966, 11th Jan: Gulzarilal Nanda became the caretaker Prime Minister of India.

7. 1972, 11th Jan: East Pakistan renamed itself Bangladesh.

8. 1972, 11th Jan: Abu Saeed Chaudhary became the first President, and Sheikh Mujib Ur-Rehman became the first Prime Minister in Bangladesh.

9. 1999, 11th Jan: Ordinance issued by the Central Government for repealing the Maximum Landholding Act.

10. 2000, 11th Jan: Establishment of Chhattisgarh High Court.

11. 2001, 11th Jan: S. P. Bharucha became the 30th Chief Justice of India.

12. 2009, 11th Jan: Slumdog Millionaire received Best Film Award at the 66th Golden Globe Awards.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 11.

1. 1755: Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

2. 1815: Sir John Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada. 

3. 1842: William James, an American philosopher, and psychologist.

4. 1859: Lord Curzon, British diplomat and Viceroy of India.

5. 1898: Vi. Sa. Khandekar, an Indian Marathi writer.

6. 1944: Shibu Soren, an Indian politician who thrice served as Chief Minister of Jharkhand.

7. 1951: M. J. Akbar, an Indian journalist, and politician.

8. 1954: Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian social reformer.

9. 1958: Babulal Marandi, an Indian Politician. He was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand.

10. 1973: Rahul Dravid, a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. 

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 11.

1. 1928: Thomas Hardy, an English novelist, and poet.

2. 1954: John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, a British politician.

3. 1966: Lal Bahadur Shastri, an Indian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of India.

4. 1978: Ibn-e-Insha, an Indo-Pakistani Urdu poet, humorist, travelogue writer and newspaper columnist.

5. 1997: Bhabatosh Datta, a noted Indian economist, academic, and writer.

6. 2008: Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. He became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. 

11-January-1613

Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.

11-January-1858

Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.

11-January-1859

Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.

11-January-1921

Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, drama writer and journalist, passed away.

11-January-1955

Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.

11-January-1958

Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.

11-January-1960

Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.

11-January-1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

11-January-1966

Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India. He held this position till January 24, 1966.

11-January-1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the "Bharat Ratna".

11-January-1973

Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore.

11-January-1975

Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.

11-January-1986

The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.

11-January-1986

The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.

11-January-1986

Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.

11-January-1990

R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).

11-January-1991

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995).

11-January-1991

Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM.

11-January-1991

Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa.

11-January-1993

Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.

11-January-1994

Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.

11-January-1994

Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.

11-January-1995

Kumari Anandan replaces Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy as TNCC (I) chief.

11-January-1996

Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.

11-January-1998

C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.

11-January-1999

Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.

11-January-2000

Mrs. Anju, wife of Shoaib Ilyasi of 'India's Most Wanted' famed serial, dies under mysterious circumstances.