Unix Timestamp: 1136937600
Wednesday, January 11. 2006, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Up to 50 people are killed following protests against rising unemployment in Tunisia. //www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1464492/Up-to-fifty-killed-in-Tunisia-unrest (AFP via SBS)

Thousands of airline flights are cancelled in the south, Great Lakes and northeast regions of the United States due to storms. //www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/11/2011321/canceled-flights-mount-as-us-storm.html (AP via "Miami Herald")

Fresh protests break out in Tunisia, in the capital Tunis. //www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12168175 (BBC) //english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/01/2011111214716877786.html (Al Jazeera)

Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903.

A U.S. court ordered the controversial organization Clonaid, which claims that it produced a human clone, to reveal the identity and whereabouts of the alleged cloned baby.

The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form "AOL Time Warner".

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.

The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.

Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.

Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan.

WWF Monday Night Raw premieres on the USA Network and continues to this day.

Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.

The government of Haiti declares a state of siege, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29.

Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad.

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.

Cold War: In Lithuania, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.

Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.

Prime Minister of PakistanBenazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office.

Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.//www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/pp021603.shtml EurasiaNet Human Rights – Notes from Baku: Black January

The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Clashes break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir.

Martin Luther King Day Crash - Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an ATT software bug.

The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on power.

President of the United StatesRonald Reagan delivers his farewell address to the nation.

January 17 ndash A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.

Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar Rally. He is rescued January 14.

Nigel Short, 14, becomes the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.

The 1976 Flyers-Red Army game results in a 4-1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union.

The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels a U.S. destroyer evacuates 61 U.S. citizens.

United States Surgeon GeneralLuther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).

Routine U.S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.

The African Convention is founded in Dakar.

Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivers his 'Perimeter Speech', outlining the boundary of U.S. security guarantees.

The British submarine "Truculent" collides with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary and sinks 64 die.

Hukguerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa, Bataan in the Philippines.

Kraków-Płaszów concentration c established.

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security in his State of the Union address

Battle of Malaya: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.

Dutch East Indies caign: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Dutch East Indies.

Sikorsky R-4 first flies, in the United States it will become the first mass-produced helicopter.

Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.

The light cruiser HMS Southton (83) is sunk off Malta.

The first issue of "Look" magazine goes on sale in the United States.

Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.

Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.

The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made.

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was recognised de facto by European powers in Versailles.//today.az/news/politics/53534.html Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official: result of overcoming obstacles by first Azerbaijani diplomats was international recognition in Versailles Today.az

Romania annexes Transylvania.

German saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ), one of the events leading to U.S. involvement in WWI.

1890 British Ultimatum: the United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its forces from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola (most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia)

Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Joseph Grancher.

The Anglo-Zulu War begins.

Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.

American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the Union.

Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.

LaGrange College (now the University of North Alabama) opens its doors, becoming the first publicly chartered college in Alabama.

Michigan Territory is created.

William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, 2 moons of Uranus.

Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.

Mount Etna erupts, causing a devastating earthquake that affects parts of Sicily and Malta.

January 22 O.S.) ndash Glorious Revolution in England: The Convention Parliament is convened to determine if King James II of England, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, vacated the throne when he fled to France at the end of 1688. The settlement of this is agreed on 8 February.ref name=Kenyon

The Cortes of Castile approves a new subsidy, the millones.

March ndash Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat to get through the impregnable defences.

The Austrian nobility are granted freedom of religion.

May 6 ndash The first recorded lottery in England is performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbours and for other public works.

May 6 ndash The first recorded lottery in England is performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbours and for other public works.

Ketumati, Burma is conquered by Bayinnaung.

Sweden's first Riksdag of the Estates is summoned under Engelbrekt.

The city of Požega is first mentioned in a charter of Andrew II of Hungary.

Vladislav II becomes king of Bohemia.

Theodora becomes reigning empress of the Byzantine Empire.

Pope Miltiades' reign ends.