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Events on January 11

• 1827 The city of Bremen purchases land from the Kingdom of Hanover north of the Geest estuary and establishes a seaport and the city of Bremerhaven there in the following years.
• 1911 At the suggestion of the theologian Adolf von Harnack, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the predecessor of the Max Planck Society, is founded in Berlin as the body responsible for numerous research institutes.
• 1923 Starting with the Düsseldorf and Duisburg areas, which had already been occupied in 1921, French and Belgian troops begin the occupation of the Ruhr area to secure the reparations payments stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1935 Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to make a solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California.
• 1949 The Berliner Ensemble presents itself to the public for the first time with a performance of Mother Courage and Her Children under the direction of Bertolt Brecht at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
• 1952 The German Bundestag ratifies, against the votes of the SPD and KPD, the treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
• 1953 The Austrian ski jumper Josef Bradl wins the first edition of the Four Hills Tournament, ahead of the Norwegians Halvor Næs and Asgeir Dølplads; Toni Brutscher, the best German, finished in fourth place.
• 1985 The first stage of a Pershing II rocket explodes at the Heilbronn Waldheide.
• 2000 The European Court of Justice rules in the Kreil case. The Federal Republic of Germany must allow women to enter active military service, which involves weapons training.
• 2002 At the Wolfratshausen breakfast in the Bavarian town of Wolfratshausen, Angela Merkel forgoes the Union's candidacy for chancellor in the 2002 Bundestag election in favor of Edmund Stoiber after a lengthy competitive struggle.
• 2015 The final victory in Brisbane against Milos Raonic is Roger Federer's 1000th victory on the ATP World Tour. Only Ivan Lendl (1071) and Jimmy Connors (1253) had achieved this before him.
• 2017 The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is opened.

Born on January 11

• 1852 Constantin Fehrenbach, German politician
• 1902 Maurice Duruflé, French composer
• 1930 Rod Taylor, Australian actor
• 1952 Diana Gabaldon, American author
• 1960 Petra Nadolny, German actress
• 1970 Mustafa Sandal, Turkish musician
• 1971 Mary J. Blige, American soul and R&B singer
• 1980 Christian Wetklo, German football goalkeeper
• 1981 Benjamin Auer, German football player
• 2000 Jamie Bick, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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