On this day: January 11

January 11: Proclamation of Independence in Morocco (1944); Eugenio María de Hostos Day in Puerto Rico (1839)

Byzantine coin showing Empress Theodora

• 1055 – Theodora (pictured on coin) became sole ruler of the Byzantine empire after the death of her brother-in-law Constantine IX Monomachos.
• 1693 – An intensity XI earthquake, the most powerful in Italian history, struck the island of Sicily.
• 1912 – Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S., went on strike in response to a pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the workweek.
• 1923 – Troops from France and Belgium invaded the Ruhr to force the German Weimar Republic to pay its reparations in the aftermath of World War I.
• 2013 – French special forces failed in an attempted rescue of a DGSE agent who had been taken hostage in July 2009 by Al-Shabaab in Bulo Marer, Somalia.

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