January 11

Events

• 1801: Ali Pasha orders the execution by drowning of Kyra-Frosini.
• 1930: Kostis Palamas becomes President of the Athens Academy.
• 1944: Allied airplanes bombard the harbour of Piraeus.
• 1979: Yiangos Pesmazoglou leaves the Centrist Democratic Union to form the Democratic Socialist Party (KODISO, Greek: ΚΟΔΗΣΟ)
• 1989: "Greece has transformed into an immense madhouse," states the President of the Hellenic Republic, Constantine Karamanlis, when talking about the political situation in Greece. (Η Ελλάδα μεταβλήθηκε σε ένα απέραντο φρενοκομείο)

Sports

• 1897: 28 athletic clubs are assembled in Panellinios. The next day the decision is made and SEAGS (later to become SEGAS) is founded

Births

• 347: Theodosius I, Byzantine emperor
• 1853: Georgios Iakovidis, painter
• 1910: Nikos Kavvadias, writer

Deaths

• 812: Byzantine Emperor Stauracius.
• 1923: King Constantine I exiled monarch of Greece.
• 1951: Grigorios Xenopoulos, writer.