January 11

*[[1912]] &ndash; Immigrant textile workers in [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]], [[1912 Lawrence Textile Strike|go on strike]] when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poirier|first=Clarisse A.|chapter=The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence's Mill Men and Won in 1912|title=The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912|editor1-last=Forrant|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Siegenthaler|editor2-first=Jurg K.|location=Amityville, N.Y.|publisher=Baywood Publishing Co.|date=2014|isbn=9780895038616|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_-nDQAAQBAJ|page=48}}</ref>

*[[1912]] &ndash; Immigrant textile workers in [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]], [[1912 Lawrence Textile Strike|go on strike]] when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poirier|first=Clarisse A.|chapter=The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence's Mill Men and Won in 1912|title=The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912|editor1-last=Forrant|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Siegenthaler|editor2-first=Jurg K.|location=Amityville, N.Y.|publisher=Baywood Publishing Co.|date=2014|isbn=9780895038616|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_-nDQAAQBAJ|page=48}}</ref>

*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[HMCS Karluk|''Karluk'']], flagship of the [[Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916|Canadian Arctic Expedition]], [[Last voyage of the Karluk|sinks after being crushed by ice]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link= Robert Bartlett (explorer)|last= Bartlett|first= Robert|author2=Ralph Hale |url= https://archive.org/details/lastvoyageofkarl00bartuoft|title= The Last Voyage of the ''Karluk''|publisher= McLelland, Goodchild and Stewart|location= Toronto|year= 1916 |pages=90&ndash;91}}</ref>

*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[HMCS Karluk|''Karluk'']], flagship of the [[Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916|Canadian Arctic Expedition]], [[Last voyage of the Karluk|sinks after being crushed by ice]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link= Robert Bartlett (explorer)|last= Bartlett|first= Robert|author2=Ralph Hale |url= https://archive.org/details/lastvoyageofkarl00bartuoft|title= The Last Voyage of the ''Karluk''|publisher= McLelland, Goodchild and Stewart|location= Toronto|year= 1916 |pages=90&ndash;91}}</ref>

*[[1917]] &ndash; The [[Kingsland Explosion|Kingsland munitions factory explosion]] occurs as a result of [[sabotage]].

*[[1917]] &ndash; The [[Kingsland explosion|Kingsland munitions factory explosion]] occurs as a result of [[sabotage]].

*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Leonard Thompson (diabetic)|Leonard Thompson]] becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.

*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Leonard Thompson (diabetic)|Leonard Thompson]] becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.

*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Occupation of the Ruhr]]: Troops from [[France]] and [[Belgium]] occupy the [[Ruhr]] area to force [[Germany]] to make its [[World War I]] reparation payments.

*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Occupation of the Ruhr]]: Troops from [[France]] and [[Belgium]] occupy the [[Ruhr]] area to force [[Germany]] to make its [[World War I]] reparation payments.