On January 11
On January 11, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Guantánamo Bay detention camp opens (2002).
On this day
On 11 January 2002 the first twenty detainees in the US 'War on Terror' arrived at Camp X-Ray, a hastily built facility at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Also this week in history (Jan 8 – Jan 14)
On 14 January 1761 the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani, allied with the Rohillas and the Nawab of Awadh, crushed the Maratha army under Sadashivrao Bhau at Panipat north of Delhi.
On 10 January 1776 the English-born radical Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a roughly fifty-page pamphlet that made a plain-language argument for American independence and against hereditary monarchy.
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