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Today in History ~ January 11
Events
1569 - 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
1642 - Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1693 - Mt Etna erupts, Sicily
1775 - Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America, takes his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress. On August 1, 1776 he became the first Jewish soldier killed in the American War for Independence.
1785 - Continental Congress convenes in NYC
1787 - Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1803 - Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana
1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
1863 - Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
1863 - Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft Hindman, Arkansas
1864 - Charing Cross Station opens in London
1865 - Battle of Beverly, WV
1866 - Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
1879 - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created [H]
1913 - The first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in New York.
1922 - Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1928 - Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik revolution and early architect of the Soviet state, is shipped out by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. Later he is banished from the USSR. [H]
1935 - Aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. [H]
1940 - Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
1942 - Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same day that Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.
1943 - The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1944 - Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
1961 - Racial riot at University of Georgia
1963 - 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1964 - U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health.
1966 - 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
1972 - East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
1973 - Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC
1973 - Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis.
1977 - France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a $10 million award to the family of Oklahoma nuclear worker Karen
Silkwood, who died in 1974.
1989 - Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
1990 - Martial law, imposed during the June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, was lifted in Beijing.
1990 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Lithuania in effort to cool secessionist fervor.
1991 - Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
1992 - The president of Algeria (Chadli Bendjedid) resigned, two weeks after Muslim fundamentalists had defeated his ruling party in legislative elections.
1993 - Doctors in Pittsburgh performed the second ever baboon-to-human liver transplant; the 62-year-old recipient did not survive long.
1994 - President Clinton kicked off a visit to Eastern Europe with a stop in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
1995 - The U.S. State Department accused Russia of breaking an international agreement by making major troop movements into the rebel republic of Chechnya without providing notification.
1995 - Hockey team owners and players reached an agreement, salvaging the 1994-95 NHL season.
1996 - The Japanese Diet elected Ryutaro Hashimoto, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the new premier.
1997 - President Clinton summoned top administration officials to a daylong planning session for his second term. 1997 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook Mexico City and the southern part of Mexico, but no deaths were reported.
2000 - The British government declared Chile’s Gen. Augusto Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain. The ruling cleared the way for the former dictator to avoid charges of crimes against humanity.
2001 - The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of American Online and Time Warner Inc., creating the world’s largest media conglomerate.
2001 - A yearlong investigation by the U.S. Army concluded that American soldiers shot and killed unarmed South
Korean civilians at No Gun Ri in July 1950 during the Korean War.
2001 - President-elect Bush chose Elaine Chao to be secretary of labor after Linda Chavez withdrew.
Birthdays Today
1757 - Alexander Hamilton (statesman) (First U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) was born in the West Indies.
1807 - Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
1815 - Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
1890 - Monte Blue (actor)
1902 - Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer
1903 - Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD)
1910 - Schoolboy (Lynwood) Rowe (baseball)
1923 - Carroll Shelby (auto racer: remember the Shelby 350 coupe?)
1924 - Don Cherry (singer: Band of Gold; golfer)
1930 - Jack Nimitz (jazz 'reed' musician: toured with Supersax)
1930 - Rod Taylor (actor: The Birds, Masquerade, The Time Machine)
1933 - Goldie Hill (country entertainer: I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes; married to country singer, Carl Smith)
1942 - George Mira (football: Miami Dolphins QB,Super Bowl VI)
1943 - Jim Hightower (radio host, author: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, Eat Your Heart Out)
1945 - Christine Kaufmann (actress)
1946 - Naomi (Diane) Judd (Grammy Award-winning singer: duo: The Judds: Why Not Me, Have Mercy, LP: Heartland; mother of Wynonna (singer), and Ashley (actress))
1947 - Anna Calder-Marshall (actress)
1948 - Chris Ford (basketball)
1949 - Dave Burrows (hockey)
1949 - Dennis (Frederick) Greene (singer: group: Sha-Na-Na)
1949 - John Watson (football)
1952 - Ben 'Gentle Ben' Crenshaw (golfer: most individual amateur golf titles [3] from 1971 to 1973; Masters Champion [1984])
1953 - Freddie Solomon (football: San Francisco '49ers WR, Super Bowl XVI, XIX)
1954 - Gary Brokaw (basketball)
1988 - Alexandria, Danielle, Erica, Raymond, and Veronica L'Esperance, quintuplets
Famous deaths
1797 - Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (signer Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51
1837 - Francois Gerard, French baron/painter, dies at 66
1837 - John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
1843 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
1914 - Ambrose Bierce, writer (The Devil's Dictionary, Owl Creek Bridge), dies at 71
1928 - Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (The Chocolate Soldier), dies at 83
1959 - Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies
1966 - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64
1988 - Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer
1994 - John Bradley, raised US flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, producer/director (Dick Van Dyke), dies at 89
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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