January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of the year (355 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL STEP IN A PUDDLE AND SPLASH YOUR FRIENDS DAY
1693 ― Volcanic Mount Etna erupts in Sicily. Since the year 1600, at least 60 flank eruptions and countless summit eruptions have occurred; nearly half of these have happened since the start of the 20th century.
NATIONAL STEP IN A PUDDLE AND SPLASH YOUR FRIENDS DAY
1693 ― Volcanic Mount Etna erupts in Sicily. Since the year 1600, at least 60 flank eruptions and countless summit eruptions have occurred; nearly half of these have happened since the start of the 20th century.
1774 ― Astronomer Charles Messier adds M51 (the Whirpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog of astronomical objects.
1775 ― Francis Salvador becomes the first Jew elected to office in America (SC).
1794 ― Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal, is killed in Augusta, GA when trying to serve court papers, is the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
1803 ― James Monroe joins the Minister to France, Robert Livingston, in Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans; instead they make the Louisiana Purchase.
1849 ― British-born Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to earn a medical degree in the in the United States.
1866 ― The steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220.
1897 ― Margaret Hughes Cannon, a physician, Utah women's rights advocate and suffragist, becomes the first woman state senator in the United States.
1908 ― President Theodore Roosevelt designates the Grand Canyon as a national monument.
1922 ― Insulin is first 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 deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia.
1937 ― Violence erupts at a General Motors plant strike.
1973 ― In baseball, the American League adopts the designated hitter rule. The first designated hitter to bat was Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankess. He walked facing Red Sox pitcher Louis Tiant.
1973 ― The trial of the Watergate "Seven" begins in Washington, D.C.
2007 ― Author J. K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the Bamoral Hotel, Edinburgh.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University (d. 1874)
1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (d. 1947)
1885 – Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist (d. 1977)
1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008)
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1775 ― Francis Salvador becomes the first Jew elected to office in America (SC).
1794 ― Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal, is killed in Augusta, GA when trying to serve court papers, is the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
1803 ― James Monroe joins the Minister to France, Robert Livingston, in Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans; instead they make the Louisiana Purchase.
1849 ― British-born Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to earn a medical degree in the in the United States.
1866 ― The steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220.
1897 ― Margaret Hughes Cannon, a physician, Utah women's rights advocate and suffragist, becomes the first woman state senator in the United States.
1908 ― President Theodore Roosevelt designates the Grand Canyon as a national monument.
1922 ― Insulin is first 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 deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia.
1937 ― Violence erupts at a General Motors plant strike.
1943 ― The Krakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp is established by the Nazis during WWII.
1963 ― The first discotheque opens, the Whiskey-a-go-go, in LA.
1963 ― The first discotheque opens, the Whiskey-a-go-go, in LA.
1973 ― In baseball, the American League adopts the designated hitter rule. The first designated hitter to bat was Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankess. He walked facing Red Sox pitcher Louis Tiant.
1973 ― The trial of the Watergate "Seven" begins in Washington, D.C.
1991 ― Congress empowers President George H.W. Bush to order the attack to drive the Iraqi invaders from Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm.
1996 ― Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space.
1996 ― Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space.
2007 ― Author J. K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the Bamoral Hotel, Edinburgh.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University (d. 1874)
1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (d. 1947)
1885 – Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist (d. 1977)
1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008)
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