As you tirelessly work on your action plans for the new year, get yourself informed on the significant events that happened on January 11 in history.
Here is a list you should read through:
- 1805 – The territory of Michigan was created.
- 1861 – Alabama seceded from the United States.
- 1902 – The first”Popular Mechanics” magazine was published.
- 1922 – Insulin is used for the first time to treat diabetes as a fourteen-year-old receives it to treat type 1 diabetes.
- 1935 – Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly non-stop from Honolulu to Oakland, California.
- 1938 – In Limerick, ME, Frances Moulton assumed her duties as the first woman bank president.
- 1942 – Japan declared war against the Netherlands.
- 1943 – The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
- 1946 – Bert Bell became the second NFL commissioner and moved Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia.
- 1964 – Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that identified smoking cigarettes as a definite health hazard.
- 1973 – The Open University awarded its first degrees.
- 1973 – American Baseball League adopted the designated hitter rule.
- 1973 – Dorothy Hamill won her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship.
- 1980 – Nigel Short, age 14, from Britain, became the youngest International Master in the history of chess.
- 1982 – Atlanta, Georgia’s temperature goes below zero F.
- 1985 – The first Rock in Rio music festival was held with 1.5 million people in attendance.
- 1986 – 1st African American Lieutenant Governor, Douglas Wilder of Virginia was sworn in.
- 1991 – Ric Flair won the WCW wrestling title.
- 2000 -The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the second Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial commemorative stamp.
- 2002 -The first prisoners arrive in Guantanamo Bay as reports from Amnesty International identified the situation at the US detention camp as a “human rights scandal”.