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January 11 - Today in History

  1. 2007 Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization
  2. 2006 Alaska's Augustine volcano erupts
  3. 1998 "Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances
  4. 1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
  5. 1998 AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pittsburgh Steelers 24-21
  6. 1998 NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49'ers 23-10
  7. 1998 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
  8. 1997 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
  9. 1997 Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis International
  10. 1997 Telstar 401 Satellite FailsNumbered List
  11. 1996 Space Shuttle STS-72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
  12. 1995 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in New York City)
  13. 1995 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
  14. 1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
  15. 1995 NHLPA and owners agree to end NHL strike
  16. 1994 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
  17. 1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
  18. 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo New York (WKBW)
  19. 1993 Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
  20. 1992 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation
  21. 1992 Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
  22. 1992 U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.
  23. 1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
  24. 1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
  25. 1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
  26. 1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
  27. 1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
  28. 1990 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
  29. 1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
  30. 1990 Pat Lafontaine sets New York Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
  31. 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
  32. 1989 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
  33. 1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
  34. 1988 Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI vs. India, Madras
  35. 1988 U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
  36. 1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)
  37. 1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
  38. 1984 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
  39. 1984 STS-41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
  40. 1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
  41. 1983 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time
  42. 1982 Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F
  43. 1982 Honduras adopts constitution
  44. 1981 "Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 93 performances
  45. 1981 Palau adopts constitution
  46. 1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
  47. 1980 Debut of Pretenders
  48. 1979 "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 61 performances
  49. 1978 Governor Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
  50. 1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
  51. 1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
  52. 1977 Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
  53. 1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
  54. 1976 "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 193 performances
  55. 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions
  56. 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves
  57. 1976 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in New York City
  58. 1976 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
  59. 1976 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
  60. 1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
  61. 1974 ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
  62. 1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule
  63. 1973 Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
  64. 1973 Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C.
  65. 1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
  66. 1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier
  67. 1971 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK
  68. 1971 Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
  69. 1970 Superbowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB
  70. 1969 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
  71. 1969 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
  72. 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
  73. 1967 Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
  74. 1966 "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
  75. 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
  76. 1964 "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 302 performances
  77. 1964 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health
  78. 1964 Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in U.S. (Cashbox)
  79. 1964 Panama ends diplomatic relations with U.S.
  80. 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
  81. 1963 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
  82. 1963 Beatles release "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why"
  83. 1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
  84. 1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
  85. 1960 Chad declares independence from France
  86. 1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
  87. 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
  88. 1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record
  89. 1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
  90. 1959 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
  91. 1954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)
  92. 1953 J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club
  93. 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
  94. 1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
  95. 1946 Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia
  96. 1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
  97. 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
  98. 1943 U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
  99. 1942 -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
  100. 1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
  101. 1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
  102. 1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet premieres in Leningrad
  103. 1938 Bradman scores a second innings 113 vs. Qld after a ton in the 1st
  104. 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank
  105. 1936 Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
  106. 1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland California (non-stop, of course)
  107. 1927 Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th New York City
  108. 1925 Franc B. Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as U.S. Secretary of State
  109. 1923 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters)
  110. 1923 French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
  111. 1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
  112. 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
  113. 1919 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed
  114. 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
  115. 1917 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in New York City
  116. 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
  117. 1915 Col Jacob Ruppert and Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000
  118. 1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City)
  119. 1913 Bread and Roses Strike begins
  120. 1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
  121. 1897 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah)
  122. 1893 Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35)
  123. 1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
  124. 1892 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
  125. 1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia
  126. 1885 Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo
  127. 1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
  128. 1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
  129. 1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
  130. 1865 Battle of Beverly, WV
  131. 1864 Charing Cross Station opens in London
  132. 1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras
  133. 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas
  134. 1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
  135. 1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
  136. 1839 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die
  137. 1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
  138. 1805 Michigan Territory organizes
  139. 1803 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
  140. 1790 Statisten and Vonckisten unite as Belgium
  141. 1787 Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
  142. 1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City
  143. 1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
  144. 1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
  145. 1765 Frisia bans Voltaires "Traite sur la tolerance"
  146. 1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
  147. 1753 Ferdinand VI of Spain and Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
  148. 1709 Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London
  149. 1693 Mount Etna erupts, Sicily
  150. 1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
  151. 1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove and muskaat
  152. 1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
  153. 1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St. Paul's Cathedral
  154. 1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
  155. 1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
  156. 532 Nika-revolt against Justianus and Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
  157. 314 St. Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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