January 11
1757 - American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.
1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
1861 - Alabama became the fourth state to secede from the Union.
1908 - President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument. (It became a national park in 1919.)
1913 - The first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.
1927 - The creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was proposed during a dinner of Hollywood luminaries at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
1934 - Aviator Amelia Earhart began an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, California, that made her the first person to fly solo across any part of the Pacific Ocean.
1943 - The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1964 - The first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry.
1977 - France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1978 - Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station, where the Soyuz 26 capsule was already docked.
1989 - Nine days before leaving the White House, President Ronald Reagan bade the nation farewell in a prime-time address, saying of his eight years in office: "We meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world."
2002 - The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrived at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
2003 - Calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office.
2011 - The Arab Spring movement began in Tunisia when demonstrators took to the streets to protest chronic unemployment and police brutality.
2012 - Jordan van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the still unsolved disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba, pleaded guilty in Lima to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman, Stephany Flores; he was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
2017 - In a combative and freewheeling news conference at Trump Tower in New York, President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time that he accepted that Russia was behind the election year hacking of Democrats that roiled the White House race; looking ahead, he urged Congress to move quickly to replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law and insisted anew that Mexico would pay the cost of a border wall.
2017 - Six high-level Volkswagen employees from Germany were indicted in the U.S. in the VW emissions-cheating scandal, while the company agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $4.3 billion — by far the biggest fine ever levied by the government against an automaker.
2020 - Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan reported the first death from what had been identified as a new type of coronavirus; the patient was a 61-year-old man who’d been a frequent customer at a food market linked to the majority of cases there.
2021 - The conservative-friendly social network Parler was booted off the internet over ties to the siege on the U.S. Capitol, but not before digital activists made off with an archive of its posts, including any that might have helped organize or document the riot.
2021 - Pope Francis changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, while reaffirming they cannot be priests.
Birthdays
24 - Louisa Johnson (singer)
24 - Emaza Dilan (singer)
25 - Cody Simpson (singer)
35 - Jason Wahler (reality star)
36 - Rachel Riley (TV host)
37 - Kristolyn Lloyd (actress)
37 - Aja Naomi King (actress)
51 - Mary J. Blige (singer)
53 - Kyle Richards (reality star)
58 - Yolanda Hadid (reality star)
59 - Dawn Lyn (actress)
59 - Jason Connery (actor)
60 - Kim Coles (actress)
64 - Vicki Peterson (singer)
66 - Phyllis Logan (actress)
66 - Robert Earl Keen (singer)
70 - Ben Crenshaw (golfer)
76 - Naomi Judd (singer)
88 - Mitchell Ryan (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 11
1953 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declined a six-figure offer to be the president of the International Boxing Club.
1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 63 points in a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
1967 - San Diego is granted an NBA franchise to be called the Rockets. (The team would relocate to Houston for the 1971-72 season.)
1970 - The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl IV. (The game was technically called the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game", the last to be referred as such and was retroactively labeled as Super Bowl IV.)
1973 - The American League adopted the "Designated Hitter" rule, which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.
1976 - Dorothy Hamill won her third consecutive national figure skating championship.
1976 - The Soviet Olympic team walked off the ice in protest to the rough tactics of the Philadelphia Flyers during an exhibition game.
1995 - NHL owners and Players ended a 103 day lockout. It was announced that the regular season would be reduced to 48 games and would start January 20.
2001 - The New York Knicks hold an opponent under 100 points for NBA-record 29th straight game in a 76-75 loss to the Houston Rockets; streak snaps 46-year-old NBA record of 28 straight set by the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1954-55.
2007 - English soccer player David Beckham announced a five-year, $250 million deal to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
2010 - Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he'd used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998.
2014 - Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz reduced Alex Rodriguez's (New York Yankees) drug suspension from 211 to 162 games.
2016 - #2 Alabama defeats #1 Clemson 45-40 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2021 - #1 Alabama defeated #3 Ohio State 52-24 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
1757 - American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.
1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
1861 - Alabama became the fourth state to secede from the Union.
1908 - President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument. (It became a national park in 1919.)
1913 - The first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.
1927 - The creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was proposed during a dinner of Hollywood luminaries at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
1934 - Aviator Amelia Earhart began an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, California, that made her the first person to fly solo across any part of the Pacific Ocean.
1943 - The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1964 - The first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry.
1977 - France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1978 - Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station, where the Soyuz 26 capsule was already docked.
1989 - Nine days before leaving the White House, President Ronald Reagan bade the nation farewell in a prime-time address, saying of his eight years in office: "We meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world."
2002 - The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrived at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
2003 - Calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office.
2011 - The Arab Spring movement began in Tunisia when demonstrators took to the streets to protest chronic unemployment and police brutality.
2012 - Jordan van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the still unsolved disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba, pleaded guilty in Lima to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman, Stephany Flores; he was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
2017 - In a combative and freewheeling news conference at Trump Tower in New York, President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time that he accepted that Russia was behind the election year hacking of Democrats that roiled the White House race; looking ahead, he urged Congress to move quickly to replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law and insisted anew that Mexico would pay the cost of a border wall.
2017 - Six high-level Volkswagen employees from Germany were indicted in the U.S. in the VW emissions-cheating scandal, while the company agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $4.3 billion — by far the biggest fine ever levied by the government against an automaker.
2020 - Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan reported the first death from what had been identified as a new type of coronavirus; the patient was a 61-year-old man who’d been a frequent customer at a food market linked to the majority of cases there.
2021 - The conservative-friendly social network Parler was booted off the internet over ties to the siege on the U.S. Capitol, but not before digital activists made off with an archive of its posts, including any that might have helped organize or document the riot.
2021 - Pope Francis changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, while reaffirming they cannot be priests.
Birthdays
24 - Louisa Johnson (singer)
24 - Emaza Dilan (singer)
25 - Cody Simpson (singer)
35 - Jason Wahler (reality star)
36 - Rachel Riley (TV host)
37 - Kristolyn Lloyd (actress)
37 - Aja Naomi King (actress)
51 - Mary J. Blige (singer)
53 - Kyle Richards (reality star)
58 - Yolanda Hadid (reality star)
59 - Dawn Lyn (actress)
59 - Jason Connery (actor)
60 - Kim Coles (actress)
64 - Vicki Peterson (singer)
66 - Phyllis Logan (actress)
66 - Robert Earl Keen (singer)
70 - Ben Crenshaw (golfer)
76 - Naomi Judd (singer)
88 - Mitchell Ryan (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 11
1953 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declined a six-figure offer to be the president of the International Boxing Club.
1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 63 points in a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
1967 - San Diego is granted an NBA franchise to be called the Rockets. (The team would relocate to Houston for the 1971-72 season.)
1970 - The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl IV. (The game was technically called the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game", the last to be referred as such and was retroactively labeled as Super Bowl IV.)
1973 - The American League adopted the "Designated Hitter" rule, which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.
1976 - Dorothy Hamill won her third consecutive national figure skating championship.
1976 - The Soviet Olympic team walked off the ice in protest to the rough tactics of the Philadelphia Flyers during an exhibition game.
1995 - NHL owners and Players ended a 103 day lockout. It was announced that the regular season would be reduced to 48 games and would start January 20.
2001 - The New York Knicks hold an opponent under 100 points for NBA-record 29th straight game in a 76-75 loss to the Houston Rockets; streak snaps 46-year-old NBA record of 28 straight set by the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1954-55.
2007 - English soccer player David Beckham announced a five-year, $250 million deal to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
2010 - Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he'd used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998.
2014 - Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz reduced Alex Rodriguez's (New York Yankees) drug suspension from 211 to 162 games.
2016 - #2 Alabama defeats #1 Clemson 45-40 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2021 - #1 Alabama defeated #3 Ohio State 52-24 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
