🗞️Today’s Headlines

Everything important that’s ever happened on January 11:

1964 ─ US Surgeon General Luther L. Terry announced that there was a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, as well as heart disease, and suggested cigarettes come with warning labels, which became mandatory the next year. 

1935 ─ Amelia Earhart became the first pilot to fly from Hawaii to California, which took 18 hours at an average speed of around 140–160 mph. 

1878 ─ For the first time, milk was delivered in glass bottles in New York City, a service that would last until the early 1960s. To mark this first delivery, January 11 is known as National Milk Day.

1861 ─ In a 61–39 vote, an Alabama delegation decided to become the fourth state to secede from the Union, four months before the beginning of the American Civil War.

🎂 Today’s Birthdays

On January 11, we’re singing to:

Theodosius I (347) ─ Roman emperor known as Theodosius the Great, who was the final emperor to rule a united Roman empire.

Alexander Hamilton (1755) ─ Founding father of the United States and the first US Secretary of the Treasury, who was famously shot and killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. 

Alice Paul (1885) ─ US suffragist who was instrumental in the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the guaranteed right to vote in 2020. 

 🪦Who Died Today?

On January 11, we’re saying goodbye to:

Thomas Hardy (1928) ─ British poet and writer who was highly critical of the customs of Victorian England and is most famous for his novels Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.

Edmund Hillary (2008) ─ Explorer and mountaineer from New Zealand who ventured to both the North and South Poles and, along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

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