January 11: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1693 - Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
2. 1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
3. 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
4. 1805 - The Michigan Territory is created.
5. 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
6. 1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
7. 1935 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
8. 1949 - The first "networked" television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
9. 1964 - Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
10. 1996 - Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
11. Famous Birthdays: Parmigianino (Italian painter), Ezra Cornell (American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University), Edward B. Titchener (English psychologist), Calvin Bridges (American geneticist), Roger Guillemin (French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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