TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Thursday, January 11, the 11th day of 2018. There are 354 days left in the year.

1569 First recorded lottery in England.

1571 Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.

1759 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.

1779 Ching- Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.

1787 William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

1912 Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.

1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.

1927 Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer ( MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

1935 Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

1943 The Republic of China agrees to the Sino- British New Equal Treaty and the Sino- American New Equal Treaty.

1946 Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.

1949 The first ‘ networked’ television broadcasts took place as KDKA- TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and midwest programming.

1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.

1961 Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City’s boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.

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.

1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.

1994 The Irish Government announces the end of a 15- year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein.

1996 Space Shuttle programme: STS- 72 launches from the Kennedy Space Centre marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.

1998 Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi- Hamed massacre in Algeria.