Albuquerque Journal

TODAY IN HISTORY

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TODAY IS MONDAY, JAN. 11, the 11th day of 2021. There are 354 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 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. In 1815, Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to withdraw from the Union. In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919). In 1913, the first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York. In 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. In 1935, 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. In 1943, the United States and Britain signed treaties relinquish­ing extraterri­torial rights in China. In 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued “Smoking and Health,” a report that concluded that “cigarette smoking contribute­s substantia­lly to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate.”

In 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. In 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.” In 2001, the Army acknowledg­ed that U.S. soldiers killed an “unknown number” of South Korean refugees early in the Korean War at No Gun Ri, but said there was no evidence they were ordered to do so. In 2010, Miep Gies, the Dutch office secretary who defied Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager’s diary, died at age 100. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and actor Mitchell Ryan are 87. Actor Felix Silla is 84. Movie director Joel Zwick is 79. Country singer Naomi Judd is 75. World Golf Hall-of-Famer Ben Crenshaw is 69. Singer Robert Earl Keen and actor Phyllis Logan are 65. Musician Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) is 63. Actor Kim Coles is 59. Actor Jason Connery and former child actor Dawn Lyn (TV: “My Three Sons”) are 58. Rock musician Tom Dumont (No Doubt) is 53. Movie director Malcolm D. Lee is 51. Singer Mary J. Blige and musician Tom Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers) are 50. Actors Marc Blucas and Amanda Peet are 49. Actor Rockmond Dunbar is 48. Actors Aja Naomi King and Kristolyn Lloyd are 36. Reality TV star Jason Wahler is 34. Pop singer Cody Simpson is 24.

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