DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2022. There are 354 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1861: Alabama became the fourth state to withdraw 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.
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.
1943: The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1963: The Beatles’ single “Please Please Me” (B side “Ask Me Why”) was released in Britain by Parlophone.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Actor Mitchell Ryan (“Dharma and Greg”) is 88. Director Joel Zwick (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) is 80. Country singer Naomi Judd is 76. Musician Robert Earl Keen is 66. Actor Phyllis Logan
(“Downton Abbey”) is 66. Guitarist Vicki Peterson
of The Bangles is 64. Actor Kim Coles (“Living Single”) is 60. Former child actor Dawn Lyn
(“My Three Sons”) is 59. Guitarist Tom Dumont
of No Doubt is 54. Singer Mary J. Blige is 51. Musician Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers is 51. Actor Amanda Peet is 50. Actor Rockmond Dunbar (“Heartland,” “Soul Food”) is 49. Actor Aja Naomi King
(“How To Get Away With Murder”) is 37. Reality star Jason Wahler (“Laguna Beach,” “The Hills”) is 35.