TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Jan. 11, 1908

President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919).

ON THIS DATE 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.

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.”

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.