Friday, January 11, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – JANUARY 11


HISTORICAL EVENTS

1794
Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first Marshal to die while carrying out his duties.

1861 – Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede from the Union prior to the United Sates Civil War.



1922  Insulin is first used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada).


1940 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Army's first African-American general, his son would later become a general as well.


1980 Honda announces it will build the first Japanese-owned passenger-car assembly plant in the United States–in Ohio.




FAMOUS BIRTHS


347 –  Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome (d. 395).


1757  Alexander Hamilton, co-author of The Federalist Papers and first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.



1923 Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman, (d. 2012).



FAMOUS DEATHS

 

1843  Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," dies in Baltimore.


1928 Thomas Hardy, novelist (Far From the Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87.



2008 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer/1st to climb Mt Everest in 1953, dies from a heart attack at 88.


ALL PHOTOS FROM Google Images

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