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.

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