Daily Calendar for Sunday, January 11, 2026

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Alexander Hamilton (statesman & founding father) – 1757
Sir John A. Macdonald (First Canadian prime minister; born in Glasgow, Scotland) – 1815
Alice Paul (American lawyer and suffragist, who was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment; was born in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey) – 1885
Alan Stewart Paton (author) – 1903
Manfred B. Lee (mystery writer) – 1905
Jean Chrétien (Canadian prime minister) – 1934
Clarence Clemons (musician) – 1942
Naomi Judd (country music singer) – 1946
Ben Crenshaw (golfer) – 1952
Darryl Dawkins (basketball player) – 1957
Mary J. Blige (singer) – 1971
Amanda Peet (actress) – 1972

Francis Scott Key (composer) – 1843
Gail Borden (Gail Borden Jr., an inventor who perfected a process for making and keeping sweetened condensed milk, died in Borden, Texas.) – 1874
Sir Edmund Hillary (one of the first to summit Mt. Everest) – 2008

Alabama seceded from the Union – 1861
Milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time, Brooklyn, NY – 1878
Hudson Motor Company unveiled the first sedan-type car – 1913
Pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart became the first person to pilot solo from Hawaii to Mainland USA. She took off from Honolulu, reaching Oakland, CA, in 18 1/4 hours – 1935
India and Pakistan annouced the designation of an exact border between the two countries to eliminate clashes – 1960
The forerunner of the discotheques, the Whiskey A-Go-Go, opened on Sunset strip in Los Angeles, California and became the launching pad for many unkown stars like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and Otis Redding – 1963
Dr. Luther Terry, the U.S. Surgeon General, issued the first government report saying that smoking was hazardous to one’s health – 1964
Baseball’s American League adopted the “designated hitter” rule which allows another player to bat for the pitcher – 1973
National Ballet of Canada founder, Celia Franca, retired. – 1974
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control published evidence that AIDS can be transmitted through blood tranfusions – 1984
President Reagan bade the nation farewell in a nationally broadcast address from the Oval Office – 1989
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California – 2010
A 17-pound 1-ounce ocean whitefish was caught at Hurricane Bank, off California and Mexico – 2011

Charleston, South Carolina, experienced a sudden change in temperature on January 10. The mercury dropped from 70F to 26F and sank to 15F by the morning of January 11. – 1745
Two-day blizzard began in Midwest, 1918 – 1918
Chinook winds warmed an Arctic air mass over Great Falls, Montana, raising temperatures from -32°F to 15°F in 7 minutes. – 1980
A chilly 32 degrees F, Orlando, Florida – 1982
25.3 inches of snow fell in 24 hours in Buffalo, NY – 1982
Five degrees below zero F in Atlanta, Georgia – 1982
75 mph wind gusts at Yankton, South Dakota – 1990