On This Day = January 11
Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances
BIRTHDAYS
1503 = Parmigianino = Italian artist
1755 or 1757 = Alexander Hamilton = Nevisian-American general, economist, politician, and 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury 🌈
1825 = Bayard Taylor = American poet, critic, and translator 🌈
1853 = Georgios Jakobides = Greek painter and sculptor
1870 = Alexander Stirling Calder = American sculptor and educator
1885 = Alice Paul = American activist and suffragist
1886 = George Zucco = British actor
1899 = Eva Le Gallienne = English actor = producer and director 🌈
1912 = Don "Red" Barry = American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1923 = Carroll Shelby = American race car driver and designer
1924 = Slim Harpo = American blues singer-songwriter and musician
1925 = Grant Tinker = American producer and MTM Enterprises co-founder
1928 = David L. Wolper = American director and producer
1930 = Rod Taylor = Australian-American actor and screenwriter
1932 = Alfonso Arau = Mexican actor and director
1933 = Goldie Hill = American country singer-songwriter
1934 = Mitchell Ryan = American actor
1936 = Eva Hesse = German-American sculptor and educator
1937 = Felix Silla = Italian actor, circus performer, voice artist, and stuntman
1942 = Clarence Clemons = American saxophonist and actor
1946 = Naomi Judd = American singer-songwriter and actress
1946 = Tony Kaye = English keyboard player and songwriter
1951 = Philip Tartaglia = Scottish archbishop
1956 = Big Bank Hank = American rapper
1956 = Phyllis Logan = Scottish actress
1958 = Vicki Peterson = American singer-songwriter
1962 = Kim Coles = American actress and comedian
1970 = Malcolm D. Lee = American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
1971 = Mary J. Blige = American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1972 = Christian Jacobs = American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1972 = Amanda Peet = American actress and playwright
1979 = Darren Lynn Bousman = American director and screenwriter
1984 = Matt Mullenweg = American web developer and WordPress co-creator
1997 = Cody Simpson = Australian singer-songwriter and actor
EVENTS
1759 = The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1838 = First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail.
1908 = Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1922 = Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.
1927 = Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1935 = Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1949 = The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1964 = Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1973 = An American Family, a documentary series focusing on the Loud family of Santa Barbara, CA, premieres on PBS. During its 12-episode run, son Lance Loud comes out publicly on the show, characterizing himself as “Homo of the Year.”
1982 = Paul Lynde dies of a heart attack in Beverly Hills at age 55.
1984 = The Wall Street Journal allows staff writers to now use the word “gay,” as a synonym for “homosexual” in article and headlines.
2007 = The Mexican northern state of Coahuila passes a bill legalizing same-sex civil unions under the name Pacto Civil de Solidaridad (Civil Union Pact).
2013 = Marco McMillian is the first openly gay candidate for political office in Mississippi when he announces his candidacy for mayor of Clarksdale, MS. He is slain a month later.