At the moment is Sunday, Jan. 11, the eleventh day of 2026. There are 354 days left within the 12 months.
At the moment in historical past:
On Jan. 11, 2010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Related Press that he’d used steroids and human progress hormone when he broke baseball’s residence run document in 1998.
Additionally on this date:
In 1861, Alabama turned the fourth state to declare its secession from the Union.
In 1908, the Grand Canyon was established as a nationwide monument by President Theodore Roosevelt. The transfer protected it from mining and different actions till it turned a nationwide park in 1919.
In 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart started what can be the primary solo flight from Hawaii to California, finishing the two,400-mile flight throughout the Pacific to Oakland in slightly below 19 hours.
In 1964, U.S. Surgeon Common Luther Terry issued “Smoking and Well being,” a report that concluded that “cigarette smoking contributes considerably to mortality from sure particular illnesses and to the general demise charge.”
In 2002, the primary al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived on the U.S. navy’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
In 2021, Home Democrats launched an article of impeachment in opposition to President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of riot” after the assault on the U.S. Capitol constructing 5 days earlier.
In 2024, U.S. and British forces bombed greater than dozen websites utilized by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, in an enormous retaliatory strike for the militant group’s assaults on worldwide cargo ships and different targets within the Crimson Sea.
At the moment’s birthdays:
- Filmmaker Alfonso Arau is 94.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Ben Crenshaw is 74.
- Jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour is 74.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Tracy Caulkins is 63.
- Filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee is 56.
- Singer Mary J. Blige is 55.
- Actor Amanda Peet is 54.
- Actor Devin Ratray is 49.
- Actor Aja Naomi King is 41.
- Singer and former aggressive swimmer Cody Simpson is 29.
