January 11th Holidays

Look through the holiday list below for January 11th and see if there is anything you’d like to celebrate today.

• Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day
• Hot Toddy Day
• International Thank-You Day
• Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
• Milk Day
• National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
• National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day
• Secret Pal Day

January 9th Horoscope Sign is Capricorn

Time period: December 21 – January 20
Element: Earth
Quality: Cardinal
Ruling planet: Saturn
Symbol: Sea-Goat
Sign ruler: Saturn, Uranus
Birthstone: Garnet
Lucky Numbers: 4, 8, 13, 22
Personality Traits: Responsible, leaders, disciplined, independent,  loyal, stubborn, bossy, condescending.
Famous Capricorns: Tiger Woods, Stephen Hawking, Bradley Cooper, Jim Carrey, Elvis Presley, Isaac Newton, Muhammed Ali, Mel Gibson, Katie Couric, Rand Paul, Nicholas Cage.

January 11th Trivia

• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1941 – Comedian Stan Laurel and actress Virginia Ruth Rogers remarry for the 2nd time.
• 1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
• 1964 – Yolanda Hadid, American-Dutch television personality and Lyme disease activist was born in Papendrecht, Netherlands.
• 1969 – The #1 movie was, “Oliver.”
• 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter was born in The Bronx, NYC, NY.
• 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 1978 – The #1 movie was, “Saturday Night Fever,” starring John Travolta.
• 1980 – The song, Please Don’t Go by KC And The Sunshine Band was #1.
• 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
• 1988 –  The song,  So Emotional by Whitney Houston was the #1 song.
• 1990 – The song, Another Day In Paradise by Phil Collins was the #1 song.
• 1992 – The #1 movie was, “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.”
• 2015 – Hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders gathered in Paris Sunday for a unity march in response to a series of recent terror attacks.
• 2015 – Anita Ekberg,  Swedish actress,  known for her role in  La Dolce Vita, died due to complications from a lingering illness.
• 2017 – U.S. intelligence chiefs present President-elect Donald Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had compromising information about him.
• 2017 – The New York Times reported that 21st Century Fox,  paid  Juliet Huddy a big payout in exchange for an agreement not to sue over her allegation that Bill O’Reilly, made unwanted sexual advances in 2011 and derailed her career when she rebuffed them,

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