Today in History for 11th January 2022:
Historical Events
1775 – Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1865 – Battle of Beverly, West Virginia, Confederate forces attack Union post
1962 – Landslide at dormant volcano Huascaran in Peru kills an estimated 4,000
1978 – Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
1981 – NFC Championship, Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Eagles beat Dallas Cowboys, 20-7
Famous Birthdays
1630 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)
1901 – Andries D Copier, Dutch glass manufacturer (Gildeglass)
1920 – John Powell, campaigner
1965 – Roland Scholten, Dutch darts player (UK Open 2004), born in The Hague, Netherlands
1968 – Benjamin List, German chemist (2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for asymmetric organocatalysis), born in Frankfurt, Germany
1993 – Flora Cross, French-American actress, born in Paris, France
Famous Deaths
1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, French author, dies at 66
1847 – Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1870 – Adolf Ganz, German composer and violinist, dies at 73
1931 – James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor, dies at 66
1994 – John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima), dies of a stroke at 70