On This Day:
Saturday January 11, 2014 This is the 11th day of the year, with 354 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Frankenstein In Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus," (1818) the story centers on scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a monster and breathes life into it. It asked an important scientific question of the day: could the dead be brought back to life? The monster is often erroneously called Frankenstein, but in fact had no name and was referred to as "Monster." The first cinematic version of "Frankenstein" was a sixteen-minute silent film produced by Thomas Edison; the most famous was by Boris Karloff in 1931. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was married to the famous English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and was the daughter of famous English novelists William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Holidays Feast day of St. Salvius or Sauve of Amiens, and St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch.
Albania: Proclamation of the Republic Day (1946).
Nepal: National Unity Day.
Puerto Rico: De Hostos' Birthday (patriot).
Morocco: Independence Day.
Events 49 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River, plunging Rome into civil war.
1775 - Francis Salvador, the first Jew to be elected in the Americas, took his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress.
1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
1861 - Alabama seceded from the Union.
1922 - Leonard Thompson was the first person to be successfully treated with insulin, at Toronto General Hospital.
1935 - Aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California, that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
1940 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., became the United States Army's first black general.
1964 - US Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health.
1973 - The American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule in baseball.
2003 - Declaring the death penalty "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, emptying his state's death row two days before leaving office.
Births 1757 - Alexander Hamilton, U.S. statesman, first Secretary of the Treasury.
1885 - Alice Paul, American, chief strategist for the suffrage movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Deaths 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist.
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, who, on May 29, 1953, became the first climber known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
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