On This Day:
Sunday January 11, 2015 This is the 11th day of the year, with 354 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: pearl necklaces Pearl Necklace Terminology: Choker: 14"-15" in length - should nestle around the base of the neck. Princess: 18" in length - should fall halfway between choker and matinee length. Matinee: 22"-23" in length - should fall to the top of the cleavage. Opera: 30"-36" in length - should fall to the breastbone. Sautoir or Rope: Any pearl necklace longer than opera length. Dog Collar: Multiple strands of pearls fitting closely around the neck. Bib: Multiple strands of pearls, each shorter than the one below, nested together in one necklace. Graduated: A necklace composed of pearls which taper downward in size from large pearls in the center. Uniform: A necklace which appears to be composed entirely of pearls of the same size.
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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