January 11 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 11
In the headlines today:

2001	Actor Anthony Hopkins has his hand- and footprints placed in wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1998	Actor Woody Harrelson (Cheers) marries Laura Louie.
1995	52 people die when a Colombian airliner crashes near the Caribbean resort town of Cartagena.
1978	Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule link up with the Salyut Six orbiting space station, joining their Soyuz 26 comrades who were already docked.
1973	The designated hitter rule is added to major league baseball teams in the American League.
1970	The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7, in Superbowl IV.
1968	The GEOS-B satellite is launched into earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
1964	US Surgeon General Luther Terry releases a report that states that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
1958	Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges as crusty frogman and good guy Mike Nelson, debuts on CBS-TV.
1942	Japan declares war on Holland during WWII.
1935	Amelia Earhart Putnam becomes the first person to make a solo airplane flight from Hawaii to California.
1902	Popular Mechanics magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
1861	Alabama secedes from the Union, during the US Civil War.
1805	Michigan becomes a US territory.