Sunday, January 11, 2026

History for January 11

History for January 11 - On-This-Day.com 
Carroll Shelby 1923
  • 1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
  • 1922 - At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.
  • 1958 - "Seahunt" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was aired on the network for four years.
  • 1977 - France released Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
  • 2001 - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice released a review of the escape of the "Texas 7." It stated that prison staff missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by ignoring a fire alarm, not reporting unsupervised inmates and not demanding proper identification from inmates.

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