January 11, 2024
QUOTE
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.
--Alexander Hamilton
BIRTHDAYS
1755 – Alexander Hamilton, General, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury
1923 – Carroll Shelby, Race car driver, engineer, and businessman, founded Carroll Shelby International
1925 – Grant Tinker, Television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises
1942 – Clarence Clemons, Saxophonist and actor
1946 – Naomi Judd, Singer-songwriter and actress
IN MEMORY
1843 – Francis Scott Key, Lawyer, author, and songwriter
1928 – Thomas Hardy, Novelist and poet
1988 – Pappy Boyington, Colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
1995 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain
2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer
IN ON THIS DAY
1569 – The first recorded lottery in England.
1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers, is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1922 – Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.