Today is Tuesday, January 11, the 11th day of 2011. There are 354 days left in the year.
1569 ― First recorded lottery in England is drawn at St. Paul's Cathedral
1672 ― Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1919 ― Three-year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
1922 ― Insulin first used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1963 ― First discotheque opens, The Whiskey-a-go-go in Los Angeles, Calif. 1973 ― Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington, D.C.
1964 ― Panama ends diplomatic relations with U.S.
1972 ― East Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
1978 ― Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (first time three spacecraft link)
1892 ― Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
1994 ― Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA