On This Day:
Wednesday January 11, 2012
This is the 11th day of the year, with 355 days remaining
in 2012.
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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