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Historical events & facts — January 11
What happened on January 11?
On January 11, 1922, Canadian physician Frederick Banting and medical student Charles Best administered purified insulin to a diabetic human patient for the first time — young Leonard Thompson — at Toronto General Hospital. The boy survived and the finding marked the beginning of modern diabetes treatment, which until then was almost invariably fatal.
On January 11, 1946, Enver Hoxha proclaimed the People's Republic of Albania, establishing one of the most hermetic and radical communist regimes in the world. Albania progressively isolated itself from all its allies — Yugoslavia, the USSR and China — and went so far as to declare itself the "world's only atheist state". Hoxha's regime lasted until 1990, leaving the country as the poorest in Europe.
On January 12, 2010, a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, destroying Port-au-Prince and causing between 100,000 and 316,000 deaths — the highest figures ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. The earthquake left 1.5 million people homeless. Reconstruction of the poorest country in the Americas was slow and complicated by successive hurricanes and a cholera epidemic.
Notable birthdays — January 11
Famous people born on January 11
Socrates Nelson
Socrates Nelson was an American businessman, politician, and pioneer who served one term as a Minnesota State Senator from 1859 to 1861. He was a general store owner, lumberman, and real estate speculator associated with numerous companies in the insurance and rail industries.
August Heissmeyer
August Friedrich Heissmeyer or Heißmeyer, was a German member of the Nazi Party who rose to become an SS-Obergruppenführer in the Schutzstaffel (SS). He held several major commands, including as the chief of the SS Main Office from 1935 to 1939 and as the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Berlin district from 1939 to 1945.
Spencer Walklate
Spencer Walklate was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and served as a special operations serviceman who was killed in action in World War II.
Rod Taylor
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975).
Chris Ford
Christopher Joseph Ford was an American professional basketball player and head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Mad Bomber", Ford played most of his NBA career with the Detroit Pistons before finishing his career as a member of the Boston Celtics. In the Celtics' season opener in 1979, he was credited with making the first official three-point shot in NBA history.
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