What happened On This Day in History?!
Gunners & Ali - On This Day
Thursday, 11 January 2024 - 3 minutes
On This Day...
- Milk in Bottles was delivered for the first time in Brooklyn, New York in 1878.
- Popular Mechanics magazine was first published in the US in 1902.
- Insulin was first used to treat diabetes in Toronto in 1922.
- Whiskey A Go-Go, one of America's first discotheques, opened in Los Angeles in 1964.
- US surgeon Luther Terry officially reported for the first time that SMOKING may be hazardous to health in 1964.
- National Tennis Centre (Rod Laver Arena since 2000) opened in Melbourne in 1988.
- The last milk bottle rolled off the production line in Queensland in 1996.
- J.K. Rowling finished writing the 7th and last Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in room 552 of the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh in 2007.
- Sir Edmund Hilary, the first man to climb Mount Everest (along with his guide Tenzing Norgay) died aged 88 in 2008.
Today is also the birthday of singers Naomi Judd, Daryl Braithwaite, Vicki Peterson, Mary J Blige & Cody Simpson.
Source: YouTube/Daryl Braithwaite
