Tuesday, January 11, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 11
1908:President Theodore Roosevelt declares over 800,000 acres of Arizona’s Grand Canyon to be a national monument, one of the many national monuments, parks and wildlife refuges created during his presidency. The Grand Canyon becomes a national park in 1919.

1775: Francis Salvador takes his seat in the South Carolina Provincial Congress as the first Jewish elected official in the American colonies. Known as the Paul Revere of the South, Salvador will also be the first recorded Jewish casualty of the American Revolution, as the leader of a militia ambushed by a group of Loyalists and Cherokees on Aug. 1, 1776.

1964: U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry announces that smoking is dangerous to a person’s health and can cause lung cancer and other diseases.

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