On This Day January 11th

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January 11th is the Eleventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 354 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.

1569 – First recorded lottery in England.

1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.

1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

1908 – The Grand Canyon National Monument was created.

1922 – Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.

1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences creation at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, went on the air, connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.

1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote to approve the American League adopting the designated hitter position.

 

Birthdays

1630 – John Rogers, English American minister, physician, and academic (d. 1684)

1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)

1814 – James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)

1872 – G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic (d. 1956)

1885 – Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist (d. 1977)

1911 – Tommy Duncan, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967)

1924 – Slim Harpo, American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1970)

1925 – Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises (d. 2016)

1949 – Chris Ford, American basketball player and coach (d. 2023)

1956 – Robert Earl Keen, American singer-songwriter

1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)

1975 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player

1987 – Jamie Vardy, English footballer

 

Holiday Spotlight

 Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day

Although no properly documented history of Healthy Weight or Healthy Look Day exists, our weight has always played a vital role in the health of our bodies. Contrary to popular opinion, you do not have to be super skinny or in the slimmer category to certify a quality health status. Your weight could fall more on the plus side, and you would still be healthy.

 Weight is the force of gravity on an object and is, therefore, dependent on the context of the object. However, numerous things can affect our weight, such as bone mass, height, etc., and that’s why it became essential to find a way to measure our weight in terms of our health status besides just hopping on a scale. That led to the invention of metrics such as the Body Mass Index (B.M.I.).

 B.M.I. is derived from a person's mass (weight) and height. It can be derived from a table or chart or personally calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your body height in meters. The B.M.I. is a convenient and reliable system for measuring one’s weight. It broadly categorizes one as underweight, average weight, overweight, or obese based on tissue mass (muscle, fat, and bone) and height. It provides an easy way to know your health status in proportion to your tissue mass, not just your weight.

 The Belgian Adolphe Quetelet devised the basis of the B.M.I. between 1830 and 1850. The modern term ‘body mass index’ for the ratio of human body weight to squared height was coined in a paper published in the July 1972 edition of the “Journal of Chronic Diseases.” B.M.I.s below 18.5 are at risk of being underweight, while those above 25 tend to be overweight or even obese. But this differs in age, race, and country.

 

Other Include

Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day

Girl Hug Boy Day

Heritage Treasures Day (U.K.)

Hot Toddy Day

International Thank-You Day

Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day

Milk Day

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day

Secret Pal Day

World Sketchnote Day

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