Tuesday 11 January 2011

On This Day - 11th January


1755 - Alexander Hamilton born
1926 - Grant Tinker born
1930 - Rod Taylor born
1934 - Jean Chrétien born
1946 - Naomi Judd born
1952 - Ben Crenshaw born
1962 - At least 2,000 people are feared dead after a huge avalanche in the Peruvian Andes engulfs nine villages and Kim Coles born
1971 - Mary J. Blige born
1972 - Amanda Peet born
1973 - The first graduates from the Open University are awarded their degrees after two years studying from home
1993 - 1993: BA dirty tricks against Virgin cost £3m. British Airways ends one of the most bitter and protracted libel actions in aviation history in a humiliating climb-down
1998 - Islamic extremists are blamed for the deaths of 100 people in two villages in Algeria
2000 - Seven young fishermen are feared drowned off the Scottish coast after the disappearance of their scallop dredger in force nine gales

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