January 11

On This Day In History
	1935: Amelia Earhart's Hawaii-to-California flight On this day in 1935, Amelia Earhart, one of the world's most celebrated aviators, made the first successful solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance longer than that from the United States to Europe.
Amelia Earhart.
Biography Of The Day
	Jean Chrétien Born this day in 1934, lawyer and Liberal Party politician Jean Chrétien served as prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003—the first Canadian prime minister since 1945 to win three consecutive majorities.
Jean Chrétien, 1994
More Events On This Day In History
2001	The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of America Online and Time Warner, and AOL Time Warner (since shortened to Time Warner) stock began trading the next morning.
1964	1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry announced that cigarette smoking is linked to lung cancer.
1878	1878 Milk was delivered for the first time in glass bottles in New York City.
	1861 Alabama seceded from the Union, the fourth state to do so in the run-up to the American Civil War.
	1755/57 Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was born in the British West Indies.