11th January: Today In History

Today is January,  the 11th day of 2016. There are 346 days left in the year. Today's Highlight In History; Birthdays:   1857 Fred Archer, English champion jockey   1864 Henry G.Selfridge, US born founder of 'Selfridges' stores   1929 Rod Taylor, Australian born film actor   1939 Uche Chukwumerije, journalist, administrator, and publisher. He was the director of propaganda in the defunct Republic of Biafra   1953 John Sessions, English comedian   1957 Bryan Robson, Footballer & former England captain   1963 Jason Connery, Actor son of Sean Connery Events:   1787 William Herschel discovered that the planet Uranus had moons   1922 The first ever successful insulin treatment was given to a Canadian man   1928 Thomas Hardy, the English playwright and poet, died aged 87   1962 There was an outbreak of smallpox in Britain   1970 Ojukwu flees to Ivory Coast.   1971 The first divorce in Britain was granted under the new Divorce Act   1973 The Open University awarded its first degrees   1984 French farmers hijacked English lorries in a dispute against meat imports   1993 Sale of registration forms for the presidential poll begins with aspirants paying a 1,000naira non-refundable fee.   1995 Driving examiners went on strike over plans to make changes to the way there were paid