• Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2014. There are 354 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 11, 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued "Smoking and Health," a report by an advisory committee which concluded that "cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate."
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• On this date:
• In 1759, the first American life insurance corporation, for "poor and distressed" Presbyterian ministers and their widows and children, was chartered in Philadelphia.
• In 1805, the Michigan Territory was created by an act of Congress.
• In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to withdraw from the Union.
• In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919).
• In 1913, the first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.
• In 1927, the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was proposed during a dinner of Hollywood luminaries at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
• In 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that made her the first person to fly solo across any part of the Pacific Ocean.
• In 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, met with Italian leader Benito Mussolini in Rome.
• In 1942, Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same day that Imperial Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.
• In 1963, the Beatles' single "Please Please Me" (B side "Ask Me Why") was released in Britain by Parlophone.
• In 1977, France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

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