Jan. 11, Insulin used for treating diabetes for the first time

1693- Mount Etna volcano erupts in Sicily, Italy claiming the lives of 20,000 people.

1693- An earthquake hits parts of southern Italy near Sicily killing 60,000 people.

1759- The first life insurance corporation inaugurated in Philadelphia, America.

1861- Alabama secedes from the United States during the American Civil War.

1922- Using the insulin for treating diabetes for the first time in history.

1923- French and Belgian forces enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to force Germany to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I.

1942- Japan occupies Kuala Lumpur during the World War II.

1948- Britain informs the UN that about 1974 Palestinians were killed and injured in one year at the hands of Jewish groups.

1960-Chad gains its independence from France.

1964- Panama ends its diplomatic relations with the United States.

1972 – East of Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.

1998- More than hundred people killed in a massacre in Sidi Hamid town in Algeria at the hands of the Takfiri groups.

2007-Vietnam becomes the 150th WTO member state.

Born Today:

347- Roman emperor Theodosius I.

Passed away:

1964- The first-post independence Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury.

1999- Egyptian writer and novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous.

R. al-Jazaeri/ Ghossoun

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