You have permission to edit this collection.
Edit
site-logo
Home
  • About Us
  • e-Edition
  • Newsletters
  • Online Services
  • Calendar
  • Weather
  • Manage subscription
News
  • Local News
  • History
  • Community Billboard
  • Massachusetts
  • U.S. News
  • U.S. Politics & Elections
  • World News
  • Coronavirus
  • AP's FactCheck
Obituaries
Arts & Culture
  • Arts-theater
  • Books
  • Entertainment
  • Food
  • Home & Garden
  • UpCountry Magazine
  • Advice
Business
  • Business
  • Stock Market
  • Real Estate
Health and Wellness
Opinion
  • Editorials
  • Columnists
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Submit a Letter
  • Political Cartoons
Sports
  • Local Sports
  • Berkshire All Stars
  • Bruins
  • Celtics
  • NASCAR
  • Red Sox
Special Sections
Podcasts
  • Accents: The voices of our immigrant neighbors
  • Sports: Mendel and the Mike
Games
  • Puzzles Palace
  • Arkadium
About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Come work for us
  • Bennington Banner
  • Brattleboro Reformer
  • Manchester Journal
  • UpCountry Magazine
  • Buy Eagle photos
  • Subscription services
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Advertise
  • RSS Feeds
  • Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship
  • Announcement Forms
Classifieds: Jobs & Legals & More
  • Jobs
  • Place a free classified ad
  • Place a display ad
  • Classifieds
  • Legals
  • Weekly flyers
Shop Local
  • Best of the Berkshires
  • Doggone Virtual Contest
Commercial printing
site-logo
  • News
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Coronavirus
  • Arts & Culture
  • Calendar
  • Sports
  • Archives
PHOTOS: Today in History for Jan. 11, 2021
Share this
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • WhatsApp
  • SMS
  • Email
  • Print
  • Save
    Latest e-Edition

    Latest e-Edition

    • The Berkshire Eagle
    site-logo
    Friday, February 26, 2021
    • Print Edition
    • 27° Clear

    PHOTOS: Today in History for Jan. 11, 2021

    • By The Associated Press
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    1 of 11
    First Lady Visits Black Soldiers 1942

    First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt attends a pageant depicting the contributions of Black people in America, in New York, Jan. 11, 1942. The First Lady speaks with some soldiers who attended or took part in the pageant, where she was the principal speaker.

    • ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Roosevelt

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasts his annual message to Congress, Jan. 11, 1944, in Washington. The president topped a five-point victory program with a recommendation for national service legislation to make all able-bodied adults available for the war effort. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)

    • GEORGE R. SKADDING
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    MOUNT EVEREST HEROES

    Sardar Tenzing Norgay, right, of Nepal and Edmund P. Hillary of New Zealand, left, show the kit they wore when conquering the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, at the British Embassy in Katmandu, capital of Nepal, on June 26, 1953. Edmund Hillary, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, reached the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain. (AP Photo)

    • ASSOCIATED PRESS
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Radiation Effects

    James Gleason, an official of a Philadelphia construction firm, points to a deadly cylinder of radioactive Cobalt, discovered in the auto of a workman in Milford, Connecticut on Jan. 11, 1956 after it had been missing from a utility company project 16 hours. The workman was unaware of the deadly aspect of the capsule when he took it from the job. (AP Photo)

    • AP
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    MERCURY ASTRONAUT GLENN

    NASA's Mercury astronaut, John Glenn sits inside the training capsule, Jan. 11, 1961, in preparation for manned space flight. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)

    • HARVEY GEORGES
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Vietnam  S   U.S. Troops  Guns
    • Ryan
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Iron Maiden

    The British hard Rock group Iron Maiden performing Friday night, Jan 12, 1985 at the opening night of Rio de Janeiro's Rock in Rio music festival. (AP Photo)

    • Anonymous
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Haiti Elections 1988

    A large banner spans a Port-au-Prince Street, Monday, Jan. 11, 1988 urging Haitians to vote in the scheduled national elections January 17. Traffic is heavy as Tap Taps, the local means of public transportation, line the street. The elections were rescheduled after violence forced cancellation of the elections on Nov. 29, 1987. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite)

    • Scott Applewhite
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Soviet Collapse

    Armed Soviet Army soldiers keep a vigil from their vehicle as they watch crowds near the press center in Vilnius, Lithuania on Friday, Jan. 11, 1991. The troops later moved in to take the facility, according to a Lithuanian government spokesman, after firing over the heads of demonstrating Lithuanian nationalist. No one was reported injured. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianchenko)

    • Alexander Zemlianchenko
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Britain Torture Charges

    In this Jan. 11, 2002,photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. 

    • EAGLE FILE PHOTO
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    Steroids McGwire Baseball

    FILE - This April 17, 2004, file photo shows former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Mark McGwire getting emotional during pre-game ceremonies honoring him, before the Cardinals game against the Colorado Rockies in St. Louis. McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade and he was apologizing.(AP Photo/Kyle Ericson, File)

    • KYLE ERICSON
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save

    More like this...

    1 of 11
    First Lady Visits Black Soldiers 1942

    First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt attends a pageant depicting the contributions of Black people in America, in New York, Jan. 11, 1942. The First Lady speaks with some soldiers who attended or took part in the pageant, where she was the principal speaker.

    • ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
    Roosevelt

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasts his annual message to Congress, Jan. 11, 1944, in Washington. The president topped a five-point victory program with a recommendation for national service legislation to make all able-bodied adults available for the war effort. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)

    • GEORGE R. SKADDING
    MOUNT EVEREST HEROES

    Sardar Tenzing Norgay, right, of Nepal and Edmund P. Hillary of New Zealand, left, show the kit they wore when conquering the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, at the British Embassy in Katmandu, capital of Nepal, on June 26, 1953. Edmund Hillary, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, reached the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain. (AP Photo)

    • ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Radiation Effects

    James Gleason, an official of a Philadelphia construction firm, points to a deadly cylinder of radioactive Cobalt, discovered in the auto of a workman in Milford, Connecticut on Jan. 11, 1956 after it had been missing from a utility company project 16 hours. The workman was unaware of the deadly aspect of the capsule when he took it from the job. (AP Photo)

    • AP
    MERCURY ASTRONAUT GLENN

    NASA's Mercury astronaut, John Glenn sits inside the training capsule, Jan. 11, 1961, in preparation for manned space flight. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)

    • HARVEY GEORGES
    Vietnam  S   U.S. Troops  Guns
    • Ryan
    Iron Maiden

    The British hard Rock group Iron Maiden performing Friday night, Jan 12, 1985 at the opening night of Rio de Janeiro's Rock in Rio music festival. (AP Photo)

    • Anonymous
    Haiti Elections 1988

    A large banner spans a Port-au-Prince Street, Monday, Jan. 11, 1988 urging Haitians to vote in the scheduled national elections January 17. Traffic is heavy as Tap Taps, the local means of public transportation, line the street. The elections were rescheduled after violence forced cancellation of the elections on Nov. 29, 1987. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite)

    • Scott Applewhite
    Soviet Collapse

    Armed Soviet Army soldiers keep a vigil from their vehicle as they watch crowds near the press center in Vilnius, Lithuania on Friday, Jan. 11, 1991. The troops later moved in to take the facility, according to a Lithuanian government spokesman, after firing over the heads of demonstrating Lithuanian nationalist. No one was reported injured. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianchenko)

    • Alexander Zemlianchenko
    Britain Torture Charges

    In this Jan. 11, 2002,photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. 

    • EAGLE FILE PHOTO
    Steroids McGwire Baseball

    FILE - This April 17, 2004, file photo shows former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Mark McGwire getting emotional during pre-game ceremonies honoring him, before the Cardinals game against the Colorado Rockies in St. Louis. McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade and he was apologizing.(AP Photo/Kyle Ericson, File)

    • KYLE ERICSON

    More like this...

    More information

    • Today in History for Jan. 11, 2021
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • WhatsApp
    • SMS
    • Email
    • Print
    • Save
    site-logo
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • YouTube
    • Pinterest
    • Instagram

    Meet the Rest of Our News Family

    • Bennington Banner
    • Brattleboro Reformer
    • Manchester Journal

    Sections

    • News
    • Sports
    • Business
    • Arts & Culture
    • Obituaries
    • Opinion
    • Local Events
    • Online Features

    Services

    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Come Work for Us
    • UpCountry Magazine
    • Buy Eagle photos
    • Newsletters
    • Commercial printing
    • Promote Your Event
    • Place a free classified ad
    • Place a display ad
    • RSS Feeds
    © Copyright 2021 New England Newspapers, Inc., 75 S Church St Pittsfield, MA | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy
    Powered by BLOX Content Management System from TownNews.com.
    • Notifications
    • Settings
    You don't have any notifications.

    Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.

    Topics

    all