Today is Sunday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2026. There are 354 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Jan. 11,\u00a02010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he\u2019d used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball\u2019s home run record in 1998.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to declare its secession from the Union.<\/p>\n
In 1908, the Grand Canyon was established as a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt. The move protected it from mining and other activities until it became a national park in 1919.<\/p>\n
In 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began what would be the first solo flight from Hawaii to California, completing the 2,400-mile flight across the Pacific to Oakland in just under 19 hours.<\/p>\n
In 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued \u201cSmoking and Health,\u201d a report that concluded that \u201ccigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2002, the first al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at the U.S. military\u2019s Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.<\/p>\n
In 2021, House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, charging him with \u201cincitement of insurrection\u201d after the attack on the U.S. Capitol building five days earlier.<\/p>\n
In 2024, U.S. and British forces bombed more than dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, in a massive retaliatory strike for the militant group\u2019s attacks on international cargo ships and other targets in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s birthdays:<\/p>\n
Filmmaker Alfonso Arau is 94.
\nGolf Hall of Famer Ben Crenshaw is 74.
\nJazz guitarist Lee Ritenour is 74.
\nOlympic swimming gold medalist Tracy Caulkins is 63.
\nFilmmaker Malcolm D. Lee is 56.
\nSinger Mary J. Blige is 55.
\nActor Amanda Peet is 54.
\nActor Devin Ratray is 49.
\nActor Aja Naomi King is 41.
\nSinger and former competitive swimmer Cody Simpson is 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Sunday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2026. There are 354 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,68178,68179,4,673,67,4311,4310,33805],"class_list":{"0":"post-514945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-january-11-history","11":"tag-mark-mcgwire-steroids","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","15":"tag-stlouis","16":"tag-stlouiscardinals","17":"tag-today-in-history"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115875923145239141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}