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Boston Herald
Boston Herald
11 Jan 2025
Associated Press


NextImg:Today in History: January 11, Theodore Roosevelt makes the Grand Canyon a national monument

Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2025. There are 354 days left in the year.

On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim the Grand Canyon as a national monument; it would become a national park in 1919.

In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to declare its secession from the Union.

In 2002, the first al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

In 2010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he’d used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball’s home run record in 1998.

In 2021, House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against then-President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol building five days prior.