On Jan. 11, 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to declare its secession from the Union.

In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim the Grand Canyon as a national monument.

In 1964, The U.S. Surgeon General issued a report that concluded that “cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate.”

In 2002, the first al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

In 2010, Mark McGwire admitted that he’d used steroids and human growth hormones.

In 2021, House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against then-President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection.”