January 10, 2021 279 Today is Monday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2021. There are 354 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 11, 2020, health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan reported the first death from what had been identified as a new type of coronavirus; the patient was a 61-year-old man who’d been a frequent customer at a food market linked to the majority of cases there. On this date: In 1815, Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to withdraw from the Union.