This Day, That Year – January 11

Hudson Motor Co displayed the first sedan-type car at the thirteenth Auto Show in New York on this day in 1913.

Did you know that:

• The first recorded lottery in England was drawn in St Paul’s Cathedral on this day in 1569
• The moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel on this day in 1787
• Laurens Hammond, an American who invented the Hammond organ, was born on this day in 1895