11 January IN THE HISTORY

1693  Mount Etna erupted in Sicily.   1787  Titania and Oberon, the moons of Uranus, were discovered by William Herschel.   1922  Insulin was first used to treat diabetes in Leonard Thompson, a boy of 14, in Canada.   1942  Japan conquered Kuala Lumpur in Malaya.   1972  East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh.   1989  140 nations agreed to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc).   2008  Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, saw snowfall for the first time in a century.   2009  The MV Teratai Prima, an Indonesian ferry, capsized in the Makassar Strait due to stormy weather. More than 230 people were killed. V. Shrinivas (Seenu)