Today in History
18 January
Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
Roald Amundsen
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| 1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia | ||
| 1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod | ||
| 1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV | ||
| 1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde | ||
| 1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru |
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| 1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston | ||
| 1650 French Prince Louis II of Cond‚ captured | ||
| 1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam | ||
| 1691 English king Willem III travels to The Hague | ||
| 1701 Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia | ||
| 1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) | ||
| 1777 San Jose California, founded | ||
| 1778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands | ||
| 1779 Peter Roget, the author of "Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases," was born. His book, tremendously helpful for the verbally challenged, was first published in 1852. | ||
| 1788 English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony | Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I) |
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| 1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance | ||
| 1795 Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I was born | ||
| 1857 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I) was born | ||
| 1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona (U.S.A.) forms | ||
| 1871 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck | ||
| 1882 A.A. Milne was born. He is especially remembered for his children's stories, "Winnie the Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner." | ||
| 1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum | ||
| 1892 Oliver Hardy was born. He later teamed up with Stan Laurel to form the comedy team of "Laurel & Hardy." | ||
| 1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa | ||
| 1901 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re | |
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| 1904 Actor Cary Grant was born in Bristol, England | ||
| 1905 French govt of Combes falls | ||
| 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before | ||
| 1913 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy | ||
| 1913 American entertainer Danny Kaye was born in Brooklyn, New York. | ||
| 1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die | ||
| 1919 French President Raymond Poincare formally opened the (World War I) Peace Conference at Versailles, France. | ||
| 1923 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies | ||
| 1933 White Sands National Monument, NM established | ||
| 1943 Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis | Roald Amundsen |
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| 1943 Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad | ||
| 1943 US rations bread & metal | ||
| 1943 Uprising in Warsaw ghetto | ||
| 1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 | ||
| 1954 Fanfani forms Italian govt | ||
| 1956 German DR forms own army (National People's Army) | ||
| 1960 US & Japan sign joint defense treaty | ||
| 1966 Robert Clifton Weaver was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first African-American Cabinet member in American history. He was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson. | ||
| 1974 Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord | ||
| 1975 "The Jeffersons" premiered on television, one of the first sitcoms about an African-American family. Formerly neighbors of the Bunkers on "All in the Family," the Jeffersons moved to Manhattan's East Side where they "finally got a piece of the pie." | ||
| 1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board | ||
| 1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress | ||
| 1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time | ||
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