Today in History : January 18
1486 : Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York.
1701 : Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, becomes king of Prussia.
1778 : Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the ‘Sandwich Islands’ after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich.
1836 : Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.
1862 : John Tyler, former president of the U.S., is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
1902 : The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site.
1910 : Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco.
1916 : The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum.
1942 : General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States takes the lead in the Far East war criminal trials.
1945 : The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army.
1948 : Gandhi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslim-Hindu riots.
1962 : The United States begins spraying foliage with herbicides in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
1964 : Plans are disclosed for the World Trade Center in New York.
1978 : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolate the cause of Legionnaire’s disease.
1991 : Iraq starts firing Scud missiles at Israeli cities.
Born on January 18
1782 : Daniel Webster, congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and secretary of state before the Civil War.
1813 : Joseph Glidden, inventor.
1858 : Daniel Hale Williams, physician who performed the first open heart surgery, founder of Chicago’s Provident Hospital.
1882 : A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist (Winnie the Pooh).
1892 : Oliver Hardy, film comedian, one half of Laurel and Hardy.
1904 : Cary Grant, U.S. film actor (Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest).
1486 : Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York.
1701 : Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, becomes king of Prussia.
1778 : Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the ‘Sandwich Islands’ after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich.
1836 : Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.
1862 : John Tyler, former president of the U.S., is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
1902 : The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site.
1910 : Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco.
1916 : The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum.
1942 : General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States takes the lead in the Far East war criminal trials.
1945 : The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army.
1948 : Gandhi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslim-Hindu riots.
1962 : The United States begins spraying foliage with herbicides in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
1964 : Plans are disclosed for the World Trade Center in New York.
1978 : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolate the cause of Legionnaire’s disease.
1991 : Iraq starts firing Scud missiles at Israeli cities.
Born on January 18
1782 : Daniel Webster, congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and secretary of state before the Civil War.
1813 : Joseph Glidden, inventor.
1858 : Daniel Hale Williams, physician who performed the first open heart surgery, founder of Chicago’s Provident Hospital.
1882 : A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist (Winnie the Pooh).
1892 : Oliver Hardy, film comedian, one half of Laurel and Hardy.
1904 : Cary Grant, U.S. film actor (Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest).
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