January 18th in History
January 18th in History
- 1778: Captain Cook discovers what is now called the Hawiian Islands
- 1871: Germany has its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia
- 1911: A plane lands on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA
- 1929: Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
- 1943: Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
- 1944: The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ends after over two years
January 18th birthdays
- 1689: Charles de Montesquieu, French philosopher
- 1779: Peter Roget, Founder of Roget's Thesaurus
- 1881: Gaston Gallimard, French publisher
- 1892: Oliver Hardy, American comedian
- 1904: Cary Grant, American Hollywood film actor
