(posted 7397 days ago)Ananova:
Captain Cook discovered Hawaii on this day
Events which happened on this day in history include:1778 Captain Cook discovered Hawaii.
1788 A penal settlement was established in Botany Bay, Australia.
1879 The first England-Wales football international was played at Kennington Oval in London, England winning 2-1.
1882 AA Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, was born in St John's Wood, London.
1911 US pilot Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss aircraft, made the first landing on the deck of a ship - the cruiser Pennsylvania moored in San Francisco Bay.
1912 British explorer Captain Scott reached the South Pole - only to find the Norwegian Amundsen had arrived 35 days earlier.
1933 The "bodyline bowling" row flared up in an Australian v England Test match in Adelaide.
1944 The 900-day siege of Leningrad ended.
1977 In the worst rail disaster in Australian history, 82 people died when a Sydney-bound train was derailed.
Story filed: 08:06 Sunday 18th January 2004