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On This Day - January 18

from Cathy (cathyvpreece@aol.com)

"PA" News

Tue 18 Jan 2005
2:48am (UK)

On This Day - January 18

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.

1989 Knuckledusters, hand claws and other offensive weapons were officially banned by the Home Office.

1992 Faced with a new outbreak of terrorism, the Government decided to send more troops to Northern Ireland.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay purchased Hollinger International for £260m to acquire Telegraph newspapers.

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