(posted 7009 days ago)"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.