January 18

Today in History
• 1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands
• 1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay
• 1871 - Wilhelm, King of Prussia from 1861, proclaimed the first German Emperor
• 1886 - The Hockey Association was formed in England
• 1896 - The x-ray machine was exhibited for the first time
• 1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
• 1919 - The World War I Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France
• 1991 - Eastern Airlines shut down after 62 years due to financial problems


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Museum Selfie Day
• National Forrest Day
• National Gourmet Coffee Day
• National Michigan Day
• National Peking Duck Day
• National Thesaurus Day
• National Winnie the Pooh Day
• Weedless Wednesday

Birthdays
• 885 - Daigo, 60th Emperor of Japan (897-930), born in Kyoto, Japan
• 1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
• 1726 - Hendrik, prince of Prussia and diplomat
• 1779 - Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (Roget's Thesaurus)
• 1782 - Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52)
• 1813 - Joseph Glidden, American inventor of 1st commercial usable barbed wire
• 1854 - Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
• 1858 - Daniel Williams, American who performed the 1st open heart surgery