18 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 18
By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose
Do you enjoy learning new things daily? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.
I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as from some of my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at The History Place, Brainy History,orDates In History.These events for today’s blog post are primarily from History Orb and Wikipedia.
While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in Silicon Valley, Calif. and beyond. I admit, they just add fun and fascination to life.
Here are today’s 18 world-changing events that happened in history on today’s date, January 18. I hope you find them interesting, too.
18 World-Changing Events That Happened on January 18
336 – St. Mark elected Catholic Pope.
1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day.
1644 – The Pilgrims in Boston report America's first UFO sighting.
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama.
1777 - Mission Santa Clara patented; first mass said by Fray de la Pena on Jan. 12, 1777.
1778 – Capt. James Cook accidentally discovers the Sandwich Islands (the Hawaiian Islands). Cook named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was one of his sponsors as the First Lord of the Admiralty. Hawaii was referred to as the Sandwich Islands until the 1840s, when the local name of Hawaii became commonly used instead.
1884 - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1896 - First demonstration of an X-ray machine in the U.S. in New York City.
1911 – The first successful shipboard landing of a plane.
1912 - English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen beat them to it.
1929 - New York Daily Mirror gossip columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio.
1943 – The United States rations bread & metal. The sale of pre-sliced bread is banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts needed for the war effort.
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1964 – The Beatles first appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand at #35).
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1983 - IOC restores athlete Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball.
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for the first time.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
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