History for January 18

History for January 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Daniel Webster 1782, Oliver Hardy (Laurel & Hardy) 1892, Cary Grant 1904


Bobby Goldsboro 1941, David Ruffin (The Temptations) 1941, Kevin Costner 1955


1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."


1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.


1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.


1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II.


1950 - The federal tax on oleomargarine was repealed.


1964 - The plans for the original World Trade Center in New York were unveiled to the public.


1967 - Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, MA, of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison. Desalvo was killed in 1973 by a fellow inmate.


1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.