History for January 18 - On-This-Day.com
Peter Roget 1779 - Physician, lexicographer, Daniel Webster 1782 - American politician, Secretary of State under three presidents, A.A. Milne 1882 - Author, playwright, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh
Oliver Hardy 1892 - Comic actor (Laurel & Hardy), Cary Grant 1904 - Actor, Kevin Costner 1955 - Actor ("Dances With Wolves," "Waterworld")
1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II.
1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.
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