On this day: January 18th

On this day: January 18th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: January 18th

336: Saint Mark is elected Catholic Pope.
1535: Lima, Peru, founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1671: Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1886: Modern hockey is born. The foundation of The Hockey Association in England formalized a modern version of the game that had already been played in ancient times.
1896: The first X-ray machine is demonstrated.
1911: First aircraft landing on a ship made by Eugene Ely.
1919: The Paris Peace Conference opens. The aim of the conference was to set the peace terms after World War I, resulting in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
1943: Insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto take up arms against the German oppressors. This led to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II.
1966: Robert Clifton Weaver was sworn in as the first African American cabinet member in U.S. history, becoming President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1975: The Jeffersons debut on CBS.
1997: Børge Ousland becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. The Norwegian polar explorer walked 3000 km (1864 miles) across the Earth’s southernmost continent.
2002: The Sierra Leone Civil War ends. The conflict had lasted 11 years and left over 50,000 dead.

1862: John Tyler (American lawyer, politician, 10th President of the United States)
1936: Rudyard Kipling (English author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate)
1952: Curly Howard (American actor, comedian)
1956: Konstantin Päts (Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia)
2011: Sargent Shriver (American politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France)

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