January 18<\/p>\n
1778 \u2013 James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the “Sandwich Islands” in honor of the then First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich<\/p>\n
1896 \u2013 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith at Davidson College, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
1911 \u2013 Eugene Ely performs the first landing on a ship, flying a Curtiss Pusher onto the USS Pennsylvania<\/em> in San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up in against the German occupation.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Capital Airlines Flight 20, a Vickers Viscount, crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 United Airlines Flight 266, a Boeing 727, crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 38 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first 2 people to BASE jump from objects in all 4 categories: B<\/strong><\/em>uildings, A<\/em><\/strong>ntennae, S<\/em><\/strong>pans (bridges), and E<\/em><\/strong>arth (cliffs).<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family after revoking them because he had been previously paid for playing 2 seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting operation.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, is unveiled in Toulouse, France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 18 1778 \u2013 James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the “Sandwich Islands” in honor of the then First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich 1896 \u2013 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith at Davidson College, North Carolina. 1911 \u2013 Eugene Ely performs … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89388,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63953\/revisions\/89388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}