On This Very Day
January 18th
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- 1258
Mongol army of 150,000 led by Hulagu Khan reaches Baghdad's walls.
- 1535
Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1777
San Jose, California is founded.
- 1915
Train crash in Colima-Guadalajara, Mexico, results in approximately 600 deaths.
- 1919
Bentley Motors Limited is established by Walter Owen Bentley in London.
- 1778
Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the 'Sandwich Islands'. View Post →
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- 1911
First aircraft landing on a ship as Eugene B. Ely flies onto USS Pennsylvania.
- 1995
The 'yahoo.com' domain is created, marking a milestone in internet history.
- 1883
Thomas Edison's first electric lighting system using overhead wires starts in Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1898
Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in the first intercollegiate hockey game.
- 1955
'Scrabble' makes its debut in the board game market.
- 1977
Snowfall occurs in Miami, Florida for the only time in the city's history.
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