Today in History: British Explorer James Cook Reaches Hawaii

January 18 is the 18nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days left until the end of the year (348 in leap years).

Events

  • 532 – The Nika revolt that started in Constantinople (today Istanbul) was completely suppressed. This bloodiest revolt in history, in which 30.000 people died, began on January 13.
  • 1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro discovered Lima, the capital of Peru.
  • 1778 – British explorer James Cook reached Hawaii.
  • 1896 – The X-ray machine was first demonstrated to the public in New York. The name “X” symbolized the uncertainty of what type of ray it was.
  • 1903 – United States President Theodore Roosevelt's radio message to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom was the first transatlantic communication by radio from the United States.
  • 1906 – Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin was executed. Babushkin was one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks).
  • 1911 – An airplane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time. Pilot Eugene Burton Ely landed on the USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) in San Francisco Harbor.
  • 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. He dreamed of being the first person to do so, but Roald Amundsen had done it about a month before him.
  • 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference, formed by representatives of the Allied Powers, opened to make agreements with the defeated states of World War I. The map of Europe was redrawn.
  • 1927 – The Treaty of Lausanne was rejected by the US Senate.
  • 1928 – Three people from the Circassian Hacı Sami gang were executed in Eminönü Square. These people were sentenced to death for allegedly assassinating Atatürk.
  • 1929 – Leon Trotsky was deported from the Soviet Union.
  • 1931 – Naşide Saffet Esen won the Türkiye Beauty Queen Contest organized by Cumhuriyet newspaper.
  • 1940 – The National Protection Law was passed.
  • 1943 – The Soviet Union announced that it had broken the German siege of Leningrad.
  • 1944 - Trak The passenger ferry sank after hitting rocks on its way from Çanakkale to Bandırma: 24 people died.
  • 1946 – The opera Madam Butterfly was staged in Ankara.
  • 1947 – Ten citizens from the Senirkent sub-district of Uluborlu district of Isparta sent a protest letter to the Presidency of the Turkish Grand National Assembly via a notary. In the letter, they wrote that the gendarmerie systematically mistreated them to the extent of torture, even though they had committed no crime.
  • 1950 – The Democrat Party (DP) demanded the right of workers to strike.
  • 1951 – Vietnam Liberation Front guerrillas retreat from Hanoi; the city falls to the French.
  • 1954 – The Foreign Capital Law was passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
  • 1964 – The People's Republic of Pemba was established.
  • 1966 – Prisoners demanding amnesty in Ankara Prison revolted. 260 prisoners in Istanbul Üsküdar Toptaşı Prison began a hunger strike.
  • 1966 – Vefa Poyraz was appointed governor of Istanbul.
  • 1969 – The first pulsars emitting regular electromagnetic waves were discovered by American scientists.
  • 1977 – The bacterium that causes the mysterious pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease was discovered and Legionella pneumophila was named.
  • 1983 – The Ministry of Culture prepared a Cinema Bill. The Ministry was bringing control to films with the bill.
  • 1984 – In the hearing of the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) case, the defendants were made to wear uniforms.
  • 1989 – Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir, Günaydın After the newspaper, he bought Gelişim Publishing.
  • 1991 – Iraq fires Scud missiles at the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa.
  • 1993 – An avalanche fell on the Üzengili village of Bayburt; 56 people died and 22 were injured.
  • 1996 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's two-year marriage ended in divorce.
  • 2005 – The 800-passenger passenger aircraft Airbus A380 was introduced to the press in Toulouse (France).
  • 2010 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, convicted of the murder of journalist and writer Abdi İpekçi and two separate robberies, was released from Sincan F Type Prison.

Births

  • 1519 – Izabela Jagiellonka, wife of King János I of Eastern Hungary (d. 1559)
  • 1689 – Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
  • 1752 – John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
  • 1779 – Peter Roget, English physician and linguist (d. 1869)
  • 1795 – Anna Pavlovna, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1865)
  • 1813 – George Rex Graham, American journalist, editor and publisher (d. 1894)
  • 1825 – Edward Frankland, English chemist and academic (d. 1899)
  • 1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer and pianist (d. 1894)
  • 1849 – Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
  • 1851 – Albert Aublet, French artist and painter (d. 1938)
  • 1852 – Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, French Admiral and Minister of the Navy (d. 1924)
  • 1857 – Otto von Below, Prussian general (d. 1944)
  • 1867 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d.1916)
  • 1871 – Benjamin I, 266th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople (d. 1946)
  • 1873 – Memed Abashidze, Georgian political leader, writer and philanthropist (d. 1937)
  • 1876 ​​– Elsa Einstein, Albert Einstein’s second wife and cousin (d. 1936)
  • 1879 – Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
  • 1880 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist (d. 1933)
  • 1882 – AA Milne, English writer (d. 1956)
  • 1882 – Lazare Lévy, French pianist, organist, composer and teacher (d. 1964)
  • 1889 – Kanji Ishiwara, Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1949)
  • 1892 – Oliver Hardy, American film actor (from the duo Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1957)
  • 1896 – Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1982)
  • 1898 – George Dawson, American author (d. 2001)
  • 1904 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
  • 1911 – Danny Kaye, American stage, film and TV comedian (d. 1987)
  • 1913 – Ali Sururi, Turkish theater and cinema actor (d. 1998)
  • 1915 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (one of the pioneers of Eurocommunist thought and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982) (d. 2012)
  • 1925 – Gilles Deleuze, French writer and thinker (d. 1995)
  • 1927 – İsmet Sıral, Turkish musician, saxophonist, flutist and ney player (d. 1987)
  • 1927 – Perihan Tedü, Turkish theater actress (d. 1992)
  • 1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician and 1998 Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2020)
  • 1937 – Pilar Cansino, Spanish actress
  • 1938 – Anatoli Kolesov, Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler and coach (d. 2012)
  • 1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian F1 driver (d. 1982)
  • 1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director and winner of the Academy Award for Best Director
  • 1961 – Mustafa Demir, Turkish architect and politician
  • 1966 – Yaşar Tüzün, Turkish politician
  • 1967 – Annette Hess, German screenwriter
  • 1971 – Pep Guardiola, Spanish manager
  • 1979 – Cem Bahtiyar, Turkish musician and bassist of the band maNga
  • 1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, actor, film director and producer
  • 1980 – Jason Segel, American actor
  • 1982 – Atacan Öztürk, Turkish professional football player
  • 1983 – Kaan Sekban, Turkish comedian
  • 1990 – José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias, Spanish football player
  • 1995 – Samu Castillejo, Spanish footballer

Deaths

  • 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 92 BC)
  • 474 – Leo I became the emperor of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire in the period 457 – 474 (b. 401)
  • 896 – Humâreveyh bin Ahmed bin Tulun became the ruler of Tulunid in the period 884-896 (b. 864)
  • 1213 – Tamar, the famous queen who ruled the Kingdom of Georgia from 1184-1213 (b. 1160)
  • 1253 – Henry I was King of Cyprus (b. 1217)
  • 1367 – Pedro I, King of Portugal (b. 1320)
  • 1471 – Go-Hanazono, 102nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession (b. 1418)
  • 1557 – Pietro Bembo, Italian Knights Hospitaller, cardinal, scholar, poet and literary theorist (b. 1470)
  • 1623 – Kara Davud Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. ?)
  • 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch physician, merchant, and founder and first ruler of the Cape Colony (b. 1619)
  • 1730 – Antonio Vallisneri, Italian medical doctor, physician and naturalist (b. 1661)
  • 1799 – Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Austrian herbalist and physician (b. 1722)
  • 1802 – Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, French astronomer (b. 1718)
  • 1803 – Sylvain Maréchal, French poet, philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1750)
  • 1862 – John Tyler, American politician and 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
  • 1869 – Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and third Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1812)
  • 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
  • 1882 – Naile Sultan, daughter of Abdulmecid (b. 1856)
  • 1886 – Sadık Pasha, one of the Polish founders of Polonezköy (b. 1804)
  • 1890 – Amadeo I, King of Spain (b. 1845)
  • 1896 – Charles Floquet, French politician (b. 1828)
  • 1899 – William Edwin Brooks, Irish ornithologist (b. 1828)
  • 1906 – Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin, Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Bolsheviks) (b. 1873)
  • 1918 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian publisher and writer (b. 1846)
  • 1925 – JME McTaggart, British idealist thinker (b. 1866)
  • 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
  • 1949 – Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman and fraudster (b. 1882)
  • 1956 – Makbule Atadan, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s sister (b. 1885)
  • 1960 – Nahid Sırrı Örik, Turkish writer (b. 1895)
  • 1967 – Linné Ahlstrand, American model and actress (b. 1936)
  • 1969 – Hans Freyer is a German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)
  • 1970 – David O. McKay is the 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
  • 1970 – Mehmet Mümtaz Tarhan, Turkish lawyer and politician (former Governor of Istanbul) (b. 1908)
  • 1975 – Arif Müfid Mansel, Turkish archaeologist (b. 1905)
  • 1977 – Carl Zuckmayer, German playwright (b. 1896)
  • 1985 – Davut Sulari, Turkish folk music artist (b. 1925)
  • 1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist and travel writer (b. 1940)
  • 1990 – Rusty Hamer is an American actor (b. 1947)
  • 1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1903)
  • 2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect and activist (b. 1897)
  • 2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of DR Congo (assassinated in his home in Kinshasa by one of his personal guards) (b. 1939)
  • 2010 – Reha Oğuz Türkkan, Turkish lawyer, historian, writer and Turkologist (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Evin Esen, Turkish actress (b. 1949)
  • 2015 – Alberto Nisman, Argentinian prosecutor (b. 1963)
  • 2016- Asha Patil, Indian actress (b.1936)
  • 2016 – Leila Alaoui, Moroccan-French photographer and video artist (b. 1982)
  • 2016 – António de Almeida Santos, Portuguese socialist politician (b. 1926)
  • 2016 – Glenn Frey, American rock guitarist, singer, composer, and actor (b. 1948)
  • 2016 – Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1929)
  • 2017 – Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator (b. 1919)
  • 2017 – Red Adams, American baseball player (b. 1921)
  • 2017 – Yosl Bergner, Israeli painter of Austrian-Jewish origin (b. 1920)
  • 2017 – Ion Besoiu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
  • 2017 – Ronan Fanning, Irish historian (b. 1941)
  • 2017 – Ymer Pampuri, Albanian weightlifter (b. 1944)
  • 2017 – Roberta Peters, American soprano and opera singer (b. 1930)
  • 2018 – John Barton, English theatre director (b. 1928)
  • 2018 – Wallis Grahn, Swedish actress (b. 1945)
  • 2019 – John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985)
  • 2019 – Dale Dodrill, Former American football player and businessman (b. 1926)
  • 2019 – Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (b. 1938)
  • 2019 – Cees Haast, Dutch cyclist (b. 1938)
  • 2019 – Etienne Vermeersch, Belgian philosopher, activist and former academic (b. 1934)
  • 2019 – Ivan Vutsov, former Bulgarian international footballer and coach (b. 1939)
  • 2020 – Urs Egger, Swiss film, television director and journalist (b. 1953)
  • 2020 – Petr Pokorný, Czech Protestant clergyman, educator and writer (b. 1933)
  • 2021 – Jean-Pierre Bacri, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1951)
  • 2021 – Carlos Burga, Peruvian professional boxer (b. 1952)
  • 2021 – Nombulelo Hermans, South African politician (b. 1970)
  • 2021 – Lubomir Kavalek, Czech-American chess player (b. 1943)
  • 2021 – Maria Koterbska, Polish singer (b. 1924)
  • 2021 – Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu, 23rd generation Ottoman prince. Son of Prince Mehmet Selim Efendi, son of Abdulhamid II, son of Prince Mehmet Abdülkerim Efendi (b. 1930)
  • 2021 – Jimmie Rodgers, American folk-pop singer (b. 1933)
  • 2022 – Paco Gento, Former Spanish international footballer (b. 1933)
  • 2022 – Jordan Michallet, French rugby union player (b. 1993)
  • 2022 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress (b. 1942)
  • 2022 – Peter Robbins, American child actor and voiceover artist (b. 1956)
  • 2023 – Denis Monastirsky, Ukrainian lawyer, politician and Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (b. 1980)
  • 2023 – Marcel Zanini, Turkish-French jazz musician (b. 1923)