eso ha pasado un 18 Enero

1778 : James Cook discovers Hawaii


James Cook was the first European to land in Hawaii. He found them by luck and named them the Sandwich Islands. He died when he came back there a year later.

1943 : Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


On January 18, 1943 began the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto to fight the deportation of the 40,000 remaining Jews. This was the first urban uprising against the Germans.

1969 : Landslides in California


On January 18, 1969, following several days of torrential rains, landslides killed 91 people in southern California. In the city of Glendora, one million cubic meters of rocks and mud slided down the hill and took away 200 houses.

2005 : First A380


The first A380, the largest commercial aircraft in the world, is unveiled in Toulouse.

Actualidad del día : 18 Enero

Revolution Day in Tunisia
OnJanuary 18, we commemorate the beginning of the 1952 Revolution that brought independence to Tunisia. For 2011, this national holiday has even more meaning.
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day

Cita del día : 18 Enero

Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Cumpleaños : 18 Enero

Montesquieu, Escritor (1689)
Sir Edmund Barton, Primer ministro de Australia (1849)
Henri Giraud, General francés (1879)
Oliver Hardy, Actor (1892)
Cary Grant, Actor (1904)
Danny Kaye, Actor (1913)
Gilles Deleuze, Filósofo francés (1925)
John Boorman, Director de cine (1933)
Ray Dolby, Inventor estadounidense (1933)
John Hume, Político de Irlanda del Norte, ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz (1937)
Paul Freeman, Actor Inglés (1943)
Paul Keating, Primer ministro de Australia (1944)
Gilles Villeneuve, Piloto canadiense (1950)
Kevin Costner, Actor (1955)
Laurence Courtois, Tenista belga (1976)
Thor Hushovd, Ciclista noruego (1978)
Marya Roxx, Cantante de Estonia (1986)

Nos han dejado un 18 Enero

John Tyler, Presidente de los Estados Unidos (1862)
Baldassare Verazzi, Pintor italiano (1886)
Rudyard Kipling, Escritor (1936)
Sydney Greenstreet, Actor (1954)
Kathleen Norris, Escritor (1966)
Hasan Askari, Escritor paquistaní (1978)
Eleanor Hibbert, Escritor (1993)
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