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Anniversaries: Jan 18

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Events

In 1778 Captain Cook sighted the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) for the first time; in 1919 the Versailles Peace Conference opened.

Births

Joseph Farwell Glidden, farmer who patented the first commercially viable barbed wire, 1813; A. A. Milne, children’s writer and dramatist, 1882; Arthur Ransome, journalist who covered the Russian Revolution and married Trotsky’s secretary before writing children’s classics, 1884; Sir Thomas Sopwith, aircraft designer, 1888; Oliver Hardy, comedian, 1892; Cary Grant, actor, 1904.

Deaths

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Jan van Riebeeck, founder of Cape Town in 1653, 1677; Rudyard Kipling, first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907), 1936; Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer, 1980.