^B{^#!16!18 January^N! Feast day of St Prisca, St Peter's Chair, Rome, St Desle or Deicolus, and St Volusian.
^B{1778^B} Captain Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii. ^B{1871^B} Wilhelm, King of Prussia from ^B{1861^B}, was proclaimed the first German Emperor. ^B{1911^B} The first landing of an aircraft on a ship's deck was made by US pilot Eugene Ely, in San Francisco Bay. ^B{1919^B} The Versailles Peace Conference opened. ^B{1944 ^B}The German siege of Leningrad, which began Sept ^B{1941^B}, was relieved. ^B{1972^B} Former Rhodesian prime minister Garfield Todd and his daughter were placed under house arrest for campaigning against Rhodesian independence. ^B{1977^B} In Australia, a Sydney-bound train derailed, killing 82 people.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Peter Mark Roget, English lexicographer, ^B{1779^B}; A A Milne, English author, ^B{1882^B}; Oliver Hardy, US comedian, ^B{1892^B}; Cary Grant, US film actor, ^B{1904^B}; Danny Kaye, US film actor and comedian, ^B{1913^B}; David Bellamy, English botanist, ^B{1933^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}John Tyler, 10th US president, ^B{1862^B}; Rudyard Kipling, English author, ^B{1936^B}; Sydney Greenstreet, British film actor, ^B{1954^B}; Hugh Gaitskell, British statesman, ^B{1963^B}; Cecil Beaton, English photographer and designer, ^B{1980^B}; George Markstein, British author, ^B{1988^B}.
