1778 Captain Cook discovers what is now called the Hawiian Islands

1871 Germany has its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia

1911 A plane lands on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA

1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo

1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

1944 The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ends after over two years

1689 The birth of Charles de Montesquieu, French philosopher

1779 The birth of Peter Roget, Founder of Roget's Thesaurus

1881 The birth of Gaston Gallimard, French publisher

1892 The birth of Oliver Hardy, American comedian

1904 The birth of Cary Grant, American Hollywood film actor2007 Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in over 40 years, becomes visible over the Southern Hemisphere. Hurricane Kyrill creates havoc as it passes across northern Europe.jan 18 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.

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