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This is a list of selected January 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the
Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the
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Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative
article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on
how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled
featured article or
picture of the day.
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1778 – English explorer
James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
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1866 – Frederick Binks, the first student, arrives at Wesley College in
Melbourne, which is today one of the largest schools in Australia by enrolment.
2003 – Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of
Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes.
1956 – Navvab Safavi, an Iranian
Shia cleric and the founder of the
Fada'iyan-e Islam fundamentalist group, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister
Hossein Ala'.
1983 – Thirty years after his death, the
International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the
1912 Summer Olympics.