{"id":8832,"date":"2022-01-18T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=196847"},"modified":"2022-01-18T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T06:19:08","slug":"18-january-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/18-january-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"18 January: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dominic Sandbrook\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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18 January 1283<\/h3>\n

During the final stages of his second war of conquest in Wales<\/a>, Edward I<\/a> gained control of the Conwy valley by capturing the native Welsh castle of Dolwyddelan.<\/p>\n

18 January 1778<\/h3>\n

Captain Cook encounters the Hawaiian Islands. He names them the Sandwich Islands after his sponsor John Montagu Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty. Cook was killed there the following year on Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

18 January 1879<\/h3>\n

The Religious Tract Society publishes the first edition of the Boys\u2019 Own Paper, a Christian alternative to the various \u2018penny dreadfuls\u2019 that were in circulation at the time. Its first article is My First Football Match, by an Old Boy.<\/p>\n

18 January 1882<\/h3>\n

Birth in Kilburn, North London, of poet, playwright and Winnie the Pooh creator Alan Alexander \u2018AA\u2019 Milne. As a child he attended Henley House School where one of his teachers was, briefly, HG Wells.<\/p>\n

18 January 1911<\/h3>\n

American aviator Eugene Ely became the first person to land an aeroplane on a warship when he piloted his biplane onto the deck of the armoured cruiser USS Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/p>\n

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