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What happened today in history?
Uncle Woody's Almanac
for
January 18
| 1996 | Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson files for divorce from pop star Michael Jackson.
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| 1992 | Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years in business, due to financial difficulties.
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| 1990 | Washington, DC Mayor Marion Barry is arrested in an FBI sting operation on drug possession charges.
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| 1985 | Actor Wilfrid Brambell (A Hard Day's Night, Steptoe and Son) dies at age 72.
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| 1975 | CBS-TV debuts The Jeffersons, a situation comedy spin-off from All in the Family.
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| 1970 | Mormon religious leader David McKay dies at age 96.
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| 1967 | Albert DeSalvo, self-proclaimed "Boston Strangler," is convicted in Cambridge, MA, of armed robbery and assault.
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| 1936 | Author Rudyard Kipling dies in Burwash, England.
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| 1929 | Walter Winchell, columnist for the New York Daily Mirror, makes his radio broadcast debut.
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| 1919 | The World War (One) Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France.
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| 1912 | The expedition of explorer Robert F. Scott reaches the South Pole, only to find that the Roald Amundsen expedition had arrived there first. (Scott's party would perish on the return trip.)
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| 1862 | John Tyler, 10th US president, dies in Richmond, VA, at age 71.
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| 1788 | The first English settlers arrive in Botany Bay, Australia, to establish a penal colony.
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