January 18 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 18
In the headlines today:

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