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-- card: 27050 from stack: in.0
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January 18
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In 1778, English navigator, Captain James Cook, discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich Islands."
In 1782, lawyer and statesman Daniel webster was born in Salisbury, N.H.
In 1788, the first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.
In 1862, the 10th U.S. president, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Va. at age 71.
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Movie director John Boorman (1932)
Singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro (1940)
Comedian -singer-musician Brett Hudson (1952)
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"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true."
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Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (1828-1910)