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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18: National Gourmet Coffee Day:
-- While all kinds of coffee are what dreams are made of, gourmet
coffee is something exceptional. The quality and consistency of
gourmet coffee are distinct from your regular cup of Joe and the
secret lies in its beans and creation. There is no specific origin
of coffee that can be pinpointed. Coffee's past is shrouded in
legend and theory, but one thing is certain - it has been around
for centuries. It is believed that the ancestors of today's Oromo
people in Ethiopia's Jimma region were the first to notice the
coffee plant's energizing power. However, there is no definitive
evidence that coffee was initially grown before the 15th century,
or even where it was first cultivated. There is evidence of either
coffee consumption or knowledge of the coffee tree in Yemeni Sufi
monasteries dating back to the early 16th century, which swiftly
spread to Mecca and Medina. By the 16th century, it had spread
across the Middle East, South India (Karnataka), Persia, Turkey,
and northern Africa. Coffee then expanded throughout the Balkans,
Italy, Europe, and Southeast Asia. With its ability to provide
instant energy, coffee has quickly conquered areas of the world
and hearts since then. A simple cup of coffee evolved over time to
suit various palates and purposes. From frappuccinos and cold
brews to espresso shots and even espresso martinis, you can now
find coffee anywhere and everywhere and however, you like. This is
how gourmet coffee came into being. Gourmet coffee is made using
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higher altitude to thrive and provide smooth, powerful, and
aromatic brews that normal beans simply cannot match. It is a
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January 18: National Winnie The Pooh Day:
-- January 18, 1882 #BOTD: #HBD! On the anniversary of author A.A.
Milne's birthday, we commemorate the author's adorable,
honey-loving bear as well as Milne's actual son, Christopher
Robin, who is Pooh's companion. Milne's lovable Pooh Bear was
inspired by a real female black bear named Winnipeg who lived at
the London Zoo during World War I. The author's son, Christopher
Robin, would often visit the bear, and he named his own teddy bear
both after her and a swan named Pooh. This friendship inspired a
collection of books starting with When We Were Young in 1924. E.H.
Shepard beautifully illustrated the books. Their adventures took
them and millions of children through the Hundred Acre Woods. Each
character played a unique role in the books. Whether the wisdom of
Owl or Rabbit lead the group awry or a celebration ensued, the
story's characters became beloved around the world. Milne's
stories have been translated into over 50 languages and are
considered classic children's stories today. Since at least 1986,
National Winnie The Pooh Day has been observed across the United
States. So snuggle up with your favorite Pooh fan, a pot of honey,
and take turns reading about the adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Share your favorite Pooh Bear adventure or quote. Watch a Winnie
the Pooh movie. Listen to songs like "Return to Pooh Corner"
by Kenny Loggins. You can also read more about this lovable bear
in 7 Intriguing Stories About Winnie-The-Pooh. And use
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1689: #BOTD: #HBD!
Montesquieu, French lawyer, judge, man of letters, historian and
political philosopher of the enlightenment (d. February 10, 1755)
is #born Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de
Montesquieu at the Chateau de la Brede in southwest France, 25
kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux. Generally referred to simply
as Montesquieu, he is the principal source of the theory of
separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions
throughout the world. He is also known for doing more than any
other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the
political lexicon. His anonymously published The Spirit of Law
(1748), which was received well in both Great Britain and the
American colonies, influenced the Founding Fathers of the United
States in drafting the U.S. Constitution. Montesquieu died from a
high fever at the age of 66 in Paris, France. He was buried in the
Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and the Revolution obliterated all
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1782: #BOTD: #HBD! Daniel
Webster, American orator, lawyer and politician, 14th United
States Secretary Of State (d. October 24, 1852) is #born in
Salisbury, New Hampshire. He twice served in the United States
House Of Representatives, representing New Hampshire (1813-1817)
and Massachusetts (1823-1827), served as a U.S. Senator from
Massachusetts (1827-1841 and 1845-1850) and was twice the United
States Secretary Of State, under Presidents William Henry Harrison
and John Tyler (1841-1843) and Millard Fillmore (1850-1852). He
and James G. Blaine were the only two people to serve as Secretary
Of State under three presidents. Webster also sought the Whig
Party nomination for President three times: in 1836, 1840 and
1852. He was one of the most highly regarded courtroom lawyers of
the era and shaped several key U.S. Supreme Court cases that
established important constitutional precedents that bolstered the
authority of the federal government. Webster entered politics
during the era of the Second Party System, which was the political
system in the United States from about 1828 to 1854, characterized
by rapidly increasing voter interest and personal loyalty to
parties. He was identified with the National Republican Party and
supported John Quincy Adams. As a senator, Webster was an
outstanding spokesman for American nationalism with powerful
oratory that made him a key Whig leader. His explication of the
United States as not a creation of individual states but a
cohesive whole in itself strengthened the power and integrity of
the Union during the Nullification Crisis. He spoke for
conservatives and led the opposition to Democrat Andrew Jackson
and his Democratic Party, firmly challenging Jackson' policies in
the Bank War. Webster was a spokesman for modernization, banking,
and industry, but not for the common people who composed the base
of his opponents in Jacksonian democracy. "He was a
thoroughgoing elitist, and he reveled in it," says biographer
Robert Remini. Webster sought the presidency in the 1836 election,
winning only Massachusetts. He was appointed Secretary Of State in
1841 under William Henry Harrison, who soon died and was replaced
by John Tyler. Webster was the only member of Tyler' cabinet not
to resign following the President' actions in opposing the Whig
agenda. As a diplomat he is best known for negotiating the
Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 with Great Britain, which
established the border between the United States and Canada east
of the Rocky Mountains. He eventually resigned in 1843, and
returned to the Senate two years later. Chiefly recognized for his
Senate tenure, Webster was a key figure in the institution'
"Golden days". Webster was the Northern member of the
"Great Triumvirate", with his colleagues Henry Clay from
the West (Kentucky) and John C. Calhoun from the South (South
Carolina). His "Reply to Hayne" in 1830 has been
regarded as one of the greatest speeches in the Senate' history.
As with Clay, his fellow Whig, Webster wanted to see the Union
preserved and civil war averted. They both worked for compromises
to stave off the sectionalism that threatened war between the
North and the South. Webster' support for the Compromise Of 1850,
devised in part by Clay, proved crucial to its passage. The
decision was, however, widely unpopular in Massachusetts. As a
result, Webster resigned, but he soon after was appointed to serve
another term as Secretary Of State, this time under Millard
Fillmore. In 1957, a Senate committee selected Webster as one of
the five greatest U.S. Senators with Clay, Calhoun, Robert La
Follette, and Robert A. Taft. "Liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable!" he stated in the U.S. Senate
in 1830 in response to southern Senators who contended that
individual states had the right to refuse to obey Congress. Daniel
Webster died in Marshfield, Massachusetts of cirrhosis of the
liver and a subdural hematoma (blood clot in the brain) at the age
of 70. He is buried in Winslow Cemetery near his Thomas-Webster
Estate in Marshfield. His last words were "I still live."
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1871: The German Empire
(German: Das Deutsches Reich) (Imperial Germany [German:
Kaiserliches Deutschland], The Second Reich [German: Das Zweite
Reich], Germany (German: Deutschland]): Royal Accessions:
Accessions To The German Throne: -- Wilhelm I of Germany is
proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of
Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the
constitution of January 1, 1871, but he had hesitated to accept
the title. During the Franco-Prussian War, the South German states
joined the North German Confederation. The country was renamed
Deutsches Reich (the German Empire), and the title of
Bundesprasidium was amended with the title Deutscher Kaiser
(German Emperor). This was decided on by the legislative organs,
the Reichstag and Bundesrat, and William agreed to this on 18
December in the presence of a Reichstag delegation. The new
constitution and the title of Emperor came into effect on 1
January 1871. William, however, hesitated to accept the
constitutional title, as he feared that it would overshadow his
own title as King of Prussia. He also wanted it to be Kaiser Von
Deutschland ("Emperor of Germany"), but Bismarck warned
him that the South German princes and the Emperor of Austria might
protest. William eventually - though grudgingly - relented and on
January 18, in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, he
was proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm. The date was chosen as the
coronation date of the first Prussian king in 1701. In the
national memory, 18 January became the day of the foundation of
the Empire (Reichsgrundungstag), although it did not have a
constitutional significance. To many intellectuals, the coronation
of William was associated with the restoration of the Holy Roman
Empire. Felix Dahn wrote a poem, "Macte senex Imperator"
(Hail thee, old emperor) in which he nicknamed William Barbablanca
(whitebeard), a play on the name of the medieval emperor Frederick
Barbarossa (redbeard). According to the King asleep in mountain
legend, Barbarossa slept under the Kyffhauser mountain until
Germany had need of him. William I was thus portrayed as a second
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1888: #BOTD: #HBD! Sir Thomas
Sopwith, Commander Of The British Empire (CBE), Honary Fellow Of
The Royal Aeronatical Society (Hon FRAeS), English Aviation
Pioneer, ice hockey player, sailor, yachtsman and businessman,
whose Sopwith Camel fighter aircraft became one of the most iconic
fighter aircraft of the First World War and the plane was
responsible for shooting down the Red Baron (d. January 27, 1989)
is #born Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith in Kensington, London,
England. Sopwith became interested in flying after seeing John
Moisant flying the first cross-Channel passenger flight. His first
flight was with Gustave Blondeau in a Farman at Brooklands. He
soon taught himself to fly on a Howard Wright Avis monoplane and
took to the air on his own for the first time on October 22, 1910.
He crashed after travelling about 300 yards (275 m), but soon
improved, and on 22 November was awarded Royal Aero Club Aviation
Certificate No. 31, flying a Howard Wright 1910 Biplane. On
December 18, 1910, Sopwith won a 4000GBP prize for the longest
flight from England to the Continent in a British-built aeroplane,
flying 169 miles in 3 hours 40 minutes. He used the winnings to
set up the Sopwith School of Flying at Brooklands. In June 1912
Sopwith with Fred Sigrist and others set up the Sopwith Aviation
Company, initially at Brooklands. On October 24, 1912 using a
Wright Model B completely rebuilt by Sopwith and fitted with an
ABC 40 hp engine, Harry Hawker took the British Michelin Endurance
prize with a flight of 8h 23m. Sopwith Aviation got its first
military aircraft order in November 1912, and in December moved to
larger premisies in Kingston upon Thames. The company produced
more than 18,000 British World War I aircraft for the allied
forces, including 5747 of the Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter.
Sopwith was awarded the CBE in 1918. Bankrupted after the war by
punitive anti-profiteering taxes, he re-entered the aviation
business a few years later with a new firm named after his chief
engineer and test pilot, Harry Hawker. Sopwith became chairman of
the new firm, Hawker Aircraft. After the nationalisation of the
aviation interests of what was by then Hawker Siddeley, he
continued to work as a consultant to the company until 1980.
Sopwith's 100th birthday was marked by a flypast of military
aircraft over his home, Compton Manor in King's Somborne,
Hampshire. He died in Hampshire on nine days after his 101st
birthday. His grave and that of his second wife (Phyllis Brodie)
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1892: #BOTD: #HBD! Oliver
Hardy, American comedian, actor, singer, film director, one half
of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of
silent films and lasted 25 years, from 1927 to 1951, and Freemason
(d. August 7, 1957) is #born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia to
Oliver Hardy Sr., a Confederate veteran who had been wounded at
the Battle Of Antietam and was a recruiting officer for Company K,
16th Georgia Regiment, and Emily Norvell, descended from Captain
Hugh Norvell, who served in King William's War and helped found
and govern Williamsburg, Virginia. Known informally as "Babe",
Hardy appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short
films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his
first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In most of his silent films
before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe
Hardy. Hardy was initiated into Freemasonry at Solomon Lodge No.
20 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was inducted into the Grand Order
Of Water Rats, a quasi-Masonic organization with Masonic roots,
along with Stan Laurel, which in large part inspired their movie
Sons Of The Desert and the appreciation society for Oliver and
Hardy films that sprang from that movie. Oliver Hardy died from
cerebral thrombosis (a blood clot in the brain) at his home in
North Hollywood, Los Angeles at age 65. After he was cremated, his
ashes were interred in the Masonic Garden of Valhalla Memorial
Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. Laurel was inconsolable at the
loss of his "dear pal and partner"; his doctor advised
Laurel against attending the funeral, due to his own poor health,
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1904: #BOTD: #HBD! Cary
Grant, English-American actor, known for his Mid-Atlantic accent,
debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of
comic timing (d. November 29, 1986) is #born Archibald Alec Leach
at 15 Hughenden Road in the northern Bristol suburb of Horfield,
Southwest England, where he was raised. He was one of classic
Hollywood's definitive leading men from the 1930s until the
mid-1960s. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best
Actor, and in 1970 he was presented an Academy Honorary Award by
his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards. He was
accorded the Kennedy Center Honors in 1981. In 1999, the American
Film Institute named him the second greatest male star of Golden
Age Hollywood cinema, trailing only Humphrey Bogart. He became
attracted to theater at a young age when he visited the Bristol
Hippodrome. At 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender
Troupe for a tour of the US. After a series of successful
performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He
established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and
toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early
1930s. Grant initially appeared in crime films and dramas such as
Blonde Venus (1932) with Marlene Dietrich and She Done Him Wrong
(1933) with Mae West, but later gained renown for his performances
in romantic screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937) with
Irene Dunne, Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His
Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell, and The Philadelphia
Story (1940) with Hepburn and James Stewart. These pictures are
frequently cited among the greatest comedy films of all time.
Other well-known films in which he starred in this period were the
adventure Gunga Din (1939) and the dark comedy Arsenic and Old
Lace (1944). He also began to move into dramas such as Only Angels
Have Wings (1939) with Jean Arthur, Penny Serenade (1941) again
with Dunne, and None but the Lonely Heart (1944) with Ethel
Barrymore; he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
for the latter two. During the 1940s and 50s, Grant had a close
working relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, who cast him
in four films: Suspicion (1941) opposite Joan Fontaine, Notorious
(1946) opposite Ingrid Bergman, To Catch a Thief (1955) with Grace
Kelly, and North by Northwest (1959) with James Mason and Eva
Marie Saint, with Notorious and North by Northwest becoming
particularly critically acclaimed. The suspense-dramas Suspicion
and Notorious both involved Grant playing darker, morally
ambiguous characters. Toward the end of his career, Grant was
praised by critics as a romantic leading man, and he received five
nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, including
for Indiscreet (1958) with Bergman, That Touch of Mink (1962) with
Doris Day, and Charade (1963) with Audrey Hepburn. He is
remembered by critics for his unusually broad appeal as a
handsome, suave actor who did not take himself too seriously, and
able to play with his own dignity in comedies without sacrificing
it entirely. Grant was married five times, three of them
elopements with actresses Virginia Cherrill (1934-1935), Betsy
Drake (1949-1962), and Dyan Cannon (1965-1968). He had daughter
Jennifer Grant with Cannon. He retired from film acting in 1966
and pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics
firm Faberge and sitting on the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He
died of a stroke on November 29, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa, aged 82.
According to his request, he had no funeral or memorial service;
his remains were cremated in Los Angeles, and the ashes were
scattered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. On
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1905: #BOTD: Joseph Bonanno,
nicknamed Joe Bananas, Italian-American mob boss of the Bonanno
crime family (d. May 11, 2002) is born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno in
Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, to Salvatore Bonanno and
Catherine Bonventre. Joseph's uncles, Giuseppe Bonanno and his
older brother and advisor, Stefano, led a mafia clan in
Castellammare del Golfo. At the age of three, Bonanno immigrated
to New York City with his family, for about 10 years before he
moved back to Italy. He later slipped back into the United States
in 1924, by stowing away on a Cuban fishing boat bound for Tampa,
Florida. After the Castellammarese War, Salvatore Maranzano was
murdered in 1931, and Bonanno took control of most of the crime
family, and at age 26, Bonanno became one of the youngest-ever
bosses of a crime family. In 1963, Bonanno made plans with Joseph
Magliocco to assassinate several rivals on the Mafia Commission.
When Magliocco gave the contract to one of his top hit men, Joseph
Colombo, he revealed the plot to its targets. The Commission
spared Magliocco's life but forced him into retirement, while
Bonanno fled to Canada. In 1964, he briefly returned to New York
before disappearing until 1966. This ensued the "Banana War"
that lasted until 1968, when Bonanno retired to Arizona. Later in
life, he became a writer, publishing the book A Man of Honor: The
Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno in 1983. Bonanno died aged 97 on
May 11, 2002, in Tucson, Arizona. He is buried at Holy Hope
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1911: Aviation: The History
Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: The History Of
Naval Aviation: -- Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS
Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an
aircraft landed on a ship. In October 1910, Ely and Glenn Curtiss,
American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft
industry, met Captain Washington Chambers, USN, who had been
appointed by George Von Lengerke Meyer, the Secretary of the Navy,
to investigate military uses for aviation within the Navy. This
led to two experiments. On November 14, 1910, Ely took off in a
Curtiss pusher from a temporary platform erected over the bow of
the light cruiser USS Birmingham. The airplane plunged downward as
soon as it cleared the 83-foot platform runway; and the aircraft
wheels dipped into the water before rising. Ely' goggles were
covered with spray, and the aviator promptly landed on a beach
rather than circling the harbor and landing at the Norfolk Navy
Yard as planned. John Barry Ryan offered 500 USD to build the
platform, and a 500 USD prize, for a ship to shore flight. Two
months later, on January 18, 1911, Ely landed his Curtiss pusher
airplane on a platform on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania
anchored in San Francisco Bay. Ely flew from the Tanforan
Racetrack in San Bruno, California and landed on the Pennsylvania,
which was the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.
This flight was also the first ever using a tailhook system,
designed and built by circus performer and aviator Hugh Robinson.
Ely told a reporter: "It was easy enough. I think the trick
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1919: The Aftermath Of World
War I: The Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) (The Versailles
Peace Conference [1919-1920]): -- The Paris Peace Conference, the
meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World
War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers,
opens in Versailles, France. Involving diplomats from 32 countries
and nationalities, The Paris Peace Conference's decisions included
the creation of the League Of Nations, as well as the five peace
treaties with the defeated states; the awarding of German and
Ottoman overseas possessions as "mandates", chiefly to
Britain and France; reparations imposed on Germany; and the
drawing of new national boundaries (sometimes with plebiscites) to
better reflect ethnic boundaries. The main result was the Treaty
Of Versailles with Germany, which in section 231 laid the guilt
for the war on "the aggression of Germany and her allies".
This provision proved humiliating for Germany and set the stage
for the expensive reparations Germany was intended to pay (it paid
only a small portion before reparations ended in 1931). The five
major powers (France, Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States)
controlled the Conference. And the "Big Four" were the
Prime Minister of France, Georges Clemenceau; the Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George; the President of the
United States, Woodrow Wilson; and the Prime Minister of Italy,
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. They met together informally 145 times
and made all the major decisions, which in turn were ratified by
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1919: The Aftermath Of World
War I: The History Of Poland (1918-1939): The Second Polish
Republic (The Republic Of Poland): Prime Ministers Of Poland: --
Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly
independent Poland. On November 18, 1860 (New Style [Gregorian
Calendar]), Ignace Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist,
politician, statesman, patriot and spokesman for Polish
independence Ignace Paderewski (d. 1941) was born in Kurylowka,
Podolia, Poland. Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a favorite of concert
audiences around the world. His musical fame opened access to
diplomacy and the media. Paderewski played an important role in
meeting with President Woodrow Wilson and obtaining the explicit
inclusion of independent Poland as point 13 in Wilson' peace terms
in 1918, called the Fourteen Points. He was the prime minister of
Poland and also Poland' foreign minister in 1919, and represented
Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He served 10 months
as prime minister, and soon thereafter left Poland, never to
return. In 1922 he retired from politics and returned to his
musical life. His first concert after a long break, held at
Carnegie Hall, was a significant success. He also filled Madison
Square Garden (20,000 seats) and toured the United States in a
private railway car. After Pilsudski' coup d'etat in 1926,
Paderewski became an active member of the opposition to Sanacja
rule in Poland. In 1936 a coalition of members of the opposition
was signed in his mansion; it was nicknamed the Front Morges after
the name of the village. After the Polish Defensive War of 1939,
Paderewski returned to public life. In 1940 he became the head of
the National Council of Poland, a Polish parliament in exile in
London. He turned to America for help as well. He spoke to the
American people directly over the radio, the most popular media at
the time; the broadcast carried by over a hundred radio stations
in the United States and Canada. In late 1940 he crossed the
Atlantic again to advocate in person for the cause of aiding
Europe and defeating Nazism. In 1941, he witnessed a touching
tribute to his artistry and humanitarianism as US cities
celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first American tour by
putting on a Paderewski Week with over 6000 concerts in his honor.
The 80-year-old artist also restarted his Polish Relief Fund and
gave several concerts to gather money for it. However, his mind
was not what it had once been: scheduled again to play Madison
Square Garden, he refused to appear, insisting that he had already
played the concert, presumably remembering the concert he had
played there in the 1920s. After the Invasion Of Poland by Nazi
Germany, Paderewski returned to public life, and n 1940 he became
the head of the National Council of Poland, a Polish parliament in
exile in London. He turned to America for help as well. He spoke
to the American people directly over the radio, the most popular
media at the time; the broadcast carried by over a hundred radio
stations in the United States and Canada. In late 1940 he crossed
the Atlantic again to advocate in person for the cause of aiding
Europe and defeating Nazism. In 1941, he witnessed a touching
tribute to his artistry and humanitarianism as US cities
celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first American tour by
putting on a Paderewski Week with over 6000 concerts in his honor.
The 80-year-old artist also restarted his Polish Relief Fund and
gave several concerts to gather money for it. However, his mind
was not what it had once been: scheduled again to play Madison
Square Garden, he refused to appear, insisting that he had already
played the concert, presumably remembering the concert he had
played there in the 1920s. Paderewski was taken ill during one
such tour, on June 27, 1941. Despite signs of improving health and
recovery from pneumonia, Paderewski died in New York at 11:00
p.m., June 29, aged 80. He was temporarily buried in the USS Maine
Mast Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington,
Virginia, near Washington, D.C. In 1992, his body was brought to
Warsaw and placed in St. John' Archcathedral. His heart is encased
in a bronze sculpture in the National Shrine of Our Lady of
Czestochowa near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Early in 1941, the
music publisher Boosey and Hawkes had commissioned 17 prominent
American or North America-resident composers to contribute a solo
piano piece each for an album to commemorate the 50th anniversary
of Paderewski' American debut in 1891. His death in June caused
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1943: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland: The
Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, Judischer Wohnbezirk In
Warschau ["Jewish Residential District In Warsaw]; Polish:
Getto Warszawskie [The Warsaw Ghetto]): The Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising: -- The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto of
German-occupied Poland begins in opposition to Nazi Germany's
final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to
Treblinka. While the first armed uprising occured on January 18,
the main uprising started on April 19 when the Ghetto refused to
surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadefuehrer Juergen
Stroop, who then ordered the burning of the Ghetto, block by
block, ending on 16 May. A total of 13,000 Jews died, about half
of them burnt alive or suffocated. German casualties are not
known, but were not more than 300. It was the largest single
revolt by Jews during World War II. The Warsaw Ghetto was the
largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during
World War II. It was established by the Nazi German authorities in
the Muranow neighborhood of the Polish capital between October and
November 16, 1940 within the new General Government territory of
German-occupied Poland. There were over 400,000 Jews imprisoned
there, at an area of 1.3 sq miles, with an average of 7.2 persons
per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations. From the
Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were deported to Nazi camps and mass-killing
centers. In the summer of 1942 at least 254,000 Ghetto residents
were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during Grossaktion
Warschau under the guise of "resettlement in the East"
over the course of the summer. The death toll among the Jewish
inhabitants of the Ghetto is estimated to be at least 300,000
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1960: Cuba: The History Of
Cuba: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
(1953-1962): The Cuban Cold War: The Cuban Revolution: The
Consolidation Of The Cuban Revolution (Cuba Under Fidel Castro):
The Bay Of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasion De Bahia De Cochinos,
Invasion De Playa Giron, Batalla De Playa Giron): Operation 40: --
Vice President Richard Nixon holds the first meeting of what was
to become known as Operation 40 in his temporary office near the
Lincoln Memoria. Operation 40 was the code name for the anti-Cuban
covert action program conceived by Richard Bissel and presided
over by Vice President Richard Nixon, which authorized the CIA to
sponsor, organize, train, and equip Cuban refugees and Cuban
exiles as a guerrilla and paramilitary force force to overthrow
the government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and seize
control of the Cuban government after what was to become known as
The Bay Of Pigs Invasion (April 17-20, 1961). The group that ran
Operation 40 was presided over by then-Vice President Richard M.
Nixon and included Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant of
the State Department, National Security Adviser Gordon Gray, as
well as CIA director Allen Dulles. Tracy Barnes, senior staff
member at the CIA who served as principal manager CIA operations
in the 1954 Guatemalan Coup D'Etat, functioned as operating office
of the Cuban Task Force and as principal manager of the The Bay Of
Pigs Invasion. On December 11, 1959, following the Cuban
Revolution of January 1959, Colonel J.C. King, chief of the CIA's
Western Hemisphere Division, sent a confidential memorandum to CIA
director Allen W. Dulles. King argued that in Cuba there existed a
"far-left dictatorship, which if allowed to remain will
encourage similar actions against U.S. holdings in other Latin
American countries." This memorandum resulted in the
formation of Operation 40. On March 17, 1960, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower signed the National Security Council directive that
officially initiated Operation 40. Operation 40 was not only
involved in sabotage operations. One associate of the group,
although never a member, Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate
burglars whose capture led to the end of the presidency of Richard
Nixon, allegedly told author Mike Canfield: "this
assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally,
assassinate either members of the military or the political
parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate,
and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of
being foreign agents...We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at
that particular time." The group sought to incite civil war
in Cuba against the government of prime minister Fidel Castro.
When Operation 40 failed in accomplishing this goal, then in
October 1960, Brigade 2506 was created, a CIA-sponsored group made
up of 1,511 Cuban exiles who fought in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs
Invasion. On April 17, 1961, Vicente Leon Leon, with other members
of Operation 40, landed at the Bay of Pigs via the CIA-chartered
freighter Atlantico, and was killed in action. Operation 40 is a
playable faction in the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops. Within
the game's campaign mode, there is heavy implication that the main
protagonist and Operation 40 operative Alex Mason may have been
involved in the assassination of President Kennedy as a Soviet
sleeper agent. Operation 40 continued to operate unofficially
until disbanded in 1970 due to allegations that an aircraft that
was carrying cocaine and heroin in support of the group crashed in
California. By early 1960, President Eisenhower had begun
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1975: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: -- The Jeffersons, one of
the longest-running sitcoms in history, the second-longest-running
series with a primarily African American cast by episode count and
the first to prominently feature a married interracial couple,
premieres on the CBS television network. It ran for 11 straight
seasons and a total of 253 episodes, running until July 2, 1985.
It was a spin-off of All In The Family, another sitcom produced by
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18, 1983: The 1912 Summer
Olympics (Swedish: Olympiska Sommarspelen 1912) (The Games Of The
V Olympiad (Swedish: Den V Olympiadens Spel), Stockholm 1912): The
International Olympic Committee (IOC) (French: Comite
International Olympique [CIO]): The Restitution Of Jim' Thorpe's
Olympic Medals: -- Jim Thorpe, thirty years after his death, and
seventy years after his Olympic titles, medals and awards had been
stripped from him by the International Olympic Committee (IOC),
has all his Olympic titles, medals and awards restored by the
committee, who delivers his medals to his family. James Francis
Thorpe, Native American athlete, Olympic gold medalist, football
player and coach (May 22, 1887 - March 28, 1953) was born
Wa-Tho-Huk (Sac and Fox (Sauk) Mesquakie language: Bright Path)
near Prague, Indian Territory in modern Oklahoma. He was a member
of the Sac and Fox Nation, the largest of three federally
recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples.
Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for
the United States. Considered one of the most versatile athletes
of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912
pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate
and professional), professional baseball, and basketball. He lost
his Olympic titles in 1913 after the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) unanimously decided to strip Thorpe of his Olympic
titles, medals and awards and declare him a professional in
response to his having been found to have been paid for playing
two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the
Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in
place. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, and
attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time All-American for the
school's football team. After his Olympic success in 1912, which
included a record score in the decathlon, he added a victory in
the All-Around Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union. In
1913, Thorpe signed with the New York Giants, and he played six
seasons in Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919. Thorpe
joined the Canton Bulldogs American football team in 1915, helping
them win three professional championships; he later played for six
teams in the National Football League (NFL). He played as part of
several all-American Indian teams throughout his career, and
barnstormed as a professional basketball player with a team
composed entirely of American Indians. From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe
was nominally the first president of the American Professional
Football Association (APFA), which became the NFL in 1922. He
played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports
career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression. He
struggled to earn a living after that, working several odd jobs.
He suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing
health and poverty. He was married three times and had eight
children, before suffering from heart failure and dying in 1953.
Thorpe has received various accolades for his athletic
accomplishments. The Associated Press named him the "greatest
athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the
Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted him as part of its inaugural
class in 1963. Thorpe appeared in several films and was portrayed
by Burt Lancaster in the 1951 film Jim Thorpe - All-American. Jim
Thorpe died of heart failure in Lomita, California at the age of
65. He is buried at the Jim Thorpe Memorial in Jim Thorpe,
Pennsylvania; the Pennsylvania town that was named in his honor
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January 18, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The
Cold War): The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I):
Operation Desert Storm: -- At 01:00 GMT, Iraq fires 12 Scud
missiles at the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, killing 12
people. In response, Coalition air forces dramatically increase
aerial sorties against Scud missile launching sites and Scud
mobile missile launchers, and the United States deploys Patriot
anti-ballistic missile systems to Israel and Saudio Arabia. The
Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation
Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations
leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and
Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in
its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35
nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to
Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known
under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War,
Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War, before the
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January 18, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The
Cold War): The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I):
Operation Desert Storm: -- In response to the 12 Scud missiles
fired by Iraq at the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, killing
12 people, the United States tells Israel to not retaliate, out of
fear that it will escalate the war and trigger the collapse of the
Arab Coalition. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991),
codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17,
1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense
of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 -
February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by
coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against
Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The
war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War,
First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq
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January 18, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The
Cold War): The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I):
Operation Desert Storm: -- In response to the 12 Scud missiles
fired by Iraq at the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, killing
12 people, the U.S. deploys Patriot anti-ballistic missile systems
to Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 -
February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2,
1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of
troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm
(January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a
war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United
States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation
of Kuwait. The war is also known under other names, such as the
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18-19, 1994: Health Disasters In
The United States: Human Subject Research In The United States:
Racism: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Race And Health In
The United States: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (The Tuskegee Study
Of Untreated Syphilis In The Negro Male, The Tuskegee Experiment):
-- A multi-disciplinary symposium was held on the U.S. Public
Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: "Doing Bad in the
Name of Good?: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study And Its Legacy" at
the University of Virginia. Following that, interested parties
formed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee to develop
ideas that had arisen at the symposium, chaired by Vanessa
Northington Gamble. It issued its final report in May 1996, having
been established at a meeting on January 18-19 of that year. The
Committee had two related goals: President Bill Clinton should
publicly apologize to the survivors and their community for past
government wrongdoing related to the study due to the harm done to
the Macon County community and Tuskegee University, and the fears
of government and medical abuse the study created among African
Americans. No apology had yet been issued at the time. The
Committee and relevant federal agencies should develop a strategy
to redress the damages, specifically recommending the creation of
a center at Tuskegee University for public education about the
study, "training programs for health care providers",
and a center for the study of ethics in scientific research. A
year later on May 16, 1997, Bill Clinton formally apologized and
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Today, January 18, 2026
January 18: National Thesaurus Day: --
January 18, 1779: #BOTD: #HBD! Peter Mark Roget, British
physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding
secretary of The Portico Library, best known for publishing in
1852 the first thesaurus, "Thesaurus Of English Words And
Phrases" (d. September 12, 1869) is #born in Broad Street,
Soho, London. When you're looking for that perfect word to convey
your thought, or don't want to repeat the same word over and over
again, where do you go? The thesaurus, of course! You've got Peter
Mark Roget to thank for that wonderful book, and we celebrate his
creation on National Thesaurus Day on January 18! Roget started
the book in 1848 and finished in 1852 with 15,000 words. The
book's full original title was "Thesaurus Of English Words
And Phrases Classified And Arranged So As To Facilitate The
Expression Of Ideas And Assist In Literary Composition". This
groundbreaking book was designed to help writers and speakers by
grouping words with similar meanings, making expanding their
vocabulary and finding synonyms easier. The idea of a thesaurus,
however, dates back even further. The concept of collecting words
of similar meanings can be traced to works as early as the 1st
century by Philo of Byblos and the 4th century by Amara Sinha, an
Indian poet, and grammarian who wrote a thesaurus in verse form in
Sanskrit. These early attempts at creating repositories of
language laid the groundwork for what would become an essential
tool in the English language. Roget's Thesaurus has left a lasting
legacy, continuously updated and revised to stay relevant in the
modern world. It serves as a tool for finding synonyms and a way
to explore the depth and breadth of the English language. Thanks
to the thesaurus, we can do more than just tell friends we are
happy but merry, delighted, and overjoyed! We can do more than
have a conversation, but a discussion, a talk, or an exchange!
Writers and non-writers alike can be thankful for all the word
options available in a thesaurus, and celebrate the work of Peter
Mark Roget on National Thesaurus Day! Handy books full of
synonyms, they're like treasure chests of linguistic options,
adding depth and variety to languages.with words that give our
language its color, depth, and emotion. A thesaurus isn't just a
list of synonyms; it's a bridge to clearer, more vibrant
communication. By exploring its printed or digital pages, we
unlock a treasure trove of language, allowing us to express
ourselves more accurately and creatively. The benefits of
embracing a varied vocabulary are immense. For adults, it can
enhance communication skills, boost self-confidence, and even open
doors in professional settings. For children, a rich vocabulary is
linked to better reading comprehension and academic success.
Through word games, writing exercises, or simply flipping through
a thesaurus, we celebrate the words themselves and the ideas,
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Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Stansfield
Turner, United States Navy admiral who served as President of the
Naval War College (1972-1974), commander of the United States
Second Fleet (1974-1975), Supreme Allied Commander NATO Southern
Europe (1975-1977), and 12th Director of Central Intelligence
(1977-1981) under the Carter administration (b. December 1, 1923)
#dies at his home in Redmond, Washington, agee 94. He is buried at
the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.
Turner was born in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois
to Oliver Stansfield Turner, a real estate broker, and Wilhelmina
Josephine Wagner. A graduate of University of Oxford and the
United States Naval Academy, Turner served for more than 30 years
in the Navy, commanding warships, a carrier group, and NATO's
military forces in southern Europe, among other commands. Turner
was appointed to lead the CIA by Jimmy Carter in 1977 and
undertook a series of controversial reforms, including downsizing
the Agency's clandestine arm and emphasizing technical
intelligence collection over human intelligence. He also oversaw
the CIA's responses to the Iranian Revolution and the
Soviet-Afghan War. After leaving the CIA in 1981, Turner entered
the private sector, authored several books, and criticized
subsequent administrations, including the Bush administration's
handling of the Iraq War. He was a senior research scholar at the
University of Maryland, College Park's School of Public Policy.
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Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 1936: #DOTD: #RIP: Rudyard
Kipling, English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist,
Free Mason and Nobel Prize laureate (b. December, 30 1865) #dies
at Middlesex Hospital in London at the age of 70, of a perforated
duodenal ulcer. Kipling's body was laid in state in the Fitzrovia
Chapel, part of Middlesex Hospital, commemorated with a plaque
near the altar. The pallbearers at the funeral included Kipling's
cousin, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and the marble casket was
covered by a Union Jack. Kipling was cremated at Golders Green
Crematorium in north-west London, and his ashes interred at Poets'
Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey, next to
the graves of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Kipling's will was
proven on April 6, with his estate valued at 168,141 2s. 11d.
(roughly equivalent to 12,154,269 Pounds Sterling in 2021. Joseph
Rudyard Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his
work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894),
Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who
Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay"
(1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the
Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden"
(1899), and "If-" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in
the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one
critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the
United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said, "Kipling
strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as
distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In
1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first
English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its
youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded for the British
Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined
both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at
Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and
social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued
for much of the 20th century. George Orwell saw Kipling as "a
jingo imperialist", who was "morally insensitive and
aesthetically disgusting". Literary critic Douglas Kerr
wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire
passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural
history is far from settled. But as the age of the European
empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if
controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That,
and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative
gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." He maintained a
written correspondence with the founder of the Builders Of The
Adytum (BOTA) western mystery school that began when a
seven-year-old Case first began to write Kipling about his
paranormal lucid dreams. Kipling encouraged the boy as to the
validity of his paranormal pursuits, which ultimately led to Case
becoming a Free Mason like Kipling, and to devoting his life to
western esoterics.
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Today, January 18, 2026( #JCKaelin here: All this nonsense about
"it was a dark and stormy night" supposedly being the
worst opening sentence of the worst of all novels is just that --
sheer nonsense, and I'll do whatever I can do to popularize this
shouldn't-have-to-point-this-out fact. Always remember that just
because people say something is so doesn't make it so -- and the
next time you use, let alone hear, the phrases "the great
unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the
pen is mightier than the sword" and "dweller on the
threshold", remember it came from the pen of this great and
good man. :) .) ========= January 18, 1873: #DOTD: #RIP: Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician,
Secretary Of State for the Colonies (b. May 25, 1803) #dies at 2
am in Torquay, England just short of his 70th birthday after
enduring an intense pain for a week from a burst abscess in his
ear that formed after an operation to cure deafness. Bulwer-Lytton
had long suffered from a disease of the ear, and for the last two
or three years of his life lived in Torquay nursing his health.
What precisely caused his death is unclear, but it is thought the
infection had affected his brain and caused a fit. After his
death, Bulwer-Lytton suffered a decline in reputation and today,
despite his other still-popular quotes previously mentioned, is
best known for the "dark and stormy night" line and the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, to determine the "opening
sentence of the worst of all possible novels." Nevertheless,
Bulwer-Lytton was honoured with a burial in Westminster Abbey,
albeit against his wishes. His unfinished history Athens: Its Rise
and Fall was published posthumously. Born Edward George Earle
Lytton Bulwer-Lytton in London, England to General William Earle
Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth
Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth
House, Hertfordshire, he was immensely popular with the reading
public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a
considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great
unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the
pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the
threshold", and the well-known and much-parodied opening line
"It was a dark and stormy night". When King Otto of
Greece abdicated in 1862, Bulwer-Lytton was offered the crown of
Greece, which he declined. The English Rosicrucian society,
founded in 1867 by Robert Wentworth Little, claimed Bulwer-Lytton
as their 'Grand Patron', but he wrote to the society complaining
that he was 'extremely surprised' by their use of the title, as he
had 'never sanctioned such'. Nevertheless, a number of esoteric
groups have continued to claim Bulwer-Lytton as their own, chiefly
because some of his writings, such as the 1842 book Zanoni, have
included Rosicrucian and other esoteric notions, and because then
as now it was common for writers of esoteric lore to deny their
personal involvement in the subject. Lord Bulwer-Lytton's literary
works inspired more than one distinguished occultist in his
career. From the 1830's to 1880's, his works were read by several
generations of aspiring occultists. The most famous of these among
modern occultists was S. L. MacGregor Mathers, who is primarily
known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn, a ceremonial magic order of which offshoots still exist
today, whose reading of Lytton's Zanoni sparked his career in
esoteric and occult literature, and resulted in his being
nicknamed "Zan".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Alien
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Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Wendelle
Stevens, veteran US UFO researcher, specialising in contactee
research (d. September 7, 2010) is #born in Round Prairie,
Minnesota. Lt Col Wendelle C. Stevens enlisted in the U.S.
Military Service at an early age. He alternated his career between
pilot and Air Technical Service assignments with the Air Technical
Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright Field. In 1947 Stevens was
assigned from ATIC to Alaska where he first encountered stories of
real UFOs, and became interested in the subject. Mr. Stevens had
one of the largest collections of actual UFO photographs in
private hands in the world. He has been actively investigating UFO
contact cases since 1975 when his photo interests brought him into
investigating the famous Billy Meier contactee case in
Switzerland. Wendelle Stevens died at his home in Tucson, Arizona,
aged 87. He is buried at Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial
Cemetery in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Half
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Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 1968: #DOTD: #RIP: Bert
Wheeler, American comedian, comedy partner of Robert Woolsey who
together formed the double act Wheeler & Woolsey, the world's
most popular comedy duo of the movies in the early days of the
talkies (b. April 7, 1895) #dies of emphysema in New York City
aged 72. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, New
York. Albert Jerome "Bert" Wheeler was born in Paterson,
New Jersey on April 7, 1895. He worked with Robert Woolsey in
Broadway theatre, American comedy feature films, and vaudeville
acts until their film debut in 1929, Rio Rita, an RKO Radio
Pictures film of the play they starred in, established them in the
Hollywood film industry. Twenty-one of the twenty-two films
Wheeler made would be with his comedy partner, Woolsey. They
performed together until Robert Woolsey's death in 1938. Wheeler
became a member of The Lambs Club in 1927, a social club in New
York City for actors, songwriters, and others involved in the
theatre, America's oldest theatrical organization. In the early
days of the talkies, Wheeler & Woolsey were even more popular
than the Marx Brothers, and much in their films were copied in
later Marx Bros films (compare the end of W & W's April 1933
film Diplomanics to the end of The Marx Bros. November 1933 film
Duck Soup and it's evident that the script and setting are
indentical in places). They were on of RKO's most popular screen
attractions. Their films were filled with double-entendre gags,
although they were severely curtailed after the reconstitution of
the Production Code in 1934. Dressing in drag and other forms of
gender inversion were also staples of their films. In the early
1940s, after Robert Woolsey had died, Bert Wheeler struggled to
restart his career. Their friend and former film costar Dorothy
Lee agreed to tour with him in a vaudeville act. He also worked on
radio on programs starring Frank Sinatra. He continued to work off
and on through the 1960s. In 1950 he appeared with Jackie Gleason
on the early TV variety hour Cavalcade of Stars. His last
theatrical films were two slapstick short films for Columbia
Pictures, filmed in 1950 and produced by Jules White. He also kept
up a busy schedule of live performances in nightclubs and on the
legitimate stage, in such plays as Harvey (in the leading role of
Elwood P. Dowd) and Three Wishes for Jamie. In 1955 Wheeler
co-starred with Keith Larsen in the CBS western series Brave
Eagle; Wheeler played the "half-breed" Smokey Joe, known
for his tall tales and tribal wisdom, and likely the inspiration
both for the 1955 Coasters hit single "Smokey Joe's Cafe",
written by Lieber and Stoller, and Smokey Robinson's monniker,
bestowed on him by his uncle. Bert Wheeler died of emphysema in
New York City on January 18, 1968.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock &
Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: David
Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, founding member
of The Byrds, Crosby, Stills And Nash (CSN) and Crosby, Stills,
Nash And Young (CSNY), considered an emblematic figure of the
1960s counterculture (b. January 18, 2023) #dies at his home in
Santa Ynez, California from complications of COVID-19 at the age
of 81. Believing he was "probably going to die fairly soon",
Crosby had planned his funeral at least three years prior to his
death, to be held at his horse ranch in Santa Ynez, in hopes that
he would be reconciled with his former Byrds and CSN bandmates so
that they would attend. A statement from his family said that he
died "after a long illness". However, friends and
colleagues described his death as "sudden", saying that
Crosby had remained active until the day of his death, working on
plans for a tour and a new album. Rumors circulated that his death
was due to complications of COVID-19. On January 23, Stephen
Stills's ex-wife Veronique Sanson appeared on French television
and stated that Crosby had died in his sleep from complications of
COVID-19. "He was on his fifth day, went to take a nap, and
never woke up again." His remains were cremated, and his
ashes were sprinkiled at his Santa Ynez residence. Her son Chris
Stills was due to undertake a tour with Crosby in February. David
Crosby was born David Van Cortlandt Crosby in Los Angeles,
California, the second son of Academy Award-winning
cinematographer Floyd Crosby, who formerly worked on Wall Street,
and Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, a salesperson at Macy's
department store. His father was a relative of the Van Rensselaer
family of Dutch descent that was prominent during the 17th, 18th,
and 19th centuries in the area now known as the state of New York;
members of this family played a critical role in the formation of
the United States and served as leaders in business, politics and
society. David's mother was a granddaughter of the Episcopal
Bishop Of Pittsburgh Cortlandt Whitehead, descended from the
prominent Van Cortlandt family, an influential political dynasty
from the seventeenth-century Dutch origins of New York through its
period as an English colony, then after it became a state, and
into the nineteenth century. David's parents were regularly
featured in New York society pages before their wedding. Crosby's
older brother was musician Ethan Crosby, who inspired his early
love of jazz, particularly John Coltrane and Miles Davis; the
latter would later recommend that Columbia Records sign the Byrds,
and then cover the Crosby composition "Guinnevere."
David Crosbywrote or co-wrote "Lady Friend", "Why",
and "Eight Miles High" with the Byrds and "Guinnevere",
"Wooden Ships", "Shadow Captain", and "In
My Dreams" with Crosby, Stills and Nash. He wrote "Almost
Cut My Hair" and the title track "Deja Vu" for
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 album. He is known for his
use of alternate guitar tunings and jazz influences. Crosby has
been inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame twice: once for
his work in the Byrds and once for his work with CSN. Five albums
he contributed to are included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest
Albums of All Time, three with the Byrds and two with CSN(Y).
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: FM 1978
Michael Brandon Eileen Brennan Martin Mull DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Glenn
Frey, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, founding
member of the rock band Eagles, co-lead singer and frontman for
the band, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley,
with whom he wrote most of the Eagles' material. Frey played
guitar and keyboards as well as singing lead vocals on songs such
as "Take It Easy", "Peaceful Easy Feeling",
"Tequila Sunrise", "Already Gone", "James
Dean", "Lyin' Eyes", "New Kid in Town",
and "Heartache Tonight" (b. November 6, 1948) #dies at
Columbia University Irving Medical Center at the age of 67 from
complications of rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis
and pneumonia. His remains were cremated; the final disposition of
his ashes are unknown. Some medications for rheumatoid arthritis
or ulcerative colitis are immune suppressants and can compromise
the immune system's ability to fight off pneumonia. In January
2018, Frey's widow filed a suit against Mount Sinai Hospital and
gastroenterologist Steven Itzkowitz for the wrongful death of
Frey. Frey was publicly mourned by his friends, fellow musicians,
and bandmates, including Don Henley, Randy Meisner, J. D. Souther,
Jack Tempchin, Irving Azoff, Linda Ronstadt, Don Felder, and Bob
Seger. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the remaining members of
the Eagles and Jackson Browne performed "Take It Easy"
in his honor. A life-sized statue of Frey was unveiled at the
Standin' On The Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona, on September 24,
2016, to honor his songwriting contributions to "Take It
Easy", made famous by the Eagles as their first single in
1972. The road which runs next to the high school (now a middle
school) that he attended in Royal Oak, Michigan bears his name.
Glenn Frey was born Glenn Lewis Frey in Detroit, Michigan. During
the hiatus of the Eagles from 1980 to 1994, Frey embarked on a
successful solo career. He released his debut album, No Fun Aloud,
in 1982 and went on to record Top 40 hits "The One You Love",
"Smuggler's Blues", "Sexy Girl", "The
Heat Is On", "You Belong To The City", "True
Love", "Soul Searchin'" and "Livin' Right".
As a member of the Eagles, Frey won six Grammy Awards and five
American Music Awards. The Eagles were inducted into The Rock And
Roll Hall Of Fame in 1998, the first year they were nominated.
Consolidating his solo recordings and those with the Eagles, Frey
had 24 Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC
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Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Bobby
Goldsboro, American pop and country singer and songwriter, is
#born Robert Charles Goldsboro in Marianna, Florida. He had a
string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including
his signature No. 1 hit "Honey", which sold over 1
million copies in the United States, and the UK top-10 single
"Summer (The First Time)". During his first year of
life, his family moved 35 miles (56 km) north from Marianna to
Dothan, Alabama. He graduated from Dothan High School in 1959 and
later enrolled at Auburn University. Goldsboro left college after
his second year to pursue a musical career. He played guitar for
Roy Orbison from 1962 to 1964. Goldsboro's solo career started
with the top 10 hit "See the Funny Little Clown". The
single, written by Goldsboro, reached No. 9 on the U.S. national
charts in early 1964. It sold over 1 million copies and was
awarded a gold disc. It was to be the first of a string of similar
awards. Goldsboro had 11 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and
12 on the country chart. In 1966 he recorded "It's Too Late"
with "Too Many People" on the B-side. Although Goldsboro
was not a prolific performer of dance music, both of these songs
were huge hits on the Northern soul scene in Great Britain and
were played extensively. His biggest hit was 1968's "Honey",
a tearjerker about the death of a man's wife. The song, written by
Bobby Russell, was recorded in one take. It became the
largest-selling record in the world for 1968 and topped the Hot
100 for five weeks, reached number two in the UK Singles Chart on
two separate occasions (1968 and 1975), and was a number one
single in Australia. It also became his first country hit. One of
Goldsboro's compositions, "With Pen in Hand", was
recorded by several artists, including a Grammy-nominated pop
version by Vikki Carr that reached the Hot 100's top 40 in 1969;
Johnny Darrell had taken the song to No. 3 on the U.S. country
chart a year earlier. In 1970, Della Reese included a cover on her
album Black Is Beautiful. Goldsboro's "The Cowboy and the
Lady" became a top 10 country hit as "The Cowgirl and
the Dandy" for Brenda Lee in 1980; Dolly Parton covered it in
1977, and John Denver had a hit with the song in 1981. Goldsboro
reached No. 11 on Billboard's national charts with Mac Davis'
penned song "Watching Scotty Grow". "Summer (The
First Time)", a 1973 reminiscence about a 17-year-old boy's
first sexual experience (with a 31-year-old woman), was a Top 25
hit in the U.S. and reached number 9 in the UK. Using a repeating
piano riff, 12-string guitar, and an orchestral string
arrangement, the song was suggestive enough to spark some
controversy. The follow-up "Hello Summertime" was
written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway and hit No. 14 in the UK
in September 1974. From 1973 to 1975, Goldsboro hosted the
successful television series The Bobby Goldsboro Show. In the
1990s, he composed the music for the sitcom Evening Shade. In
1995, he created the children's television series The Swamp
Critters of Lost Lagoon. Goldsboro voiced all the characters,
wrote all the scripts, and played all the musical instruments.
Goldsboro is also an accomplished oil painter.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Stooge
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Today, January 18, 2026January 18, 1952: #DOTD: #RIP: Curly
Howard, American actor of Three Stooges fame (b. October 22, 1903)
#dies after a long series of strokes at Baldy View Sanitarium in
San Gabriel, California, having lived the shortest life of the
Stooges, dying at the age of 48. He was given a Jewish funeral and
was buried at the Western Jewish Institute section of Home of
Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles. His older brothers, Benjamin
and Shemp (who died three years later), and parents Jennie and
Solomon are all interred there as well. Jerome Lester Horwitz,
better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American
comedian and vaudevillian actor, born Yehudah Leib bar Shlomo
Natan HaLevi (Anglicized: Jerome Lester Horwitz) in the
Bensonhurst section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Of
Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, he was the youngest of the five sons
of Jennie (Gorovitz) and Solomon Horwitz. Because he was the
youngest, his brothers called him "Babe" to tease him.
He is best known as a member of the American farce comedy team,
the Three Stooges, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and
Shemp Howard and actor Larry Fine. Curly was generally considered
the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He was well
known for his high-pitched voice and vocal expressions
("nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!", "woob-woob-woob!",
"soitenly!" [certainly], and barking like a dog) as well
as his physical comedy (e.g., falling on ground and pivoting on
his shoulder as he "walked" in circular motion),
improvisations, and athleticism. An untrained actor, Curly
borrowed (and significantly exaggerated) the "woob woob"
from "nervous" and soft-spoken comedian Hugh Herbert.
Curly' unique version of "woob-woob-woob" was firmly
established by the time of the Stooges' second Columbia film,
Punch Drunks (1934). Curly was forced to leave the Three Stooges
act in 1946 when a massive stroke ended his showbusiness career.
He suffered through serious health problems and several more
strokes until his death.
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