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January 18

3 sourced moments from January 18 in history: Cook reached Hawaii in 1778, centuries after Polynesians; First aircraft landing on a ship (1911); and The Paris Peace Conference met in Paris, not Versailles (1919).

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3 things happened on January 18

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1919 History · War & Conflict

The Paris Peace Conference met in Paris, not Versailles

The 1919 conference opened at the French foreign ministry on 18 January — a date Poincaré used to needle Germany, which wasn't invited.

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1911 Technology · Transportation

First aircraft landing on a ship

A daredevil pilot, a wooden platform of sandbags and ropes, and the unlikely birth of naval aviation.

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1778 History · Modern

Cook reached Hawaii in 1778, centuries after Polynesians

Cook's crew sighted Oahu on 18 January 1778 and landed on Kauai two days later — some six to eight centuries after Polynesian voyagers settled the islands.

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