Sunday, January 17, 2010

18 January

1899 - The first issue of the Philippine revolutionary newspaper "Kalayaan" (Freedom) issue comes out; authored by Katipunan founder Andres Bonifacio & Emilio Jacinto, et al., the second issue will never reach circulation because the printing press will be discovered by the Spanish colonial authorities.

1778 - The Hawaiian Islands first become known to the West when navigator Capt. James Cook 'discovers' it, naming it "Sandwich Islands."

1919 - The Paris Peace Conference begins in the French capital; it will officially signal the end of the First World War.

1975 - Former Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Garfield Todd and daughter Judith--two leading white advocates of the rule of majority blacks--are arrested in response to increasing public unrest.

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