From groundbreaking discoveries to tragic events: January 18 in history

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On January 18, significant events have taken place throughout history, from groundbreaking discoveries to tragic events. Find out what happened on this date in history in this captivating video. Perfect for history enthusiasts and curious minds:

1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America in Boston
1775 The West India Committee founded in London by London sugar merchants and Caribbean planters. Initially instrumental in promoting slavery, later aided campaign to end slavery.
1776 James Wright, Royal Governor of Georgia, is placed under house arrest by Major Joseph Habersham
1777 San Jose in California founded
1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1884 Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist (Welsh for Jesus Christ) Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom
1886 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England
1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
1896 First college basketball game with 5 players on each side is conducted by the University of Iowa; invites student athletes from University of Chicago for an experimental game; Chicago beats Iowa 15-12
1902 Despite reports that favor the US building a route through Nicaragua for a canal, a 'supplementary report' recommends the route through Panama
1903 The first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States is sent by a transmitter in Massachusetts
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1919 Bentley Motors Limited is founded by Walter Owen Bentley in London, England
1919 The Paris peace conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opens to draw up the treaties formally ending the Great War (WWI)
1951 1st use of lie detector in the Netherlands
1951 NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1964 Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1966 Robert C. Weaver, confirmed as 1st Black US presidential cabinet member (Housing and Urban Development - HUD)
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1975 "The Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1977 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.
1993 Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states of the USA for 1st time
1997 Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided
2005 The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France
2013 Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is indicted on corruption charges stemming from post-Hurricane Katrina business contracts and bribes
2016 World's 62 richest people are now as wealthy as half the world's population according to a report published by Oxfam
2018 First drone rescue of swimmers by lifeguards in New South Wales, Australia