TODAY IN HISTORY
On Jan. 18, 1778, English navigator Captain James Cook reached the present-day Hawaiian Islands.
In 1913, entertainer Danny Kaye was born in New York City.
In 1943, during World War II, Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto launched their initial armed resistance against Nazi troops, who eventually succeeded in crushing the rebellion.
In 1975, the situation comedy “The Jeffersons,” a spin-off from “All in the Family,” premiered.
In 1991, financially strapped Eastern Airlines
shut down after more than six decades in business.
In 1993, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50 states for the first time.
President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL project, a Canadian company’s plan to build a 1,700-mile pipeline to carry oil across six U.S. states to Texas.