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On this day in . . .

• 1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich Islands"

• 1803, Thomas Jefferson requests funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition. Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost closer to $50,000

• 1896, the X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time

• 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States

• 1911, Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship

• 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. (Scott and his party perished during the return trip.)

• 1915, Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia

• 1919, during World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France

• 1943, during World War II, the Soviets announced they'd broken through the long Nazi siege of Leningrad (it was another year before the siege was fully lifted). ALSO: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. AND: A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the U.S. -- aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement parts -- went into effect

• 1944, Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad

• 1949, Charles Ponzi, engineer of one of the most spectacular swindles in history, died destitute in the charity ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at age 66

• 1950, People's Republic of China formally recognizes the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam and agrees to furnish it military assistance; the Soviet Union extended diplomatic recognition to Hanoi on January 30. China and the Soviet Union provided massive military and economic aid to North Vietnam, which enabled North Vietnam to fight first the French and then the Americans

• 1974, a Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War

• 1990, Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. ALSO: A jury in Los Angeles acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges

• 1993, for the first time, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed in all 50 states

• 1994, The Cando Event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute

• 1998, Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report

• 2002, two Israeli tanks and an armored personnel carrier parked outside the headquarters of Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, confining the terrorist to his office complex a day after a Palestinian gunman burst into a banquet hall and gunned down six Israelis

• 2010, Mehmet Ali Agca, trained by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 and was later forgiven by the pontiff, was released from a Turkish prison

• 2011, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" detonated his explosives-laden vest among a group of police recruits in Tikrit, Iraq, killing at least 60 people and wounding 150 others

• 2013, Algerian forces freed more than 600 hostages held by Islamic terrorists at a gas plant in In Amenas

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