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Siege of Leningrad ended on this day

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Sat, 18 Jan 2003

1778: Captain Cook discovered Hawaii.

1788: A penal settlement was established in Botany Bay, Australia.

1879: The first England-Wales football international was played at Kennington Oval in London, England winning 2-1.

1882: AA Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, was born in St John's Wood, London.

1911: US pilot Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss aircraft, made the first landing on the deck of a ship - the cruiser Pennsylvania moored in San Francisco Bay.

1912: British explorer Captain Scott reached the South Pole - only to find the Norwegian Amundsen had arrived 35 days earlier.

1933: The "bodyline bowling" row flared up in an Australian v England Test match in Adelaide.

1944: The 900-day siege of Leningrad ended.

1977: In the worst rail disaster in Australian history, 82 people died when a Sydney-bound train was derailed.

1989: Knuckledusters, hand claws and other offensive weapons were officially banned by the Home Office.

1992: Faced with a new outbreak of terrorism, the Government decided to send more troops to Northern Ireland.

Story filed: 07:11 Saturday 18th January 2003

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