January 18: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1886 - Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
2. 1896 - An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith.
3. 1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
4. 1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
5. 1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
6. 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw,Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
7. 1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
8. 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
9. 1993 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
10. 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
11. Famous Birthdays: Montesquieu (French philosopher), Daniel Hale Williams (American surgeon), A. A. Milne (English author), Ivan Petrovsky (Russian mathematician), Yoichiro Nambu (Japanese-American physicist Nobel Prize laureate)

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