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Location: Maryland
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January 18th
1535 ~ Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1779 ~ Birthday of Peter Roget, Lexicographer.
1882 ~ Birthday of A. A. Milne, Author.
1892 ~ Birthday of Oliver Hardy, Comedian & Actor.
1936 ~ Death of Rudyard Kipling, Writer & Poet
1944 ~ The New York Met hosted its first jazz concert.Among the performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and Artie Shaw.
1944 ~ Birthday of Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia.
1967 ~ The “Boston Strangler” was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses.
1990 ~ Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession.
1991 ~ Iraq attacked Tel Aviv and Haifa with Scud missiles.
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