Today in HistoryToday is Thursday, January 18, the 18th day of 2007. There are 347 days left in the year.

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In 1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the Sandwich Islands.

In 1943, the Soviet Union announced it had broken through the long Nazi siege of Leningrad (it was another year before the siege was fully lifted).

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.” — Sara Orne Jewett, American author (1849-1909).