Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 18, 2021

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 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II became sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.
 * 1486 – Elizabeth of York married King Henry VII, becoming queen consort of England.
 * 1788 – The armed tender HMS Supply (1759), the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
 * 1866 – Wesley College, one of the largest schools in Australia by enrolment, was established in Melbourne.
 * 1956 – Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the Fada'iyan-e Islam fundamentalist group, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
 * 1958 – Black Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey.
 * 1977 – The CDC announced that the lung infection Legionnaires' disease is caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.
 * 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
 * 1990 – In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
 * Born/died: | Tamar of Georgia |d|1213| Jobst of Moravia |b|1411| Aleksandra Ekster |b|1882| Elena Arizmendi Mejia |b|1884| Goose Tatum |d|1967| Bruce Chatwin |d|1989