January 18

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1778	James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".	Braid	Brass Knuckle Sandwich	Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five
2	1788	The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.	The Shins	Australia	Wincing the Night Away
3	1884	Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.	Japandroids	Young Hearts Spark Fire	Post-Nothing
4	1903	President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Are You Ready Eddy?	Tarkus
5	1911	Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.	Denali	Where I Landed	Denali
6	1943	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.	Joy Division	Warsaw	Heart and Soul
7	1977	Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.	The Decemberists	The Legionnaire's Lament	Castaways and Cutouts
8	1981	Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).	The Rentals	Jumping Around	Seven More Minutes
9	1997	Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.	Truth	More Dangerous	Puppets

(Historical facts about January 18 are from Wikipedia.)