Today's Highlight in History:
On January 18th, 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition远征，探险队 reached the South Pole, only to不料 discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. (Scott and his party perished枯萎，死亡 during the return trip.)

On this date:
In 1788, the first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal¹ colony流放地.

In 1862, the tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Virginia, at age 71.

In 1919, the World War One Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France.

In 1936, author Rudyard Kipling died in Burwash, England.

In 1943, during World War Two, the Soviets² announced they'd broken the long Nazi³ siege围攻，包围 of Leningrad列宁格勒.

In 1967, Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of armed robbery持械抢劫, assault and sex offenses⁴. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed by a fellow inmate囚犯 in 1973.)

In 1970, Mormon president David McKay died at the age of 96.

In 1975, the situation comedy系列幽默剧 "The Jeffersons," a spin-off from "All in the Family," premiered on CBS TV.

In 1991, financially strapped⁶ Eastern Airlines shut down after 62 years in business.

In 1996, Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson filed for提出，申请 divorce from Michael Jackson.

Ten years ago: A jury in Los Angeles acquitted无罪开释 former preschool幼儿园 operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation⁸干扰，妨害 charges. Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in an FBI sting on drug-possession charges (he was later convicted of a misdemeanor轻罪，品行不端).

Five years ago: The death toll死亡人数 continued to climb in Kobe, Japan, where a major earthquake had claimed more than six-thousand lives. South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet denied amnesty大赦，特赦 sought by 3500 police officers in apartheid种族隔离's waning逐渐减弱或变小的 days.

One year ago: Defying藐视，挑衅 global outrage¹¹暴行，侮辱 over the massacre¹²大屠杀 of 45 ethnic¹³ Albanian civilians¹⁴ in Kosovo, Serb forces pounded villages with artillery¹⁵大炮. The Yugoslav government also ordered the American head of the Kosovo peace mission to leave the country and barred a UN investigator¹⁶ looking into the massacre.