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January 18: The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins.

1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.

1778 – English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.

1871 – Unification of Germany: A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with King Wilhelm I of Prussia (pictured) being proclaimed as its first Emperor.

1977 – The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a novel bacterium now known as Legionella.

2003 – The 2003 Canberra bushfires: Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people, and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes.

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