1.18.13 Mornin' OT - Happy Darvish Day!

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1.18.13 Mornin' OT - Happy Darvish Day!

By Samuel_L_Bronkowitz  @IrishP1 on Jan 18 2013, 6:42a 1020

1778	English navigator Captain James Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands.
1782	Lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, N.H.
1788	The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.
1862	John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71.
1871	William I of Prussia was proclaimed German emperor in Versailles, France.
1892	Oliver Hardy of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Ga.
1904	Actor Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England.
1911	The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
1943	The Soviets announced that they had broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad.
1990	Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1991	Financially strapped Eastern Airlines shut down after more than six decades in business.
1993	The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50 states for the first time.
2005	The world's largest commercial jet, an Airbus A380 that can carry 800 passengers, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.
2013	The first director of the Peace Corps, R. Sargent Shriver, died at age 95.

And in 2012, on this very fateful day..... The Rangers sign Japanese P Yu Darvish to a 6-year, $60 million deal. Combined with the record $51.7 million posting fee, Texas will shell almost $112 million to secure the services of Darvish.