Portal:South East England/On This Day/January 18


 * 1936: Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling died in Burwash, East Sussex.
 * 1996: Friends of the Earth, the Council for British Archaeology, Greenpeace UK, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Wildlife Trusts and the World Wide Fund for Nature all voiced disapproval of the Newbury bypass road scheme.