What happened on January 18? There are more than 288 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 18
January 18 is the 18th day of the year 2024. There are 348 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 3rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Florence, Oregon 97439 sunrise occured at 07:44 AM and sunset occured at 05:08 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 23 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 18
- 350Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
- 474Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
- 532Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 1126Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
- 1486King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
- 1520King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
- 1535Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1562Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1591King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
- 1670Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 1701Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1778James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”.
- 1788The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1866Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
- 1871Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
- 1884Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 1886Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- 1896The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
- 1903President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
- 1911Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- 1913A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- 1915Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1916A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
- 1919Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1919Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- 1919World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 1941World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
- 1943Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1944Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
- 1944The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
- 1945Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
- 1955Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
- 1958Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
- 1960Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
- 1967Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1969Brahma Baba, founder father of Brahma Kumaris left his mortal coil.
- 1969United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
- 1974A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
- 1977Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- 1977Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.
- 1978The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1978The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
- 1981Phil 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).
- 1983The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
- 1990Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 1993Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
- 1994The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
- 1997Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- 1997In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
- 2000The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
- 2002Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
- 2003A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- 2005The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
- 2007The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
- 2009Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
Who Were Born On January 18?
- 885Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
- 1519Isabella Jagiełło, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
- 1543(baptised) Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Italian composer (d. 1588)
- 1641François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
- 1659Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher (d. 1708)
- 1672Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
- 1688Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
- 1689Montesquieu, French satirist and philosopher (d. 1755)
- 1743Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
- 1779Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
- 1782Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
- 1795Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865)
- 1813Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
- 1815Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
- 1840Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
- 1841Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
- 1842A. A. Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
- 1848Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
- 1849Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
- 1850Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
- 1853Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900)
- 1854Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
- 1856Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931)
- 1867Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
- 1877Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d. 1961)
- 1879Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
- 1879Tane Ikai, Japanese supercentenarian. (d. 1995)
- 1880Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist (d. 1933)
- 1881Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
- 1882A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
- 1886Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
- 1888Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
- 1892Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
- 1892Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
- 1896C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
- 1901Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
- 1904Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
- 1904Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
- 1905Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
- 1908Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
- 1908Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
- 1910Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1993)
- 1911José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969).
- 1913Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1913Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and musician (d. 1972)
- 1914Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
- 1914Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (d. 1987)
- 1915Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
- 1917Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2008)
- 1918Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
- 1921Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- 1922Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
- 1925Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
- 1927Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
- 1931Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
- 1932Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
- 1933John Boorman, Irish film director
- 1933Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
- 1934Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
- 1935Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
- 1935Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
- 1935Jon Stallworthy, English poet
- 1937Dick Durock, American actor d.2009
- 1937John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
- 1938Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
- 1938Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1940Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
- 1941Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
- 1941David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
- 1941Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
- 1943Kay Granger, American politician
- 1943Paul Freeman, British actor
- 1944Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
- 1944Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1945José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
- 1946Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1947Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player
- 1947Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
- 1949Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
- 1949Philippe Starck, French designer
- 1950Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
- 1951Bob Latchford, English footballer
- 1951Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
- 1952Michael Angelis, British actor
- 1952Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design
- 1952R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
- 1953Brett Hudson, American musician
- 1954Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler
- 1955Fergus Martin, Irish artist
- 1955Kevin Costner, American actor
- 1956Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress
- 1961Bobby Hansen, American basketball player
- 1961Jeff Yagher, American actor
- 1961Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961Peter Beardsley, English footballer
- 1962Alison Arngrim, American actress
- 1962David O'Connor, American equestrian rider
- 1963Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
- 1963Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician
- 1963Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter
- 1964Andrea Leand, American tennis player
- 1964Brady Anderson, American baseball player
- 1964Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor
- 1964Jane Horrocks, British actress
- 1965Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
- 1966Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
- 1966André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
- 1967Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
- 1967Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
- 1968Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
- 1969Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
- 1969Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
- 1969Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
- 1969John Eder, American politician
- 1970DJ Quik, American rapper
- 1970Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
- 1971Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
- 1971Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician
- 1971Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoЯn)
- 1971Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
- 1971Seamus O'Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist
- 1972Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
- 1972Vinod Kambli, Indian cricket player
- 1973Anthony Koutoufides, Australian rules footballer and Gladiator
- 1973Ben Jealous, African-American leader, president of the NAACP
- 1973Burnie Burns, director, voice actor, producer, screenwriter, co-founder of Rooster Teeth Productions
- 1973Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
- 1974Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
- 1974Devon Odessa, American actress
- 1974Maulik Pancholy, American actor
- 1974Michael Tunn, Australian television presenter and radio announcer
- 1974Princess Claire of Belgium
- 1976Damien Leith, Irish-born Australian singer, winner of Australian Idol 2006
- 1976Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player
- 1976Subhrajit Mitra, Indian filmmaker
- 1977Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
- 1977Curtis Cregan, American actor
- 1977Richard Archer, British singer (lead singer of Hard-Fi)
- 1977Richard Wall, Irish actor
- 1978Bogdan Lobont, Romanian football player
- 1978Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
- 1978Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
- 1979Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
- 1979Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, producer, actor and director
- 1979Kenyatta Jones, American football player
- 1979Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
- 1979Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
- 1980Estelle Swaray, English singer
- 1980Jason Segel, American actor
- 1980Julius Peppers, American football player
- 1980Robert Green, English footballer
- 1981Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
- 1981Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
- 1981Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
- 1982Joanna Newsom, American harpist
- 1982Quinn Allman, American Guitarist, The Used
- 1983Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
- 1984Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
- 1984Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer
- 1984Kristy Lee Cook, American singer
- 1984Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
- 1984Michael Kearney, American child prodigy
- 1984Seung-Hui Cho, American spree killer (d. 2007)
- 1985Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier
- 1985Minissha Lamba, Indian actress and model
- 1985Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
- 1986Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer
- 1986Marya Roxx, Estonian singer
- 1987Christopher Liebig, German rugby player
- 1987Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
- 1988Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
- 1988Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter
- 1991Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
- 1993Morgan York, American actress
- 1994Gong Min-ji, South Korean pop singer, rapper, and dancer of 2NE1
- 1994Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer
- 1999Karan Brar, American actor
Who Died On January 18?
- 52 BCPublius Clodius Pulcher (b. 93 BC)
- 474Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
- 1213Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)
- 1367King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
- 1425Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
- 1471Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
- 1586Margaret of Parma, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
- 1677Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
- 1803Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- 1862John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
- 1873Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
- 1878Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
- 1886Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
- 1892Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious figure (b. 1819)
- 1896Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
- 1923Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
- 1936Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
- 1940Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
- 1951Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
- 1952Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
- 1954Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
- 1963Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (b. 1906)
- 1966Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
- 1967Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
- 1969Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
- 1970David O. McKay, American religious figure (b. 1873)
- 1971Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
- 1975Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1978Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
- 1978Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and writer (b. 1919)
- 1978Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective (b. 1890)
- 1980Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
- 1984Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
- 1985Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
- 1989Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
- 1990Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
- 1993Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (b. 1906)
- 1995Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1995Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
- 1996Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (b. 1923)
- 1997Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2000Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
- 2001Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
- 2003Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
- 2003Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
- 2005Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
- 2006Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
- 2007Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
- 2008Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
- 2008Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
- 2008John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2009Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
- 2009Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
- 2009Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (b. 1931)
- 2009Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
- 2011Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)
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