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January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 347 days remaining (348 in
leap years ).
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 336 - Marcus elected Catholic Pope .
350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans , proclaims himself Emperor.
474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor
532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth , daughter of Edward IV .
1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden .
1535 - Lima , Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro .
1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama .
1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia .
1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands , which he names the "Sandwich Islands ."
1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay .
1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. marries Emma Hale .
1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina , Florida , Mississippi , and Alabama in secession from the United States .
1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War . The empire, to the Germans, was known as The Second Reich
1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK .
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England .
1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1903 - Theodore Roosevelt , the President of the United States, sends a message of greetings from a Marconi station built near Wellfleet, Massachusetts to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, marking the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1912 - British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen , the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
1913 - A 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.
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands " to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia .
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri .
1918 - World War I : Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.
1919 - World War I : The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles , France . Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1939 - Louis Armstrong records Jeepers Creepers .
1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising : The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto .
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong , Benny Goodman , Lionel Hampton , Artie Shaw , Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden .
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad , effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad .
1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army
1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1958 - Willie O'Ree , the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins .
1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City .
1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine 1967 - Albert DeSalvo , the "Boston Strangler ," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War .
1974 - The Six Million Dollar Man ABC .
1975 - The Jeffersons CBS .
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease .
1977 - Australia 's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville , Sydney killing 83.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland , but not guilty of torture .
1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds : "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
1990 - Washington, DC , Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states .
1994 - The Cando event , a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain . Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
1997 - In north west Rwanda , Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal : Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report .
2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth .
2001 - The British digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.
2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota , killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications .
2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 - A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.
2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill , caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe . Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon , England .
Births 885 - Daigo , Emperor of Japan (d. 930 )
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I) , Italian composer (d. 1588 )
1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois , French war minister (d. 1691 )
1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte , French writer (d. 1731 )
1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765 )
1689 - Montesquieu , French writer (d. 1755 )
1779 - Peter Roget , British lexicographer (d. 1869 )
1782 - Daniel Webster , American statesman (d. 1852 )
1813 - Joseph Glidden , American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906 )
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf , German biblical scholar (d. 1874 )
1840 - Henry Austin Dobson , English poet (d. 1921 )
1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier , French composer (d. 1894 )
1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames , Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911 )
1848 - Ioan Slavici , Transylvanian writer (d. 1925 )
1849 - Edmund Barton , 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920 )
1850 - Seth Low , American politician (d. 1916 )
1854 - Thomas Watson , American telephone pioneer (d. 1934 )
1877 - Samuel Zemurray , U.S. businessman (d.1961 )
1879 - Henri Giraud , French general (d. 1949 )
1881 - Gaston Gallimard , French publisher (d. 1975 )
1882 - A. A. Milne , English author (d. 1956 )
1886 - Clara Nordström , German writer and translator (d. 1962 )
1888 - Thomas Sopwith , British aviation pioneer (d. 1989 )
1892 - Oliver Hardy , American comedian and actor (d. 1957 )
1892 - Paul Rostock , German surgeon (d. 1956 )
1901 - Ivan Petrovsky , Russian mathematician (d. 1973 )
1904 - Cary Grant , English actor (d. 1986 )
1905 - Joseph Bonanno , Italian-born gangster (d. 2002 )
1908 - Jacob Bronowski , Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974 )
1910 - Kenneth E. Boulding , English economist (d. 1983 )
1913 - Danny Kaye , American actor (d. 1987 )
1914 - Arno Schmidt , German author (d. 1979 )
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis , Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984 )
1917 - Wang Yung-ching , Taiwanese businessman
1918 - Gustave Gingras , French Canadian physician (d. 1996 )
1922 - Bob Bell , American clown (d. 1997 )
1925 - Gilles Deleuze , French philosopher (d. 1995 )
1931 - Chun Doo-hwan , President of South Korea
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson , American author (d. 2007 )
1933 - John Boorman , Irish film director
1933 - Ray Dolby , American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system )
1934 - Raymond Briggs , English writer and illustrator
1935 - Albert Millaire , Quebec actor and theatre director
1935 - Jon Stallworthy , English poet
1937 - John Hume , Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
1938 - Curt Flood , baseball player (d. 1997 )
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez , Mexican racing driver (d. 1971 )
1941 - David Ruffin , American singer (d. 1991 )
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro , American country/pop singer
1943 - Kay Granger , American politician
1944 - Paul Keating , twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 - Carl Morton , Major League baseball pitcher (d. 1983 )
1945 - José Luis Perales , Spanish singer
1946 - Joseph Deiss , Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Takeshi Kitano , Japanese actor and director
1949 - Philippe Starck , French designer
1949 - Bill Keller , American newspaper editor
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian race car driver (d. 1982 )
1951 - Bob Latchford , English footballer
1951 - Bram Behr , Surinamese journalist (d. 1982 )
1952 - R. Stevie Moore , American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1953 - Brett Hudson , American actor
1955 - Kevin Costner , American actor
1955 - Fergus Martin , Irish artist
1956 - Sharon Mitchell , American porn actress
1956 - Tom Bailey , British singer (Thompson Twins )
1961 - Mark Messier , Canadian hockey player
1961 - Jeff Yagher , American actor
1962 - Alison Arngrim , American actress
1963 - Martin O'Malley , Governor of Maryland
1964 - Jane Horrocks , British actress
1965 - Dave Attell , American writer and comedian
1967 - Kim Perrot , American basketball player (d. 1999 )
1967 - Iván Zamorano , Chilean footballer
1968 - Frank Quitely , Scottish comic book artist
1969 - Jesse L. Martin , American actor and singer
1969 - David Bautista , American professional wrestler
1969 - Jim O'Rourke , American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco )
1970 - DJ Quik , American rapper
1970 - Peter van Petegem , Belgian cyclist
1971 - Jonathan Davis , American musician (KoЯn )
1971 - Christian Fittipaldi , Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Josep Guardiola , Spanish footballer
1972 - Mike Lieberthal , baseball player
1973 - Crispian Mills , British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker )
1974 - Michael Tunn , Australian television and radio
1974 - Maulik Pancholy , American actor
1974 - Christian Burns , English musician (BBMak )
1976 - Damien Leith , Australian Idol 2006
1977 - Curtis Cregan , American actor
1977 - Alina Jidkova , Russian tennis player
1978 - Brian Falkenborg , American baseball player
1979 - Jay Chou , Taiwanese singer and producer
1979 - Paulo Ferreira , Portuguese footballer
1979 - Brian Gionta , American ice hockey player
1980 - Robert Green , English footballer
1980 - Julius Peppers , American football player
1981 - Kang Dong-won , South Korean model and actor
1981 - Khari Stephenson , Jamaican soccer player
1982 - Quinn Allman , American musician (The Used )
1982 - Joanna Newsom , American harpist/singer-songwriter
1983 - Samantha Mumba , Irish singer and actress
1984 - Benji Schwimmer , American dancer
1984 - Maarja Kivi , Estonian singer
1987 - Johan Djourou , Swiss footballer
1993 - Morgan York , American actress
Deaths 52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)
350 - Constans , Roman Emperor , (b. 320 )
474 - Leo I , Byzantine Emperor (b. 401 )
1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320 )
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March , English politician (b. 1391 )
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419 )
1547 - Pietro Bembo , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470 )
1583 - Margaret of Austria , regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522 )
1664 - Moses Amyraut , French theologian (b. 1596 )
1677 - Jan van Riebeeck , Dutch merchant (b. 1619 )
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich , Russian poet (b. 1743 )
1862 - John Tyler , 10th President of the United States (b. 1790 )
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , English author (b. 1803 )
1878 - Antoine César Becquerel , French physicist (b. 1788 )
1892 - Anton Anderledy , Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819 )
1896 - Charles Floquet , French statesman (b. 1828 )
1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840 )
1936 - Rudyard Kipling , British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )
1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer , Polish writer (b. 1865 )
1952 - Curly Howard , American actor and comedian (b. 1903 )
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet , English actor (b. 1879 )
1963 - Hugh Gaitskell , leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906 )
1966 - Kathleen Norris , American writer (b. 1880 )
1967 - Goose Tatum , American basketball player (b. 1921 )
1969 - Hans Freyer , German sociologist (b. 1887 )
1970 - David O. McKay , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873 )
1978 - Hasan Askari , Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919 )
1978 - Carl Betz , English musician (b. 1921 )
1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton , English fashion designer (b. 1904 )
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis , Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915 )
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell , Irish actor (b. 1912 )
1995 - Adolf Butenandt , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903 )
1995 - Ron Luciano , baseball umpire (b. 1937 )
1997 - Paul Tsongas , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941 )
2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , Austrian architect (b. 1897 )
2001 - Al Waxman , Canadian actor (b. 1935 )
2003 - Edward Farhat , American professional wrestler (b. 1924 )
2005 - Lamont Bentley , American actor (b. 1973 )
2006 - Jan Twardowski , Polish poet (b. 1915 )
2007 - Brent Liles , American musician (Agent Orange /Social Distortion ) (b. 1963 )
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