About January 18
January 18, 2025 is the 18th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 11 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 18
- 532 –Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 1701 –Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1778 –James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”.
- 1871 –Wilhelm 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.
- 1886 –Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- 1911 –Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- 1915 –Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1919 –Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- 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 is fought.
- 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.
- 1978 –The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1978 –The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
- 1997 –Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- 1997 –In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
- 2002 –Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
- 2003 –A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- 2005 –The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
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