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
- 474 –Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
- 1126 –Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
- 1486 –King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
- 1535 –Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1701 –Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1943 –Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1944 –Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
- 1944 –The 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.
- 1958 –Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
- 1960 –Capital 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.
- 1969 –United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
- 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.
- 1978 –The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
- 1983 –The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
- 2000 –The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
- 2002 –Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
- 2009 –Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
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