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

  • 350 –
    Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
  • 1670 –
    Henry Morgan captures Panama.
  • 1788 –
    The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
  • 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.
  • 1903 –
    President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
  • 1919 –
    Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
  • 1943 –
    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
  • 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.
  • 1945 –
    Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
  • 1955 –
    Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
  • 1958 –
    Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
  • 1967 –
    Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • 1969 –
    Brahma Baba, founder father of Brahma Kumaris left his mortal coil.
  • 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.
  • 1977 –
    Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 2009 –
    Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

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