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.
  • 474 –
    Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
  • 532 –
    Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
  • 1670 –
    Henry Morgan captures Panama.
  • 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”.
  • 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.
  • 1886 –
    Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
  • 1903 –
    President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
  • 1919 –
    World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
  • 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.
  • 1967 –
    Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • 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.
  • 1978 –
    The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
  • 2002 –
    Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
  • 2007 –
    The 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.
  • 2009 –
    Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

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