About January 18
January 18, 2024 is the 18th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 348 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 23 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 18
- 532 –Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 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.
- 1884 –Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1919 –Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- 1919 –World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 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.
- 1969 –Brahma Baba, founder father of Brahma Kumaris left his mortal coil.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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