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
- 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.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 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.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1919 –Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- 1941 –World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1983 –The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
- 1997 –Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- 2003 –A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
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