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
- 350 –Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
- 1126 –Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1670 –Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 1701 –Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1788 –The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1866 –Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
- 1896 –The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1945 –Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
- 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 –Brahma Baba, founder father of Brahma Kumaris left his mortal coil.
- 1969 –United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
- 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.
- 1981 –Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
- 1997 –Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- 2000 –The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
- 2003 –A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- 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.
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