About January 18
January 18, 2021 is the 18th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 25 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 18
- 474 –Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
- 1520 –King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1701 –Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1866 –Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1913 –A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- 1941 –World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
- 1944 –Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
- 1958 –Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
- 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.
- 1993 –Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
- 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
- 2009 –Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
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