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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1896 –
    The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
  • 1903 –
    President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
  • 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.
  • 1915 –
    Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • 1919 –
    Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
  • 1943 –
    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
  • 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.
  • 1955 –
    Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
  • 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.
  • 1977 –
    Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
  • 1993 –
    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
  • 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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