About January 18
January 18, 2022 is the 18th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 14 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.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1701 –Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1778 –James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1915 –Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1944 –Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1976 –Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
- 1990 –Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 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.
- 2005 –The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
- 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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