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
- 350 –Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
- 532 –Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1591 –King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
- 1701 –Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1896 –The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
- 1915 –Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1916 –A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1955 –Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
- 1967 –Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1977 –Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.
- 1978 –The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
- 1994 –The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
- 1997 –In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
- 2009 –Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
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