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.
- 1486 –King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
- 1562 –Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1670 –Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1919 –World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 1944 –Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
- 1955 –Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
- 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.
- 1977 –Australia’s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- 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).
- 1983 –The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
- 1990 –Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 2002 –Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
- 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
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