What are the important events that happened on January 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 18 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 5, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,737,158,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octadecagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,411 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 18 Historical Events
- 1535 –Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1788 –The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
- 1919 –Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1919 –World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 1978 –The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1978 –The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
- 1983 –The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
- 2000 –The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
- 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.
Who were born on January 18?
- 1519 –Isabella Jagiełło, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
- 1743 –Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
- 1842 –A. A. Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
- 1913 –Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1938 –Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1951 –Bob Latchford, English footballer
- 1953 –Brett Hudson, American musician
- 1974 –Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
- 1984 –Kristy Lee Cook, American singer
- 1987 –Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
Who died on January 18?
- 1896 –Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
- 1936 –Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
- 1951 –Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
- 1970 –David O. McKay, American religious figure (b. 1873)
- 1971 –Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
- 1975 –Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1980 –Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
- 1997 –Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2000 –Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
- 2009 –Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (b. 1931)
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