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Historical Events

18 Jan 1126
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Qinzong
18 Jan 1307
German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf King of Bohemia
18 Jan 1478
Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
18 Jan 1520
Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
18 Jan 1562
The Council of Trent is reopened by Pope Pius IV for its third (and final) session
18 Jan 1591
King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day
18 Jan 1644
Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported Americas 1st UFO sighting
18 Jan 1701
Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte of Hanover crowned king and queen of Prussia
18 Jan 1776
James Wright Royal Governor of Georgia is placed under house arrest by Major Joseph Habersham
18 Jan 1788
First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
18 Jan 1795
French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
18 Jan 1795
Governor and Viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
18 Jan 1840
The Electro-Magnet and Mechanics Intelligencer 1st US electrical journal appears
18 Jan 1850
British blockade Piraeus Greece to enforce mercantile claims
18 Jan 1854
Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico
18 Jan 1869
Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco
18 Jan 1884
General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
18 Jan 1884
Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son Iesu Grist (Welsh for Jesus Christ) Price setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom
18 Jan 1886
Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England
18 Jan 1896
1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
18 Jan 1896
First college basketball game with 5 players on each side is conducted by the University of Iowa invites student athletes from University of Chicago for an experimental game Chicago beats Iowa 15-12
18 Jan 1900
Jan Blockxs Tl Uilenspiegel premieres in Brussels
18 Jan 1901
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
18 Jan 1902
Despite reports that favor the US building a route through Nicaragua for a canal a supplementary report recommends the route through Panama
18 Jan 1903
The first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States is sent by a transmitter in Massachusetts
18 Jan 1908
Frederick Delius Brigg Fair premieres in London
18 Jan 1911
1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
18 Jan 1915
Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico about 600 die
18 Jan 1915
Japan issues the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
18 Jan 1916
A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County Missouri
18 Jan 1919
The Paris peace conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opens to draw up the treaties formally ending the Great War (WWI)
18 Jan 1921
William Archers Green Goddess premieres in NYC
18 Jan 1922
Irish author Liam OFlaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
18 Jan 1923
1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
18 Jan 1929
NY Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
18 Jan 1930
-27F (-33C) Watts Oklahoma (state record)
18 Jan 1933
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico established
18 Jan 1934
Eugene ONeills Days Without End premieres in NYC
18 Jan 1938
Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
18 Jan 1941
World War II A counter-offensive is launched by the British against the Italians in East Africa
18 Jan 1943
US rations bread & metal - banning presliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts
18 Jan 1944
1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
18 Jan 1945
Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakow Poland and push Germans out only to eventually occupy entire country
18 Jan 1947
Red Mill closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
18 Jan 1947
Small river steamer sinks on Yangtze River kills 400
18 Jan 1948
1st courses begin at University of Ibadan Nigeria
18 Jan 1948
Ted Macks Original Amateur Hour begins DuMont (later NBCABCCBS)
18 Jan 1949
They Stand Accused courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
18 Jan 1949
1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
18 Jan 1950
Christopher Frys Venus Observed premieres in London
18 Jan 1950
Indians pitcher Bob Feller after 15-14 season takes 20000 salary cut to 45000 pay cut is Fellers own suggestion
18 Jan 1951
Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to hate campaign against GDR
18 Jan 1951
NFL rules tackles guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
18 Jan 1951
NFL Draft Kyle Rote from SMU first pick by New York Giants
18 Jan 1951
Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts killing 2942 people
18 Jan 1955
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Peoples Liberation Army
18 Jan 1955
5th NBA All-Star Game Madison Square Garden NYC Eastern Conference beats Western Conference 100-91 MVP Bill Sharman Boston Celtics G
18 Jan 1956
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) forms own army (National Peoples Army)
18 Jan 1957
3 B-52s set record for around-the-world flight 45 hr 19 min
18 Jan 1958
Willie ORee becomes the first African Canadian to play in the NHL (makes debut for Boston Bruins)
18 Jan 1958
Rookie left wing Willie ORee makes his debut for the Boston Bruins in a 3-0 victory in Montreal ORee is the first African-American to appear in in the NHL
18 Jan 1960
Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia killing all 50 people on-board
18 Jan 1961
Zanzibars Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
18 Jan 1962
Southern University closed due to demonstrations
18 Jan 1962
US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
18 Jan 1963
Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (1059)
18 Jan 1964
The Beatles make their first appearance on US Billboard Chart with single I Want to Hold Your Hand at 45
18 Jan 1965
H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
18 Jan 1966
Robert C Weaver confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
18 Jan 1967
Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
18 Jan 1968
Happy Time opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
18 Jan 1968
Hester & Appolinars musical Your Own Thing premieres in NYC
18 Jan 1969
Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
18 Jan 1969
United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 38 people on-board
18 Jan 1970
Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
18 Jan 1971
Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in New York to become WWF champ
18 Jan 1971
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling
18 Jan 1972
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner bans all parades and marches in Northern Ireland until the end of the year
18 Jan 1972
Garfield Todd former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and his daughter Judith supporters of black majority rule in the country are arrested
18 Jan 1973
Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
18 Jan 1973
Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak
18 Jan 1974
6 Million Man starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
18 Jan 1975
Jeffersons spinoff from All in the Family premieres on CBS
18 Jan 1976
Super Bowl X Miami Orange Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 MVP Lynn Swann Pittsburgh WR
18 Jan 1977
Pakistan cricket all-rounder Imran Khan takes 6 for 63 in the Australian 2nd innings for a match total of 12 to lead his side to an easy 8 wicket 3rd Test win in Sydney
18 Jan 1977
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires disease.
18 Jan 1977
Australias worst rail disaster occurs in Sydney killing 83 people
18 Jan 1978
Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time v Pakistan at Karachi
18 Jan 1978
Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford Connecticut collapses (no injuries)
18 Jan 1978
Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttles SRB
18 Jan 1979
Peter Jenkins finishes A Walk Across America at Florence Oregon
18 Jan 1980
Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion & fined 20000
18 Jan 1981
Iran accepts US offer of 7.9 billion in frozen assets
18 Jan 1981
Punk singer Wendy O. Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity (later cleared)
18 Jan 1981
Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield become the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories (buildings cliffs bridges antennae) after parachuting off a Houston skyscraper
18 Jan 1983
Dick Motta becomes the 5th NBA coach to record 600 wins as his Dallas Mavericks defeat the Golden State Warriors 112-102 in Oakland
18 Jan 1984
80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
18 Jan 1985
US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
18 Jan 1986
24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
18 Jan 1986
AIDS charity record Thats What Friends are For hits 1
18 Jan 1986
NY Lotto pays 30.5 million to one winner (s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
18 Jan 1987
3rd Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
18 Jan 1988
Airliner crashes in SW China killing all 108 on board
18 Jan 1989
Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
18 Jan 1989
West Indies beat Australia in a rain-affected 3rd final in Sydney to win crickets World Series Cup Tri-Series 2-1 match reduced to 18 overs
18 Jan 1990
South Africa says it is reconsidering ban on African National Congress
18 Jan 1990
Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
18 Jan 1991
Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years citing financial problems.
18 Jan 1992
Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
18 Jan 1993
West Indies beat Australia 2-0 win crickets World Series Cup
18 Jan 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.
18 Jan 1995
Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
18 Jan 1996
Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
18 Jan 1997
47th NHL All-Star Game San Jose Arena Eastern Conference beats Western Conference 11-7 Mark Recchi Montreal RW
18 Jan 1997
In north west Rwanda Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
18 Jan 1997
Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
18 Jan 1998
48th NHL All-Star Game General Motors Place Vancouver North America beats World 8-7 MVP Teemu Selanne Anaheim RW
18 Jan 1998
ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
18 Jan 2001
New Yorks Mike Richter picks up his 267th career NHL win to become the winningest goaltender in team history passes Ed Giacomin Rangers beat the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 in overtime
18 Jan 2003
A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra Australia.
18 Jan 2004
AFC Championship Gillette Stadium Foxborough New England Patriots beat Indianapolis Colts 24-14
18 Jan 2004
NFC Championship Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia Carolina Panthers beat Philadelphia Eagles 14-3
18 Jan 2005
The worlds largest commercial jet the Airbus A380 is unveiled in France
18 Jan 2007
Hurricane Kyrill kills at least 44 in Western Europe strongest British storm in 17 years kills 14 people worst German storm since 1999 with 13 deaths and causes container Ship MSC Napoli to be destroyed off coast of Devon
18 Jan 2009
AFC Championship Heinz Field Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steelers beat Baltimore Ravens 23-14
18 Jan 2009
NFC Championship University of Phoenix Stadium Arizona Cardinals beat Philadelphia Eagles 32-25
18 Jan 2012
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
18 Jan 2015
AB de Villiers makes the fastest century in ODI cricket history from 31 balls against the West Indies
18 Jan 2015
AFC Championship Gillette Stadium Foxborough New England Patriots beat Indianapolis Colts 45-7
18 Jan 2015
NFC Championship CenturyLink Field Seattle Seattle Seahawks beat Green Bay Packers 28-22 (OT)
18 Jan 2016
Worlds 62 richest people are now as wealthy as half the worlds population according to a report published by Oxfam
18 Jan 2017
NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014
18 Jan 2018
First drone rescue of swimmers by lifeguards in New South Wales Australia
18 Jan 2018
Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira rides the largest-ever wave by a female surfer at 20.72 m (68 ft) at Praia do Norte in Nazarin Portugal
18 Jan 1958
Willie ORee is the 1st African-American to appear in the NHL making his debut for the Boston Bruins in a 3-0 victory in Montreal
18 Jan 1976
Super Bowl X Miami Orange Bowl Miami FL Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 MVP Lynn Swann Pittsburgh WR
18 Jan 1997
47th NHL All-Star Game San Jose Arena San Jose CA East beats West 11-7 Mark Recchi Montreal RW
18 Jan 1998
48th NHL All-Star Game General Motors Place Vancouver BC North America beats World 8-7 MVP Teemu Selanne Anaheim RW
18 Jan 1919
Bentley Motors Limited is founded by Walter Owen Bentley in London England
18 Jan 2020
Premiership Rugby announces reigning European and English champions Saracens to be relegated for exceeding salary cap the previous 3 seasons club fined 5.3m and docked 35 Premiership points
18 Jan 1650
French General Louis II of Cond arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes
18 Jan 1884
General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum Sudan
18 Jan 1945
Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakow Poland to push Germans out only to eventually occupy entire country
18 Jan 1962
Southern University Baton Rouge closed due to demonstrations
18 Jan 1966
Robert C. Weaver confirmed as 1st Black US presidential cabinet member (Housing and Urban Development - HUD)
18 Jan 1971
Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in New York to become WWWF champ
18 Jan 1975
The Jeffersons spinoff from All in the Family premieres on CBS
18 Jan 1983
Dick Motta becomes the 5th NBA coach to record 600 wins as his Dallas Mavericks defeat the Golden State Warriors 112-102 in Oakland California
18 Jan 1258
Mongol army of 150000 led by Hulagu grandson of Genghis Khan arrives at the walls of Baghdad (city falls Feb 13)
18 Jan 1775
The West India Committee founded in London by London sugar merchants and Caribbean planters. Initially instrumental in promoting slavery later aided campaign to end slavery. [1]
18 Jan 1998
48th NHL All-Star Game General Motors Place Vancouver BC North America beats World 8-7 MVP Teemu Selnne Anaheim RW
18 Jan 1998
Stephen Flaherty Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNallys musical Ragtime opens at Ford Theater NYC runs for 834 performances
18 Jan 2015
South African batsman AB de Villiers makes fastest century in ODI cricket history from 31 balls during an innings of 149 against the West Indies in Johannesburg
18 Jan 1307
German king Albert I makes his son Rudolf II King of Bohemia
18 Jan 1562
3rd sitting of Council of Trent opens convened by Pope Pius IV
18 Jan 1921
William Archers play Green Goddess premieres in NYC
18 Jan 1942
Nazis arrests Dutch journalist Frans Goedhart who later escapes and Wiardi Beckman who dies at Dachau concentration camp
18 Jan 1948
TV talent show The Original Amateur Hour hosted by Ted Mack premieres on the DuMont Television Network
18 Jan 1980
Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager receive sentence of 3 years in prison and fined 20000 for tax evasion
18 Jan 1621
Ceremony held to name the Dutch base of Batavia in the East Indies (modern Jakarta)
18 Jan 1795
French forces admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
18 Jan 1945
Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakw Poland to push Germans out only to eventually occupy entire country
18 Jan 1973
NHL New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak
18 Jan 1973
Orlando Cepeda is 1st player signed as MLB designated hitter by Boston Red Sox
18 Jan 1997
In northwest Rwanda Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
18 Jan 2000
Fragments from the Tagish Lake meteorite fall to Earth in northwestern British Columbia
18 Jan 2021
Brazil begins vaccinations for COVID-19 with the worlds second-highest death toll at 209000
18 Jan 2022
Boston Bruins retire Willie ORees 22 jersey on the 64th anniversary of his becoming the NHLs first Black player [1]
18 Jan 2022
France records a record 464769 new COVID-19 cases with other European countries also registering record numbers amid Omicrons spread [1]
18 Jan 2022
Indonesias parliament approves bill to relocate its capital to Borneo and announces new citys name will be Nusantara (meaning archipelago) [1]
18 Jan 2022
Microsoft says it is buying Activision Blizzard publisher of online games Call of Duty World of Warcraft and Candy Crush for 70 billion - biggest-ever gaming and tech takeover [1]
18 Jan 2023
A series of atmospheric river storms pummelling California finally subside after more than 500 mudslides with extensive damage to 40 out of 58 counties killing 20 people [1]
18 Jan 2024
NASAs trail-blazing Ingenuity helicopter the first aircraft to fly on another world dies after three years on Mars and 72 flights (only expected to make five flights) [1]
18 Jan 2024
US city of Lexington starts a new tourism campaign aimed at extraterrestrial travelers by beaming a welcome message into space via an infrared laser [1]
18 Jan 1478
Grand Duke Ivan III of Moscow occupies Novgorod
18 Jan 1644
Perplexed pilgrims in Boston report Americas first UFO sighting
18 Jan 1733
First polar bear exhibited in America in Boston
18 Jan 1788
First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay to establish a penal colony
18 Jan 1840
The Electro-Magnet and Mechanics Intelligencer the first US electrical journal appears
18 Jan 1884
British General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum Sudan
18 Jan 1896
First demonstration of an X-ray machine in the US (New York City)
18 Jan 1947
Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for 25-35000)
18 Jan 1950
Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller after 15-14 season takes 20000 salary cut to 45000 pay cut is Fellers own suggestion
18 Jan 1963
Al Davis becomes the head coach and general manager of the Oakland Raiders
18 Jan 1974
Science fiction TV series The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC starring Lee Majors
18 Jan 1980
Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager receive sentence of 3 years in prison and fined 20000 for tax evasion
18 Jan 1989
Astronomers discover a pulsar in the remnants of Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud
18 Jan 1998
ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando Florida
18 Jan 1998
Larry Bird returns to Boston as head coach of the Indiana Pacers for the first time as former Celtics center Robert Parish is honored by having his No. 00 raised to the Fleet Center rafters
18 Jan 2001
New York Rangers Mike Richter picks up his 267th career NHL win to become the winningest goaltender in team history passing Eddie Giacomin 2-1 in overtime against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs
18 Jan 2004
Television drama The L Word co-created by Ilene Chaiken starring Jennifer Beals and Katherine Moennig premieres on Showtime
18 Jan 2013
Former Incubus singer Brandon Boyd announces his new band Sons of the Sea
18 Jan 2014
20th Screen Actors Guild Awards Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win
18 Jan 2016
Worlds 62 richest people are now as wealthy as the poorest half of the worlds population according to a report published by Oxfam
18 Jan 2022
Microsoft announces it is buying Activision Blizzard publisher of online games Call of Duty World of Warcraft and Candy Crush for 70 billion the biggest-ever gaming and tech takeover [1]