Notable Historical Events on January 18th
January 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
336 |
St Mark elected Catholic Pope |
474 |
Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor. |
532 |
Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die |
1126 |
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. |
1307 |
German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia |
1478 |
Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod |
1520 |
Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde |
1535 |
Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima, Peru |
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. |
1644 |
Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting |
1650 |
French Prince Louis II of Condé captured |
1671 |
Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama |
1691 |
English king Willem III travels to The Hague |
1701 |
Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia |
1733 |
1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) |
1776 |
James Wright, Royal Governor of Georgia, is placed under house arrest by Major Joseph Habersham |
1777 |
San Jose California, founded |
1778 |
Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) |
1779 |
John Dickinson is appointed to be a delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress |
1788 |
The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony |
1795 |
French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance |
1795 |
governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England |
1817 |
José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile |
1840 |
Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears |
1850 |
British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims |
1854 |
Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico |
1862 |
Confederate Territory of Arizona forms |
1865 |
Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC |
1869 |
Elegant California Theater opens in SF |
1871 |
2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck |
1884 |
General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum |
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. |
1886 |
Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. |
1895 |
Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms |
1896 |
1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC) |
1896 |
British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa |
1900 |
Jan Blockx's "Tÿl Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels |
1901 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re |
1902 |
Despite reports that favor the US building a route through Nicaragua for a canal, a 'supplementary report' recommends the route through Panama |
1905 |
French government of Combes falls |
1908 |
Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres |
1911 |
1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) |
1913 |
Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy |
1915 |
Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die |
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 stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. |
1919 |
WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France |
1919 |
Bentley Motors Limited is founded. |
1921 |
William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC |
1922 |
Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin |
1923 |
1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies |
1929 |
"NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio |
1929 |
Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo |
1930 |
-27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record) |
1930 |
Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad |
1933 |
White Sands National Monument, NM established |
1934 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC |
1938 |
Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG |
1938 |
Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame |
1939 |
SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* v NSW |
1942 |
Nazis arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman |
1943 |
Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad |
1943 |
US rations bread & metal - banning presliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts |
1944 |
1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts |
1944 |
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. |
1945 |
Warsaw freed by Soviet army |
1947 |
"Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances |
1947 |
Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000) |
1947 |
Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 |
1948 |
1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
1948 |
Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) |
1949 |
"They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont) |
1949 |
1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson) |
1950 |
Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London |
1950 |
Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion |
1951 |
1st use of lie detector in Netherlands |
1951 |
Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" |
1951 |
NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass |
1951 |
NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts |
1953 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
1954 |
Fanfani forms Italian government |
1955 |
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the People's Liberation Army |
1956 |
German DR forms own army (National People's Army) |
1957 |
3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min |
1958 |
1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) |
1959 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
1960 |
US & Japan sign joint defense treaty |
1961 |
Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat |
1962 |
Southern University closed due to demonstrations |
1962 |
US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59) |
1963 |
Al Davis becomes the head coach and general manager of the Oakland Raiders |
1964 |
Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35) |
1964 |
Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC) |
1965 |
H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname |
1966 |
Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) |
1967 |
20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal |
1967 |
Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada |
1968 |
"Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances |
1968 |
Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC |
1968 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969 |
Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris |
1970 |
Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec |
1970 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13 |
1971 |
Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ |
1971 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark attends a meeting in London with British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling |
1972 |
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner bans all parades and marches in Northern Ireland until the end of the year |
1973 |
Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH |
1973 |
Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak |
1973 |
John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC |
1974 |
"$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV |
1974 |
Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord |
1975 |
"Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS |
1976 |
Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR |
1977 |
Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG |
1977 |
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. |
1978 |
Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi |
1978 |
Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) |
1978 |
Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB |
1979 |
Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon |
1980 |
Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce |
1980 |
Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 |
1980 |
Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000 |
1981 |
Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets |
1981 |
Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity |
1983 |
IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball |
1984 |
80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win |
1985 |
US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise |
1986 |
24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth |
1986 |
AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1 |
1986 |
NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) |
1987 |
11th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
1988 |
Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board |
1989 |
Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC) |
1989 |
IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988 |
1989 |
Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder |
1989 |
West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
1990 |
South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress |
1990 |
Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting |
1991 |
Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel |
1991 |
US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career |
1991 |
WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights |
1991 |
Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins |
1991 |
Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems. |
1992 |
43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila |
1992 |
49th Golden Globes |
1992 |
Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident |
1992 |
NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Philadelphia |
1993 |
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time |
1993 |
West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 |
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. |
1995 |
Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala |
1995 |
Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia |
1996 |
Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997 |
1997 |
47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena |
1997 |
In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other. |
1997 |
Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. |
1998 |
"Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC |
1998 |
48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver |
1998 |
ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando |
1998 |
Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00 |
1998 |
Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural |
1998 |
UCP Telethon |
2000 |
The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth. |
2002 |
Sierra Leone Civil War was finally declared over. |
2003 |
A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. |
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. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England. |
2008 |
The United Nations announce George Clooney as a UN messenger of peace |
2012 |
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet |
2014 |
20th Screen Actors Guild Awards: Mathew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win |
2016 |
Missing Hong Kong bookseller 'confesses' 2003 crime on Chinese TV |
2016 |
Airstrikes kill at least 35 throughout Yemen |
2016 |
Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith to boycott Oscars ceremony |
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