The 18t o Januar is the 18t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 347 days ti come (348 in lowp years).
Hans 2003 : Canberra bush fires2007 : Trees efter Hurricane Kyrill in Siegen-Wittgenstein district in wastren Germany 1486 - Henry VII o Ingland marries Elizabeth o York.
1778 - James Cook lands in Hawaii .[ 1]
1871 - The German Empire is foondit.
1915 - Japan issues its "21 Demands" tae the Republic o Cheenae in a bid tae increase its pouer in East Asie.
1934 - A yirdquauk in Bihar , Indie , kills 10,000 fowk.
1943 - First uprisin o Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.[ 2]
1977 - A train crash at Granville, Sydney , Australie , kills 83 fowk.
2002 - The Sierra Leone Ceevil War is declarit ower.
2003 - Bush fires aroond Canberra , Australie , reach their hicht.
2005 - The Airbus A380 is unveiled in Toulouse .
2007 - Hurricane Kyrill devastates much o North, Wast an Central Europe . Germany an the Unitit Kinrick are particularly badly hit, as 43 are kilt in total across the affectit areas.
2009 - A ceasfire is reached in the 3-week conflict in Israel an Gaza .
2012 - The Inglis Wikipaedia blacks oot for 24 hours tae protests against the SOPA an PIPA laws proposit bi the Unitit States Congress.[ 3]
2017 - An avalanche, efter twa yirdquauks, buries a hottle in Abruzzo , Italy .
2018 - A bus fire naur Aktobe , Kazakhstan , kills at least 52 fowk.
2019 - A fuel pipeline splodes in Tlahuelilpan in Central Mexico 's Hidalgo state, killin at least 85 fowk.
Births Pep Guardiola Leo Varadkar 1602 - Robert Stuart, Duke o Kintyre an Lorne (d. 27 Mey 1602)
1630 - Andrew Balfour, Scots botanist, doctor, antiquary an beuk collector (d. 1694)
1689 - Montesquieu , French lawyer an philosopher (d. 1755)
1782 - Daniel Webster, 14t an 19t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1852)
1849 - Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1920 )
1882 - A. A. Milne, Inglis writer (d. 1956 )
1892 - Oliver Hardy, American actor an comedian (d. 1957 )
1904 - Cary Grant , Inglis-American actor (d. 1986)[ 4]
1921 - Yoichiro Nambu , Japanese-American pheesicist (d. 2015)
1925 - Gilles Deleuze , French philosopher (d. 1995 )
1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, umwhile Preses o Sooth Korea
1933 - Ray Dolby, American ingineer (d. 2013 )
1937 - John Hume , Northren Erse politeecian an Nobel laureate (d. 2020)
1944 - Alexander Van der Bellen , Preses o Austrick
1944 - Paul Keating, 24t Prime Meenister o Australie
1955 - Kevin Costner , American actor an director
1960 - Sir Mark Rylance, Inglis actor
1963 - Martin O'Malley , American politeecian
1971 - Pep Guardiola, Catalan fitbaw manager
1979 - Willie Collum, Scots fitbaw referee
1979 - Paulo Ferreira , Portuguese fitbawer
1979 - Leo Varadkar , Erse Taoiseach
1980 - Jason Segel , American actor
1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian fitbawer
1986 - Maarja Kivi , Estonie sangster
1988 - Angelique Kerber , German tennis player
1997 - Greg Kiltie, Scots fitbawer
Daiths 474 - Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1862 - John Tyler , 10t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1790)
1865 - James Beaumont Neilson, Scots inventor (b. 1792)
1890 - Amadeo I o Spain , Keeng o Spain (b. 1845)
1933 - John McCartney, Scots fitbawer (b. 1866)
1936 − Rudyard Kipling , Inglis writer (b. 1865)
1941 - Bernard Haigh, Scots ingineer (b. 1884)
1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, Inglis politeecian (b. 1906 )
1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (b. 1896 )
1982 - Huang Xianfan , Cheenese polymath (b. 1899 )
2010 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian sangster (b. 1946 )
2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politeecian (b. 1915 )
2017 - John Little, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930 )
Halidays
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References
↑ Editors, History com. "Captain Cook reaches Hawaii" . HISTORY (in Inglis). Retrieved 15 November 2022 . CS1 maint: extra text: authors leet (link )
↑ "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Definition, Facts, & History | Britannica" . www.britannica.com (in Inglis). Retrieved 15 November 2022 .
↑ "Archive:English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout - Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki" . foundation.wikimedia.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 15 November 2022 .
↑ "Cary Grant | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica" . www.britannica.com (in Inglis). Retrieved 15 November 2022 .