Tukuk-OS📅 January 18
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on January 18? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2019 — An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
- 1990 — In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
- 1983 — Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
International Olympic CommitteeJim Thorpe1912 Summer Olympics
- 1983 — Singaporean communist activist Tan Chay Wa was executed, leading to a much-publicised trial of his brother for engraving "subversive" material on the gravestone.
- 1969 — In response to months of nationwide student protests, thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo.
- 1958 — Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
- 1958 — Members of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, which turned into an armed confrontation between the two groups (pictured).
- 1956 — Iranian Shia cleric Navvab Safavi, founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
- 1951 — Construction of the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured) began in Busan, South Korea.
- 1943 — World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege of the city.
- 1932 — The Alt Llobregat insurrection began with a miners' strike in Fígols and quickly spreads throughout central Catalonia.
- 1915 — Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
- 1871 — The German Empire was formed by the unification of previously independent German states, under the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
German EmpireUnification of GermanyStates of the German Empire
- 1788 — The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1535 — Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.
- 474 — The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.
Births
- 2010 — Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Canadian actress and dancer
- 2009 — Lumi Pollack, American actress
- 2003 — Wendy Shongwe, South African sprinter and soccer player
- 2002 — Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player
- 2002 — Ki-Jana Hoever, Dutch footballer
- 2002 — Karim Adeyemi, German footballer
- 1999 — Karan Brar, American actor
- 1999 — Tee Higgins, American football player
- 1999 — Djorkaeff Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1999 — Gary Trent Jr., American basketball player
- 1999 — Mateus Ward, American actor
- 1998 — Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer
Deaths
- 2025 — Claire van Kampen, English director and composer (born 1953)
- 2023 — David Crosby, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
- 2022 — Francisco Gento, Spanish football player (born 1933)
- 2022 — Yvette Mimieux, American actress (born 1942)
- 2022 — André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist (born 1948)
- 2019 — John Coughlin, American figure skater (born 1985)
- 2019 — Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (born 1938)
- 2017 — Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (born 1919)
- 2017 — Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)
- 2017 — Roberta Peters, American coloratura soprano (born 1930)
- 2016 — Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (born 1924)
- 2016 — Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1948)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Amy Carmichael (Church of England)
- Christian feast day: Athanasius of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Christian feast day: Confession of Peter (Eastern Orthodox, some Anglican and Lutheran Churches)
- Christian feast day: Deicolus
- Christian feast day: Margaret of Hungary
- Christian feast day: Prisca
- Christian feast day: Blessed Regina Protmann
- Christian feast day: Volusianus of Tours
- Christian feast day: January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)
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