18 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 18 is the day number 18 in a given year. January 18 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1126	Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty of China abdicated the throne in favour of his son Qinling.
1535	Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes,present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.
1689	The French writer and philosopher Charl de Montescio was born.
1778	English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
1778	James Cook became the first European to discover the 'Hawaiian Archipelago'. He named it 'Sandwich Island'.
1778	Captain James Cook arrived on the Sandwich Islands.
1788	The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
1852	Friedrich Löffer, a German biologist and researcher, was born. With the help of one of his companions, he found out the cause of the disease called diphtheria.
1866	Wesley College, the largest school in Australia by enrolment, was established in Melbourne.
1866	Wesley College was established in Melbourne.
1871	A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with Prussian King Wilhelm I being proclaimed as its first Emperor.
1884	Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent trial, which led to the legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886	The Hockey Association was formed in England.
1896	For the first time the X ray machine was brought to the world.
1915	Japanese Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1919	World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened in Versailles, France, to set the peace terms for the Central Powers.
1942	Eminent boxer Muhammad Ali was born.
1943	World War II: As part of Operation Iskra, the Soviet Red Army broke the Siege of Leningrad, opening a narrow land corridor to the city.
1951	A lie-catching machine was first used in the Netherlands.
1955	The famous Urdu writer and poet Sadat Hasan Manto died.
1958	African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey.
1964	Plans to build the World Trade Center in New York City were announced.
1967	Jeremy Thorpe became leader of Britain's Liberal Party.
1977	The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused bya previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.
1983	Thirty years after his death, the International OlympicCommittee restored gold medals to American athlete Jim Thorpe, who hadhad them stripped for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912Summer Olympics.
1990	In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
1995	The domain of Yahoo.com was created.
1998	55th Golden Globe Awards celebrated in 1998.
1999	Nobel Laureate Prof. Amarmeya Sen was nominated for Bharat Ratna.
2003	Famous Hindi poet and writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan died.
2005	The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, was unveiled in France.
2006	In the United States, the Supreme Court was stamped on willful death.
2007	Julie Winfred Bertrand, the world's oldest woman, died in Canada.
2008	George Cloone was made the peacekeeper of the United Nations.
2010	China begins text message surveillance by blocking customers from the country's two largest operators and or lewd messages.
2011	US Federal Communications Commission approved a$28 billion merger between comcast and NBC Universal.
2011	Joe Lieberman an independent U.S. senator announces that he will not seek re-election in 2012 from Connecticut.
2012	Francesco Settings captain of sunken cruise admits the navigational errors that caused by Costa Concordia to capsize
2012	An amateur astronomer discovers a new Neptune sized explained in Peterborough, England.
2013	Battle of Mogadishu for the first time US announces that it will be officially recognized as open diplomatic relation with the new government of Somalia.
2013	For the first time laser communication is achieved by NASA. Scientist successfully beam a picture of Leonardo Da Vinci's ‘Mona Lisa' to the lunar Reconnaissance Obiter by a spacecraft or biting the moon.
2014	Lewis Clarke of Bristol has a cheered a new world record in the united state and become the youngest 16 year old person to trek the North Pole.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1842	Mahadev Govind Ranade / Social reformer, Judge, writer / India
1842	Mahadev Govind Ranade / Freedom Fighter / India
1898	Sukumar Sen / Civil Servant / India
1927	Sundaram Balachander / Actor / India
1933	Jagdish Sharan Verma / Judge / India
1954	Jagdish Mali / Photographer / India
1957	Nafisa Ali / Actress / India
1972	Vinod Kambli / Cricketer / India
1985	Minissha Lamba / Actress / India

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