January 18th

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January 18 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 18 ) is the 18th day of the Gregorian calendar , leaving 347 days (348 days in leap years) until the end of the year.

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events

politics and world affairs

Coin of Leo II
1486: Elizabeth of York
1671: Henry Morgan
1701: Coronation procession of Friedrich I.
Map of Hawaii
  • 1778: James Cook , on his third South Pacific voyage, becomes the first European to discover Hawaii and christens the islands the Sandwich Islands .
  • 1801: Tsar Paul I of Russia makes Georgia a province of his country.
1871: Imperial proclamation at Versailles
1918: The Tauride Palace
2002: Sierra Leone

business

  • 1695: In France , King Louis XIV enacted a poll tax . The population is divided into 22 tax brackets. At the lowest one livre is payable to the state, at the highest it is 2,000 livres.
1799: Schematic representation of a fourdrinier paper machine
1993: The Focus logo

science and technology

1887: Lazar Edeleanu
1911: Landed on the USS Pennsylvania

Culture

1825: Bolshoi Theater
Cover picture The Sinner

society

1990: Marion Barry

religion

disasters

  • 1884: The American passenger liner City of Columbus sank after a rock collision off the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of the US state of Massachusetts . 29 people are saved while 103 drown or freeze to death in the freezing water, including all women and children on board.
  • 1934: A severe earthquake in the Indian region of Bihar claims over 10,000 lives.
2003: Canberra bush fires
  • 2003: The bushfires that broke out in the Australian capital Canberra on January 8th spiral out of control and breach the containment lines.
2007: Satellite image of Kyrill
  • 2007: Hurricane Kyrill , the heaviest hurricane since Lothar on December 26, 1999, swept across Europe. 47 people are killed and there is property damage of over a billion euros.
  • 2018: Hurricane Friederike peaks as it sweeps across Europe . It claims eight dead, many injured and causes damage in the hundreds of millions.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

Sports

Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

Thyrsus González (b. 1624)

18th century

Johann Jacob Moser (* 1701)

19th century

1801-1850

Warren de la Rue (b. 1815)
Cesar Cui (b. 1835)

1851-1900

Otto von Below (* 1857)
Paul Ehrenfest (b. 1880)
Oliver Hardy (b. 1892)

20th century

1901-1925

  • 1901: Murayama Tomoyoshi , Japanese writer and theater director
  • 1901: Pem , Anglo-German journalist and writer
  • 1902: Umbo , German photographer and photojournalist
  • 1902: Émile Aillaud , French architect
  • 1903: Angelo Kramel , German lawyer, politician, member of the Bundestag, trade unionist and chairman of the civil servants' association
  • 1903: Berthold Goldschmidt , German composer
  • 1903: Werner Hinz , German actor
Cary Grant (born 1904)
Danny Kaye (born 1911)
Yoichiro Nambu (born 1921)

1926-1950

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (b. 1930)
John Hume (born 1937)
Vassula Ryden (b. 1942)
Ernst Leuenberger (* 1945)

1951-1975

Kevin Costner (born 1955)
Volker Pispers (* 1958)
Enrico Lo Verso (born 1964)
Dave Bautista (born 1969)
Benedict Weber (b. 1974)

1976-2000

Didier Dinart (born 1977)
Samantha Mumba (born 1983)

21st century

Died

Before the 16th century

Peter I of Portugal († 1367)

16th to 18th centuries

19th century

John Tyler († 1862)

20th century

1901-1950

William Gatacre (died 1906)
Hermann Müller († 1927)

1951-2000

Curly Howard († 1952)
Carl Zuckmayer († 1977)

21st century

Jan Twardowski († 2006)

holidays and commemorations

The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .


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