Major Events
- 532 Nika uprising against Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople fails, 30,000 killed by troops loyal to the Emperor in the Hippodrome
- 1591 King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day
- 1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
- 1817 Argentine general José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile
- 1871 Second German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck
- 1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later
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Jan 18 in Film & TV
- 1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
Jan 18 in Music
- 1980 Pink Floyd's double album "The Wall" hits #1
Jan 18 in Sport
- 1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals (Pentathlon & Decathlon victories) 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semi-pro baseball
Did You Know?
World's 62 richest people are now as wealthy as half the world's population according to a report published by Oxfam
Daniel Webster
Edmund Barton
Daniel Hale Williams
A. A. Milne
Ray Dolby
Paul Keating
Oliver Hardy
Cary Grant
Kevin Costner
Peter Mark Roget
Curt Flood
Mark Messier
Angelique Kerber
Fun Fact About January 18
Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
Famous Weddings
- 1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV
- 1827 American religious leader Joseph Smith Jr (21) weds future church group movement leader Emma Hale (22) in South Bainbridge, New York, until his death in 1844
- 1893 British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) weds Carrie Balestier (29) at All Souls Church in Langham Place, London, England; writer. Henry James gave away the bride
Famous Divorces
- 1996 Princess of Rock Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from King of Pop Michael Jackson in NYC
More January 18 Weddings
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The Name Is Bond – Cary Bond!
They wanted Cary Grant to take the part of James Bond when the film series was launched with Dr No in the early Sixties. But the debonair actor turned it down.
January 18, 1904
Siege of Leningrad
Two young girls help assemble Soviet submachine guns during the Siege of Leningrad
January 18, 1943
