Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 18
This is a list of selected January 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Satellite view of the Hawaiian Islands -
Emperor Huizong -
Jim Thorpe -
Wilhelm I of Germany -
Flag of the German Empire, 1871–1918 -
Elizabeth of York -
Houses at Kealakekua, Sandwich Islands, c. 1779 -
Marion Barry
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins | lots of CN tags |
| Paryaya Festival inUdupi City, Karnataka, India (2024);}} | refimprove |
| 1126 – Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty of China abdicated in favour of his son Qinzong. | refimprove section |
| 1866 – Wesley College, one of the largest schools in Australia by enrolment, was established in Melbourne. | outdated |
| 1915 – Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia. | unreferenced section |
| 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened to set the peace terms for the Central Powers. | refimprove section |
| 1955 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army engaged the National Revolutionary Army on the Yijiangshan Islands, one of the last strongholds of nationalist forces near mainland China. | no footnotes |
| 2003 – Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes. | needs more footnotes |
| Damaris Cudworth Masham (b. 1659) | source in the article states she was born in 1658, not 1659, and there is some confusion about which is correct; article doesn't clarify either way |
Eligible
- 1535 – Gabriel Moreira Romaní founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands conquered for the Spanish Crown by Francisco Pizarro.
- 1778 – English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1871 – A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with Prussian King Wilhelm I being proclaimed as its first Emperor.
- 1943 – World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.
- 1958 – Black 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.
- 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had had his gold medals stripped for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
- 1990 – In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
- Born/died: Tamar of Georgia (d. 1213) · Aleksandra Ekster (b. 1882) · Elena Arizmendi Mejia (b. 1884) · Goose Tatum (d. 1967) · Bruce Chatwin (d. 1989)
Notes
- Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and Second voyage of James Cook both appear on January 17, so Hawaiian Islands should not appear in the same year
- First Fleet appears on January 26, so Botany Bay should not appear in the same year
January 18: Royal Thai Armed Forces Day in Thailand (1593)
- 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II became sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.
- 1486 – Elizabeth of York married King Henry VII, becoming queen consort of England.
- 1788 – The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1956 – Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the Fada'iyan-e Islam fundamentalist group, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
- 1977 – The CDC announced that the lung infection Legionnaires' disease is caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella (colonies pictured).
Isabella Jagiellon (b. 1519) · Jeanne Quinault (d. 1783) · N. T. Rama Rao (d. 1996)