The 18t o Januar is the 18t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 347 days ti come (348 in lowp years).
2007 : Trees efter Hurricane Kyrill in
Siegen -Wittgenstein district in wastren
Germany
1486 - Henry VII o Ingland marries Elizabeth o York .
1778 - James Cook lands in Hawaii .
1871 - The German Empire is foondit.
1934 - A yirdquauk in Bihar , Indie , kills 10,000 fowk.
1943 - First uprisin o Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1977 - A train crash at Granville, Sydney , Australie , kills 83 fowk.
2002 - The Sierra Leone Ceevil War is declarit ower.
2003 - Bush fires around Canberra , Australie , reach their hicht.
2005 - The Airbus A380 is unveiled in Toulouse .
2007 - Hurricane Kyrill devastates much o North, Wast an Central Europe . Germany an the Unitit Kinrick are particularly badly hit, as 43 are kilt in total across the affectit areas.
2009 - A ceasfire is reached in the 3-week conflict in Israel an Gaza .
2012 - The Inglis Wikipaedia blacks oot for 24 hours tae protests against the SOPA an PIPA laws proposit bi the Unitit States Congress.
2017 - An avalanche, efter twa yirdquauks , buries a hottle in Abruzzo , Italy .
2018 - A bus fire naur Aktobe , Kazakhstan , kills at least 52 fowk.
1602 - Robert Stuart, Duke o Kintyre an Lorne (d. 27 Mey 1602 )
1630 - Andrew Balfour , Scots botanist, doctor, antiquary an beuk collector (d. 1694 )
1689 - Montesquieu , French lawyer an filosofer (d. 1755 )
1782 - Daniel Webster , 14t an 19t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1852 )
1849 - Edmund Barton , 1st Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1920 )
1882 - A. A. Milne , Inglis writer (d. 1956 )
1892 - Oliver Hardy , American actor an comedian (d. 1957 )
1904 - Cary Grant , Inglis-American actor (d. 1986 )
1921 - Yoichiro Nambu , Japanese-American pheesicist (d. 2015 )
1925 - Gilles Deleuze , French filosofer (d. 1995 )
1933 - Ray Dolby , American ingineer (d. 2013 )
1937 - John Hume , Northren Erse politeecian
1944 - Alexander Van der Bellen , Preses o Austrick
1944 - Paul Keating , 24t Prime Meenister o Australie
1955 - Kevin Costner , American actor an director
1960 - Mark Rylance , Inglis actor
1963 - Martin O'Malley , American politeecian
1971 - Pep Guardiola , Spainyie fitbaa manager
1979 - Paulo Ferreira , Portuguese fitbawer
1979 - Leo Varadkar , Erse Taoiseach
1980 - Jason Segel , American actor
1986 - Maarja Kivi , Estonie sangster
1988 - Angelique Kerber , German tennis player
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