18 Januar

The 18t o Januar is the 18t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 347 days ti come (348 in lowp years).

Hans

2003: Canberra bush fires

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.
• 1915 - Japan issues its "21 Demands" tae the Republic o Cheenae in a bid tae increase its pouer in East Asie.
• 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 aroond 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.
• 2019 - A fuel pipeline splodes in Tlahuelilpan in Central Mexico's Hidalgo state, killin at least 85 fowk.

Births

Pep Guardiola

Leo Varadkar

• 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 philosopher (d. 1755)
• 1782 - Daniel Webster, 14t an 19t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1852)
• 1849 - Sir 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 philosopher (d. 1995)
• 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, umwhile Preses o Sooth Korea
• 1933 - Ray Dolby, American ingineer (d. 2013)
• 1937 - John Hume, Northren Erse politeecian an Nobel laureate (d. 2020)
• 1944 - Alexander Van der Bellen, Preses o Austrick
• 1944 - Paul Keating, 24t Prime Meenister o Australie
• 1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor an director
• 1960 - Sir Mark Rylance, Inglis actor
• 1963 - Martin O'Malley, American politeecian
• 1971 - Pep Guardiola, Catalan fitbaw manager
• 1979 - Willie Collum, Scots fitbaw referee
• 1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese fitbawer
• 1979 - Leo Varadkar, Erse Taoiseach
• 1980 - Jason Segel, American actor
• 1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian fitbawer
• 1986 - Maarja Kivi, Estonie sangster
• 1988 - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
• 1997 - Greg Kiltie, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 474 - Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
• 1862 - John Tyler, 10t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1790)
• 1865 - James Beaumont Neilson, Scots inventor (b. 1792)
• 1890 - Amadeo I o Spain, Keeng o Spain (b. 1845)
• 1933 - John McCartney, Scots fitbawer (b. 1866)
• 1936 − Rudyard Kipling, Inglis writer (b. 1865)
• 1941 - Bernard Haigh, Scots ingineer (b. 1884)
• 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, Inglis politeecian (b. 1906)
• 1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (b. 1896)
• 1982 - Huang Xianfan, Cheenese polymath (b. 1899)
• 2010 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian sangster (b. 1946)
• 2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politeecian (b. 1915)
• 2017 - John Little, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)

Halidays

• Ryal Thai Airmed Forces Day
• Warld Releegion Day