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This day in history: 18 January

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Key facts

426 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 18 January.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2026: At least 45 people are killed and 292 others injured after two trains collide in Adamuz in the worst railway disaster in over a decade in Spain.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Amy Carmichael (Church of England)

Christian feast day: Athanasius of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Blessed Regina Protmann

Christian feast day: Confession of Peter (Eastern Orthodox, some Anglican and Lutheran Churches)

Christian feast day: Deicolus

Christian feast day: January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Margaret of Hungary

Christian feast day: Prisca

Christian feast day: Volusianus of Tours

Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)

Events

2026At least 45 people are killed and 292 others injured after two trains collide in Adamuz in the worst railway disaster in over a decade in Spain.

2025The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United States, after the passing of PAFACA.

2023A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

2019An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.

2018A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.

2012More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US.[citation needed] The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to free speech and many of them te

2008The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2007The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.

2005The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France

2003A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

2002The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

1993Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.

1990Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

1988China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.

1986An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, Petén, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.

1983The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

1981Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

1978The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

1977Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.

1977Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

1977SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1976Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.

1974A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

1972Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.

1969United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

1967Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

1960Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.

1958Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

1945World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.

1943Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1941World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.

1932Alt Llobregat insurrection breaks out in Central Catalonia, Spain.

1919Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.

1919World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.

1915Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.

1913First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.

1911Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

1898British colonial engineer and estate manager William Claxton Peppé discovered the Buddha's remains in Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh, India.

1896An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

1886Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

Born on this day

2010Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Canadian actress and dancer

2009Lumi Pollack, American actress

2003Wendy Shongwe, South African sprinter and soccer player

2002Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player

2002Karim Adeyemi, German footballer

2002Ki-Jana Hoever, Dutch footballer

1999Djorkaeff Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer

1999Gary Trent Jr., American basketball player

1999Karan Brar, American actor

1999Mateus Ward, American actor

1999Tee Higgins, American football player

1998Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer

1998Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer

1998Lisandro Martínez, Argentinian footballer

1997Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player

1997Emil Audero, Indonesian footballer

1996Sarah Gilman, American actress

1995Bryce Alford, American basketball player

1995Leonard Fournette, American football player

1995Samu Castillejo, Spanish footballer

1994Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player

1994Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer

1994Max Fried, American baseball player

1993Juan Fernando Quintero, Colombian footballer

1993Sean Keenan, Australian actor

1992Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer

1991Douglas Wreden, a.k.a. DougDoug, American streamer

1990Alex Pietrangelo, Canadian ice hockey player

1990Brett Lawrie, Canadian baseball player

1990Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player

1990Gorgui Dieng, Senegalese basketball player

1990Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner

1990Nacho, Spanish footballer

1990Zeeko Zaki, Egyptian-American actor

1989Michael Pineda, Dominican baseball player

1989Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer

1988Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer

1988Angelique Kerber, German tennis player

1988Ashleigh Murray, American actress and singer

1988Boy van Poppel, Dutch cyclist

Died on this day

2025Claire van Kampen, English director and composer (born 1953)

2023David Crosby, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

2022André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist (born 1948)

2022Francisco Gento, Spanish football player (born 1933)

2022Yvette Mimieux, American actress (born 1942)

2019John Coughlin, American figure skater (born 1985)

2019Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (born 1938)

2017Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (born 1919)

2017Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)

2017Roberta Peters, American coloratura soprano (born 1930)

2016Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1948)

2016Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (born 1924)

2016Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (born 1924)

2016T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (born 1930)

2015Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer and prosecutor (born 1963)

2015Christine Valmy, Romanian cosmetologist and author (born 1926)

2015Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (born 1924)

2015Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (born 1933)

2014Andy Graver, English footballer (born 1927)

2014Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (born 1951)

2014Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet and painter (born 1923)

2014Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and author (born 1919)

2014Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th Governor of Plateau State (born 1938)

2014Sarah Marshall, English actress (born 1933)

2013Jim Horning, American computer scientist and academic (born 1942)

2013Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (born 1989)

2013Lewis Marnell, Australian skateboarder (born 1982)

2013Ron Nachman, Israeli lawyer and politician (born 1942)

2013Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (born 1922)

2012Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer and educator (born 1927)

Quote of the day

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

attributed to the Buddha

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