Editing January 18 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[474]] &ndash; Seven-year-old [[Leo II (emperor)|Leo II]] succeeds his maternal grandfather [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]] as [[Byzantine emperor]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Fik |last=Meijer |author-link=Fik Meijer |title=Emperors Don't Die in Bed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uN_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 |date=31 July 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-134-38405-X |pages=158}}</ref> He dies ten months later.
* [[532]] &ndash; [[Nika riots]] in [[Constantinople]] fail.
*[[1126]] &ndash; [[Emperor Huizong of Song|Emperor Huizong]] abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son [[Emperor Qinzong of Song|Emperor Qinzong]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Frederick W. |last=Mote |author-link=Frederick W. Mote |title=Imperial China 900-1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQWW7QgUH4gC&pg=PA105 |year=2003 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01212-7 |pages=105}}</ref>
*[[1486]] &ndash; King [[Henry VII of England]] marries [[Elizabeth of York]], daughter of [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]], uniting the [[House of Lancaster]] and the [[House of York]].<ref>{{cite book |first=James |last=BIRCHALL |title=England under the Tudors and Stuarts: a history of two centuries of revolution, etc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ub1XAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3 |year=1861 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company |pages=3}}</ref>
*[[1562]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius IV]] reopens the [[Council of Trent]] for its third and final session.
*[[1586]] &ndash; The magnitude 7.9 [[1586 Tenshō earthquake|Tenshō earthquake]] strikes [[Honshu]], Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a [[tsunami]].<ref name=NGDC>{{citation |title=Significant Earthquake Database |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/5957 |author=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) |publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]] |doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K |year=1972 |type=Data Set}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1670]] &ndash; [[Henry Morgan]] [[Henry Morgan's Panama expedition|captures]] [[Panama]].
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Frederick I of Prussia|Frederick I]] crowns himself King in [[Prussia]] in [[Königsberg]].
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] is the first known European to discover the [[Hawaiian Islands]], which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
*[[1788]] &ndash; The first elements of the [[First Fleet]] carrying 736 convicts from [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] to Australia arrive at [[Botany Bay]].
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Jan Willem Janssens]] surrenders the [[Dutch Cape Colony]] to the British.
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Wesley College, Melbourne|Wesley College]] is established in Melbourne, Australia.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine &#91;afterw.&#93; The Wesleyan methodist Sunday school magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA118 |year=1866 |pages=118}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm I of Germany]] is proclaimed ''Kaiser Wilhelm'' in the [[Hall of Mirrors]] of the [[Palace of Versailles]] (France) towards the end of the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. Wilhelm already had the title of [[German Emperor]] since the [[Constitution of the German Confederation 1871|constitution of 1 January 1871]], but he had hesitated to accept the title.<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Headlam |first1=James Wycliffe |editor1-last=Abbott |editor1-first=Evelyn |title=Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire |date=1899 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |page=370 |oclc=1041634868 |wslink=Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire/Chapter 14 |scan=Page:Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire (1899).djvu/426}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; Modern [[field hockey]] is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
*[[1896]] &ndash; An [[X-ray]] [[X-ray generator|generating machine]] is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

===1901–present===
*[[1911]] &ndash; [[Eugene B. Ely]] lands on the deck of the {{USS|Pennsylvania|ACR-4|6}} anchored in [[San Francisco Bay]], the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[First Balkan War]]: A [[Hellenic Navy|Greek]] flotilla defeats the [[Ottoman Navy]] in the [[Battle of Lemnos (1913)|Naval Battle of Lemnos]], securing the islands of the Northern [[Aegean Sea]] for Greece.
*[[1915]] &ndash; Japan issues the "[[Twenty-One Demands]]" to the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] opens in [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]], France.
*  1919   &ndash; [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]] becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Alt Llobregat insurrection]] breaks out in [[Central Catalonia]], [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Evans |first=Danny |year=2018 |chapter=Spanish anarchists and the Republican state, 1931–1936 |title=Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-138-06314-3 |page=7}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: British troops [[East African Campaign (World War II)#Allied counter-offensive|launch a general counter-offensive]] against [[Italian East Africa]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]]: The first uprising of Jews in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: Liberation of [[Kraków]], Poland by the [[Red Army]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Willie O'Ree]], the first [[Black Canadian]] [[National Hockey League]] player, makes his NHL debut with the [[Boston Bruins]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Capital Airlines Flight 20]] crashes into a farm in [[Charles City County, Virginia]], killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal [[Capital Airlines (United States)|Capital Airlines]] crash in as many years.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Albert DeSalvo]], the "[[Boston Strangler]]", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anglin |first=Robert J. |title=DeSalvo Guilty, Insanity Ruled Out — Bailey to Appeal Life Sentence |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 19, 1967 |page=A1}}</ref>
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 266]] crashes into [[Santa Monica Bay]] killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
*[[1972]] &ndash; Members 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]].<ref name="AP Archive">{{cite news |url=http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1027878cf31917aa32db9fe6d6d1635f |title=Bangladesh Guerrilla Fighters Give Up Arms In Dhaka |agency=Associated Press |date=18 January 1972}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[s:Israel-Egypt Disengagement Treaty of 1974|A Disengagement of Forces agreement]] is signed between the [[Israel]]i and [[Egypt]]ian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the [[Yom Kippur War]].
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Christianity in Lebanon|Lebanese Christian]] [[militia]]s [[Karantina massacre|kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; Scientists at the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] announce they have identified a previously unknown [[bacterium]] as the cause of the mysterious [[Legionnaires' disease]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Garrett |first=Laurie |title=The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance |location=New York |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |date=1994 |isbn=9780374126469 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-lEAwAAQBAJ |page=189}}</ref>
*  1977   &ndash; Australia's worst [[Granville rail disaster|rail disaster]] occurs at [[Granville, New South Wales|Granville, Sydney]], killing 83.
*  1977   &ndash; [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia's]] Prime minister, [[Džemal Bijedić]], his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[European Court of Human Rights]] finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in [[Northern Ireland]], but not guilty of [[torture]].
*[[1981]] &ndash; Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to [[BASE jumping|BASE jump]] from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
*[[1983]] &ndash; The [[International Olympic Committee]] restores [[Jim Thorpe]]'s Olympic medals to his family.
*[[1986]] &ndash; An [[Aerovías]] [[Sud Aviation Caravelle]] [[1986 Aerovías Guatemala air crash|crashes]] on approach to [[Mundo Maya International Airport]] in [[Flores, Petén]], Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.<ref name="ASN">{{cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III HC-BAE |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19860118-0 |accessdate=1 October 2013 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146]] crashes near [[Chongqing Baishiyi Airport]], killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-18D B-222 Chongqing Baishiyi Airport |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19880118-3 |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1990]] &ndash; Washington, D.C., Mayor [[Marion Barry]] is [[Marion Barry#1979–1991: Mayor of the District of Columbia|arrested for drug possession]] in an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] [[Sting operation|sting]].<ref>{{cite news |last=LaFraniere |first=Sharon |title=Barry Arrested on Cocaine Charges in Undercover FBI, Police Operation |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 19, 1990 |page=A1 |accessdate=January 26, 2024 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/barry.htm}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Day]] is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
*[[2002]] &ndash; The [[Sierra Leone Civil War]] is declared over.
*[[2003]] &ndash; A [[2003 Canberra bushfires|bushfire]] kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in [[Canberra]], Australia.
*[[2005]] &ndash; The [[Airbus A380]], the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in [[Toulouse]], France
*[[2007]] &ndash; The 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.
*[[2008]] &ndash; The [[Euphronios Krater]] is unveiled in [[Rome]] after being returned to Italy by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; More than 115,000 websites engage in an [[Protests against SOPA and PIPA|online protest]] against the [[Stop Online Piracy Act]] and the [[PROTECT IP Act|Protect IP Act]] in the [[United States|US]].{{cn|date=August 2024}} The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to [[Freedom of speech|free speech]] and many of them temporarily shut down in protest.
*[[2018]] &ndash; A bus catches fire on the [[Samara]]–[[Shymkent]] road in [[Yrgyz District]], [[Aktobe Region|Aktobe]], Kazakhstan.<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7472432.stm |title=Heathrow 'needs a third runway' |work=BBC News |access-date=17 October 2008 |date=25 June 2008}}</ref> The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.<ref name="RFERL1">{{cite news |title=Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Open Investigations Of Bus Inferno That Killed 52 |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-deadly-bus-fire-uzbekistan/28982232.html |access-date=19 January 2018 |work=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty |date=19 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=cnn>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/asia/kazakhstan-bus-fire/index.html |title=52 killed in Kazakhstan bus fire |first=Radina |last=Gigova |work=CNN |access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="metro1">{{cite news |last1=Drewett |first1=Zoe |title=52 people killed when bus bursts into flames on motorway |url=http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/18/52-people-killed-bus-bursts-flames-motorway-7238873/ |access-date=18 January 2018 |work=Metro |date=18 January 2018}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion|An oil pipeline explosion]] near [[Tlahuelilpan]], Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-26/a-gas-heist-gone-wrong-an-explosion-and-137-deaths-in-mexico |title=A Gas Heist Gone Wrong, an Explosion, and 137 Deaths in Mexico |date=26 June 2019 |first=Matthew |last=Bremner |access-date=22 January 2022 |work=Bloomberg}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; [[2023 Brovary helicopter crash|A helicopter crash]] in [[Ukraine]] leaves 14 people dead, including the country's [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)|Interior Minister]], [[Denys Monastyrsky]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kottasová |first1=Ivana |last2=Kostenko |first2=Maria |last3=Tanno |first3=Sophie |last4=Swails |first4=Brent |title=Helicopter crash near Kyiv kills 14, including Ukrainian interior minister |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/europe/helicopter-crash-ukraine-intl/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=18 January 2023 |language=en |date=18 January 2023 |archive-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118114334/https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/europe/helicopter-crash-ukraine-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2025]] &ndash; The popular social media app, [[TikTok]], is banned in the United States, after the passing of [[Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act|PAFACA]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Allyn |first=Bobby |date=2025-01-18 |title=TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/01/18/nx-s1-5266146/tiktok-offline-supreme-court-ban |access-date=2025-01-19 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref>
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