
January 18 is the 18nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days left until the end of the year (348 in leap years).
Events
- 532 – The Nika revolt that started in Constantinople (today Istanbul) was completely suppressed. This bloodiest revolt in history, in which 30.000 people died, began on January 13.
- 1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro discovered Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1778 – British explorer James Cook reached Hawaii.
- 1896 – The X-ray machine was first demonstrated to the public in New York. The name “X” symbolized the uncertainty of what type of ray it was.
- 1903 – United States President Theodore Roosevelt's radio message to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom was the first transatlantic communication by radio from the United States.
- 1906 – Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin was executed. Babushkin was one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks).
- 1911 – An airplane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time. Pilot Eugene Burton Ely landed on the USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) in San Francisco Harbor.
- 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. He dreamed of being the first person to do so, but Roald Amundsen had done it about a month before him.
- 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference, formed by representatives of the Allied Powers, opened to make agreements with the defeated states of World War I. The map of Europe was redrawn.
- 1927 – The Treaty of Lausanne was rejected by the US Senate.
- 1928 – Three people from the Circassian Hacı Sami gang were executed in Eminönü Square. These people were sentenced to death for allegedly assassinating Atatürk.
- 1929 – Leon Trotsky was deported from the Soviet Union.
- 1931 – Naşide Saffet Esen won the Türkiye Beauty Queen Contest organized by Cumhuriyet newspaper.
- 1940 – The National Protection Law was passed.
- 1943 – The Soviet Union announced that it had broken the German siege of Leningrad.
- 1944 - Trak The passenger ferry sank after hitting rocks on its way from Çanakkale to Bandırma: 24 people died.
- 1946 – The opera Madam Butterfly was staged in Ankara.
- 1947 – Ten citizens from the Senirkent sub-district of Uluborlu district of Isparta sent a protest letter to the Presidency of the Turkish Grand National Assembly via a notary. In the letter, they wrote that the gendarmerie systematically mistreated them to the extent of torture, even though they had committed no crime.
- 1950 – The Democrat Party (DP) demanded the right of workers to strike.
- 1951 – Vietnam Liberation Front guerrillas retreat from Hanoi; the city falls to the French.
- 1954 – The Foreign Capital Law was passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- 1964 – The People's Republic of Pemba was established.
- 1966 – Prisoners demanding amnesty in Ankara Prison revolted. 260 prisoners in Istanbul Üsküdar Toptaşı Prison began a hunger strike.
- 1966 – Vefa Poyraz was appointed governor of Istanbul.
- 1969 – The first pulsars emitting regular electromagnetic waves were discovered by American scientists.
- 1977 – The bacterium that causes the mysterious pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease was discovered and Legionella pneumophila was named.
- 1983 – The Ministry of Culture prepared a Cinema Bill. The Ministry was bringing control to films with the bill.
- 1984 – In the hearing of the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) case, the defendants were made to wear uniforms.
- 1989 – Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir, Günaydın After the newspaper, he bought Gelişim Publishing.
- 1991 – Iraq fires Scud missiles at the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa.
- 1993 – An avalanche fell on the Üzengili village of Bayburt; 56 people died and 22 were injured.
- 1996 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's two-year marriage ended in divorce.
- 2005 – The 800-passenger passenger aircraft Airbus A380 was introduced to the press in Toulouse (France).
- 2010 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, convicted of the murder of journalist and writer Abdi İpekçi and two separate robberies, was released from Sincan F Type Prison.
Births
- 1519 – Izabela Jagiellonka, wife of King János I of Eastern Hungary (d. 1559)
- 1689 – Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
- 1752 – John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
- 1779 – Peter Roget, English physician and linguist (d. 1869)
- 1795 – Anna Pavlovna, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1865)
- 1813 – George Rex Graham, American journalist, editor and publisher (d. 1894)
- 1825 – Edward Frankland, English chemist and academic (d. 1899)
- 1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer and pianist (d. 1894)
- 1849 – Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
- 1851 – Albert Aublet, French artist and painter (d. 1938)
- 1852 – Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, French Admiral and Minister of the Navy (d. 1924)
- 1857 – Otto von Below, Prussian general (d. 1944)
- 1867 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet (d.1916)
- 1871 – Benjamin I, 266th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople (d. 1946)
- 1873 – Memed Abashidze, Georgian political leader, writer and philanthropist (d. 1937)
- 1876 – Elsa Einstein, Albert Einstein’s second wife and cousin (d. 1936)
- 1879 – Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
- 1880 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist (d. 1933)
- 1882 – AA Milne, English writer (d. 1956)
- 1882 – Lazare Lévy, French pianist, organist, composer and teacher (d. 1964)
- 1889 – Kanji Ishiwara, Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1949)
- 1892 – Oliver Hardy, American film actor (from the duo Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1957)
- 1896 – Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1982)
- 1898 – George Dawson, American author (d. 2001)
- 1904 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
- 1911 – Danny Kaye, American stage, film and TV comedian (d. 1987)
- 1913 – Ali Sururi, Turkish theater and cinema actor (d. 1998)
- 1915 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (one of the pioneers of Eurocommunist thought and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982) (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Gilles Deleuze, French writer and thinker (d. 1995)
- 1927 – İsmet Sıral, Turkish musician, saxophonist, flutist and ney player (d. 1987)
- 1927 – Perihan Tedü, Turkish theater actress (d. 1992)
- 1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician and 1998 Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2020)
- 1937 – Pilar Cansino, Spanish actress
- 1938 – Anatoli Kolesov, Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler and coach (d. 2012)
- 1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian F1 driver (d. 1982)
- 1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director and winner of the Academy Award for Best Director
- 1961 – Mustafa Demir, Turkish architect and politician
- 1966 – Yaşar Tüzün, Turkish politician
- 1967 – Annette Hess, German screenwriter
- 1971 – Pep Guardiola, Spanish manager
- 1979 – Cem Bahtiyar, Turkish musician and bassist of the band maNga
- 1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, actor, film director and producer
- 1980 – Jason Segel, American actor
- 1982 – Atacan Öztürk, Turkish professional football player
- 1983 – Kaan Sekban, Turkish comedian
- 1990 – José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias, Spanish football player
- 1995 – Samu Castillejo, Spanish footballer
Deaths
- 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 92 BC)
- 474 – Leo I became the emperor of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire in the period 457 – 474 (b. 401)
- 896 – Humâreveyh bin Ahmed bin Tulun became the ruler of Tulunid in the period 884-896 (b. 864)
- 1213 – Tamar, the famous queen who ruled the Kingdom of Georgia from 1184-1213 (b. 1160)
- 1253 – Henry I was King of Cyprus (b. 1217)
- 1367 – Pedro I, King of Portugal (b. 1320)
- 1471 – Go-Hanazono, 102nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession (b. 1418)
- 1557 – Pietro Bembo, Italian Knights Hospitaller, cardinal, scholar, poet and literary theorist (b. 1470)
- 1623 – Kara Davud Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. ?)
- 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch physician, merchant, and founder and first ruler of the Cape Colony (b. 1619)
- 1730 – Antonio Vallisneri, Italian medical doctor, physician and naturalist (b. 1661)
- 1799 – Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Austrian herbalist and physician (b. 1722)
- 1802 – Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, French astronomer (b. 1718)
- 1803 – Sylvain Maréchal, French poet, philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1750)
- 1862 – John Tyler, American politician and 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
- 1869 – Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and third Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1812)
- 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
- 1882 – Naile Sultan, daughter of Abdulmecid (b. 1856)
- 1886 – Sadık Pasha, one of the Polish founders of Polonezköy (b. 1804)
- 1890 – Amadeo I, King of Spain (b. 1845)
- 1896 – Charles Floquet, French politician (b. 1828)
- 1899 – William Edwin Brooks, Irish ornithologist (b. 1828)
- 1906 – Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin, Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Bolsheviks) (b. 1873)
- 1918 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian publisher and writer (b. 1846)
- 1925 – JME McTaggart, British idealist thinker (b. 1866)
- 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1949 – Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman and fraudster (b. 1882)
- 1956 – Makbule Atadan, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s sister (b. 1885)
- 1960 – Nahid Sırrı Örik, Turkish writer (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Linné Ahlstrand, American model and actress (b. 1936)
- 1969 – Hans Freyer is a German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)
- 1970 – David O. McKay is the 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
- 1970 – Mehmet Mümtaz Tarhan, Turkish lawyer and politician (former Governor of Istanbul) (b. 1908)
- 1975 – Arif Müfid Mansel, Turkish archaeologist (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Carl Zuckmayer, German playwright (b. 1896)
- 1985 – Davut Sulari, Turkish folk music artist (b. 1925)
- 1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist and travel writer (b. 1940)
- 1990 – Rusty Hamer is an American actor (b. 1947)
- 1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect and activist (b. 1897)
- 2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of DR Congo (assassinated in his home in Kinshasa by one of his personal guards) (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Reha Oğuz Türkkan, Turkish lawyer, historian, writer and Turkologist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Evin Esen, Turkish actress (b. 1949)
- 2015 – Alberto Nisman, Argentinian prosecutor (b. 1963)
- 2016- Asha Patil, Indian actress (b.1936)
- 2016 – Leila Alaoui, Moroccan-French photographer and video artist (b. 1982)
- 2016 – António de Almeida Santos, Portuguese socialist politician (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Glenn Frey, American rock guitarist, singer, composer, and actor (b. 1948)
- 2016 – Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1929)
- 2017 – Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator (b. 1919)
- 2017 – Red Adams, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Yosl Bergner, Israeli painter of Austrian-Jewish origin (b. 1920)
- 2017 – Ion Besoiu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Ronan Fanning, Irish historian (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Ymer Pampuri, Albanian weightlifter (b. 1944)
- 2017 – Roberta Peters, American soprano and opera singer (b. 1930)
- 2018 – John Barton, English theatre director (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Wallis Grahn, Swedish actress (b. 1945)
- 2019 – John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985)
- 2019 – Dale Dodrill, Former American football player and businessman (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Cees Haast, Dutch cyclist (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Etienne Vermeersch, Belgian philosopher, activist and former academic (b. 1934)
- 2019 – Ivan Vutsov, former Bulgarian international footballer and coach (b. 1939)
- 2020 – Urs Egger, Swiss film, television director and journalist (b. 1953)
- 2020 – Petr Pokorný, Czech Protestant clergyman, educator and writer (b. 1933)
- 2021 – Jean-Pierre Bacri, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1951)
- 2021 – Carlos Burga, Peruvian professional boxer (b. 1952)
- 2021 – Nombulelo Hermans, South African politician (b. 1970)
- 2021 – Lubomir Kavalek, Czech-American chess player (b. 1943)
- 2021 – Maria Koterbska, Polish singer (b. 1924)
- 2021 – Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu, 23rd generation Ottoman prince. Son of Prince Mehmet Selim Efendi, son of Abdulhamid II, son of Prince Mehmet Abdülkerim Efendi (b. 1930)
- 2021 – Jimmie Rodgers, American folk-pop singer (b. 1933)
- 2022 – Paco Gento, Former Spanish international footballer (b. 1933)
- 2022 – Jordan Michallet, French rugby union player (b. 1993)
- 2022 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress (b. 1942)
- 2022 – Peter Robbins, American child actor and voiceover artist (b. 1956)
- 2023 – Denis Monastirsky, Ukrainian lawyer, politician and Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (b. 1980)
- 2023 – Marcel Zanini, Turkish-French jazz musician (b. 1923)