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Events on the 18th of January in history

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18 Jan 0336 St. Mark elected Catholic Pope
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18 Jan 0336 St Mark begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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18 Jan 0350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
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18 Jan 0350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
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18 Jan 0474 Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
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18 Jan 0532 Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
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18 Jan 0532 Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
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18 Jan 1126 Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
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18 Jan 1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
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18 Jan 1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
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18 Jan 1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
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18 Jan 1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde
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18 Jan 1535 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
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18 Jan 1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
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18 Jan 1562 Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
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18 Jan 1591 King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
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18 Jan 1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
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18 Jan 1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
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18 Jan 1650 French Prince Louis II of Cond
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18 Jan 1670 Henry Morgan captures Panama.
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18 Jan 1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam
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18 Jan 1691 English king Willem III travels to The Hague
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18 Jan 1701 Frederik I / Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned King / Queen of Prussia
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18 Jan 1701 Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
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18 Jan 1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
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18 Jan 1777 San Jose California, founded
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18 Jan 1777 San Jose CA founded
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18 Jan 1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
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18 Jan 1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
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18 Jan 1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
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18 Jan 1795 Governor/Viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
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18 Jan 1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
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18 Jan 1817 San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes
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18 Jan 1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
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18 Jan 1850 British blockade Pir
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18 Jan 1854 Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW M
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18 Jan 1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed
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18 Jan 1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie, South Carolina
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18 Jan 1865 Battle of Fort Moultrie SC
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18 Jan 1866 Wesley College, Melbourne, is established.
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18 Jan 1869 Elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco CA
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18 Jan 1871 Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
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18 Jan 1871 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
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18 Jan 1884 Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
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18 Jan 1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
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18 Jan 1886 Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
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18 Jan 1895 Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
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18 Jan 1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
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18 Jan 1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
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18 Jan 1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
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18 Jan 1896 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY
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18 Jan 1900 Jan Blockx's "T
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18 Jan 1901 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
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18 Jan 1903 United States President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.[citation needed]
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18 Jan 1905 French government of Combes falls
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18 Jan 1908 Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair" premieres
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18 Jan 1911 Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
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18 Jan 1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
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18 Jan 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
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18 Jan 1913 First 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.
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18 Jan 1913 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
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18 Jan 1915 Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
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18 Jan 1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
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18 Jan 1916 A 611-gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
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18 Jan 1919 Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
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18 Jan 1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
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18 Jan 1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
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18 Jan 1919 WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
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18 Jan 1921 William Archer's "Green Goddess" premieres in New York City NY
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18 Jan 1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy the Rotunda in Dublin
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18 Jan 1923 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
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18 Jan 1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
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18 Jan 1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
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18 Jan 1929 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
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18 Jan 1930 -27
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18 Jan 1930 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "The Nose" premieres in Leningrad
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18 Jan 1933 White Sands National Monument, NM established
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18 Jan 1934 Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End" premieres in New York City NY
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18 Jan 1938 Bradman scores 104* for South Australia vs New South Wales at the SCG
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18 Jan 1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Hall of Fame
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18 Jan 1939 South African wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs New South Wales
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18 Jan 1941 World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
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18 Jan 1942 Nazis arrest journalists Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
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18 Jan 1943 US rations bread and metal
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18 Jan 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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18 Jan 1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad
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18 Jan 1943 Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
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18 Jan 1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
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18 Jan 1944 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
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18 Jan 1944 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
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18 Jan 1944 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
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18 Jan 1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army
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18 Jan 1945 World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
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18 Jan 1945 World War II: Liberation of the Budapest Ghetto by the Red Army.
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18 Jan 1947 "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
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18 Jan 1947 Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
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18 Jan 1947 "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY after 831 performances
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18 Jan 1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
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18 Jan 1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
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18 Jan 1948 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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18 Jan 1949 "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
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18 Jan 1949 South African Reverend Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
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18 Jan 1949 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
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18 Jan 1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
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18 Jan 1950 Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed" premieres in London
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18 Jan 1951 1st use of lie detector in the Netherlands
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18 Jan 1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
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18 Jan 1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against German Democratic Republic"
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18 Jan 1951 NFL takes control of the failing Baltimore Colts
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18 Jan 1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
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18 Jan 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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18 Jan 1954 Fanfani forms Italian government
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18 Jan 1955 Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan Islands is fought.
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18 Jan 1956 German Democratic Republic forms own army (National People's Army)
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18 Jan 1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes
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18 Jan 1958 Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
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18 Jan 1958 1st black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
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18 Jan 1959 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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18 Jan 1960 Capital 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.
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18 Jan 1960 US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
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18 Jan 1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
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18 Jan 1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
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18 Jan 1962 Southern University closed due to demonstrations
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18 Jan 1963 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10 59)
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18 Jan 1964 Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
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18 Jan 1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)
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18 Jan 1964 Beatles 1st appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
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18 Jan 1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch Governor of Suriname
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18 Jan 1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
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18 Jan 1967 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal
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18 Jan 1967 Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
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18 Jan 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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18 Jan 1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
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18 Jan 1967 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montr
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18 Jan 1967 Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
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18 Jan 1968 "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
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18 Jan 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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18 Jan 1968 Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing" premieres in New York City NY
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18 Jan 1968 "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 286 performances
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18 Jan 1969 United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
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18 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
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18 Jan 1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
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18 Jan 1970 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 16-13
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18 Jan 1970 Hasse B
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18 Jan 1971 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
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18 Jan 1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC
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18 Jan 1973 Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
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18 Jan 1973 Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
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18 Jan 1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
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18 Jan 1974 A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
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18 Jan 1974 Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
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18 Jan 1975 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
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18 Jan 1975 "The Jeffersons" spin-off from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
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18 Jan 1976 Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
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18 Jan 1976 Super Bowl X Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, Wide Receiver
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18 Jan 1977 SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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18 Jan 1977 Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
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18 Jan 1977 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
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18 Jan 1977 Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
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18 Jan 1978 The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
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18 Jan 1978 The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
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18 Jan 1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, vs Pakistan Karachi
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18 Jan 1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
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18 Jan 1978 Roof of 3-year-old Civic Center in Hartford CT collapses (no injuries)
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18 Jan 1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America" Florence, Oregon
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18 Jan 1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3
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18 Jan 1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1
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18 Jan 1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
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18 Jan 1981 Phil 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).
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18 Jan 1981 Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
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18 Jan 1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
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18 Jan 1983 The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
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18 Jan 1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
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18 Jan 1984 80th Islander and 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll and Bossy) 9-1 win
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18 Jan 1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
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18 Jan 1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
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18 Jan 1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
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18 Jan 1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For" hits #1
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18 Jan 1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
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18 Jan 1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
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18 Jan 1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder
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18 Jan 1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
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18 Jan 1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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18 Jan 1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
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18 Jan 1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
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18 Jan 1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
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18 Jan 1990 Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
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18 Jan 1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
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18 Jan 1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress
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18 Jan 1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 minutes
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18 Jan 1991 WLAF's New York Knights become New York-New Jersey Knights
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18 Jan 1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
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18 Jan 1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
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18 Jan 1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years
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18 Jan 1992 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Philadelphia
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18 Jan 1992 Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui
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18 Jan 1992 49th Golden Globes
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18 Jan 1992 43rd NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Philadelphia
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18 Jan 1992 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
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18 Jan 1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
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18 Jan 1993 West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
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18 Jan 1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
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18 Jan 1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
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18 Jan 1995 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs Kerala
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18 Jan 1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in New York
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18 Jan 1996 Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
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18 Jan 1997 Børge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
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18 Jan 1997 In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill three Spanish aid workers, three soldiers and seriously wound one other.
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18 Jan 1997 47th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena
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18 Jan 1998 "Ragtime, " opens at Ford Theater, New York City
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18 Jan 1998 ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
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18 Jan 1998 UCP Telethon
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18 Jan 1998 Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
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18 Jan 1998 Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
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18 Jan 1998 ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando FL (West beats East 102-73)
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18 Jan 1998 55th Golden Globes Awards
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18 Jan 1998 48th NHL All-Star Game North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
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18 Jan 1998 "Ragtime" opens at Ford Theater New York City NY
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18 Jan 2000 The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
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18 Jan 2002 Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
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18 Jan 2003 A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
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18 Jan 2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
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18 Jan 2007 The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
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18 Jan 2009 Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
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18 Jan 2012 A series of coordinated actions take place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act.
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