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The following events took place on January 18. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.

• 1945

  World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
• 1955

  Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan Islands is fought.
• 1958

  Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
• 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.
• 1967

  Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1969

  United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
• 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.
• 1976

  Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
• 1977

  Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.
• 1977

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

  SFR Yugoslavia’s Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1978

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

  The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
• 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).
• 1983

  The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family.
• 1990

  Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
• 1993

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
• 1997

  In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill three Spanish aid workers, three soldiers and seriously wound one other.
• 1997

  Børge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
• 2000

  The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
• 2002

  Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
• 2003

  A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
• 2005

  The Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
• 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.
• 2009

  Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces’s offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
• 2012

  A series of coordinated actions take place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act.

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