18 January
Notable Births
Anastasia Zakharova
b. 2002
Russian tennis player (born 2002)
Ki-Jana Hoever
b. 2002
Dutch footballer (born 2002)
Karim Adeyemi
b. 2002
German footballer (born 2002)
Karan Brar
b. 1999
American actor (born 1999)
Tee Higgins
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Gary Trent Jr.
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Aitana Bonmatí
b. 1998
Spanish footballer (born 1998)
Lisandro Martínez
b. 1998
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Éder Militão
b. 1998
Brazilian footballer (born 1998)
Emil Audero
b. 1997
Indonesian footballer (born 1997)
Denis Malgin
b. 1997
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1997)
Bryce Alford
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Leonard Fournette
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Samu Castillejo
b. 1995
Spanish footballer (born 1995)
Max Fried
b. 1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Kang Ji-young
b. 1994
South Korean singer and actress (born 1994)
Ilona Kremen
b. 1994
Belarusian tennis player
Sean Keenan (actor)
b. 1993
Australian actor
Juan Fernando Quintero
b. 1993
Colombian footballer (born 1993)
Francesco Bardi
b. 1992
Italian professional footballer
Notable Deaths
Claire van Kampen
d. 2025
English director and composer (1953–2025)
David Crosby
d. 2023
American singer and guitarist (1941–2023)
Paco Gento
d. 2022
Spanish footballer (1933–2022)
Yvette Mimieux
d. 2022
American actress (1942–2022)
André Leon Talley
d. 2022
American fashion journalist (1948–2022)
John Coughlin (figure skater)
d. 2019
American pair skater (1985–2019)
Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
d. 2019
Iraqi archaeologist (1938–2019)
Peter Abrahams
d. 2017
South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017)
Rachael Heyhoe Flint
d. 2017
English female cricketer, businesswoman and life peer
Roberta Peters
d. 2017
American opera singer
Glenn Frey
d. 2016
American rock musician (1948–2016)
T. S. Sinnathuray
d. 2016
Singaporean judge (1930–2016)
Michel Tournier
d. 2016
French writer (1924–2016)
Alberto Nisman
d. 2015
Argentine lawyer and prosecutor (1963–2015)
Piet van der Sanden
d. 2015
Dutch politician and journalist (1924–2015)
Tony Verna
d. 2015
American television producer
Kathryn Abbe
d. 2014
American photographer
Michael Botmang
d. 2014
Nigerian politician (1938–2014)
Dennis Frederiksen
d. 2014
American rock singer (1951–2014)
John Tyler
d. 1862
President of the United States from 1841 to 1845
On This Day in History
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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.
2026 Adamuz rail disaster
2025
The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United States, after the passing of PAFACA.
TikTok
2023
A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.
2023 Brovary helicopter crash
2019
An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.
Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion
2018
A 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.
Samara
2012
More 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 temporarily shut down in protest.
Protests against SOPA and PIPA
2008
The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Euphronios Krater
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. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
1999
2005
The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
Airbus A380
2003
A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2003 Canberra bushfires
2002
The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
Sierra Leone Civil War
1993
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1990
Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
Marion Barry
1988
China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.
China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146
1986
An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, Petén, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.
Aerovías
1983
The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
International Olympic Committee
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).
BASE jumping
1978
The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
European Court of Human Rights
1977
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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1977
Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.
Granville rail disaster