18 Januar

The **18t o Januar** is the 18t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 347 days ti come (348 in lowp years).

## Hans

* 1486 - Henry VII o Ingland marries Elizabeth o York.
* 1778 - James Cook lands in Hawaii.
* 1871 - The German Empire is foondit.
* 1915 - Japan issues its "21 Demands" tae the Republic o Cheenae in a bid tae increase its pouer in East Asie.
* 1934 - A yirdquauk in Bihar, Indie, kills 10,000 fowk.
* 1943 - First uprisin o Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
* 1977 - A train crash at Granville, Sydney, Australie, kills 83 fowk.
* 2002 - The Sierra Leone Ceevil War is declarit ower.
* 2003 - Bush fires aroond Canberra, Australie, reach their hicht.
* 2005 - The Airbus A380 is unveiled in Toulouse.
* 2007 - Hurricane Kyrill devastates much o North, Wast an Central Europe. Germany an the Unitit Kinrick are particularly badly hit, as 43 are kilt in total across the affectit areas.
* 2009 - A ceasfire is reached in the 3-week conflict in Israel an Gaza.
* 2012 - The Inglis Wikipaedia blacks oot for 24 hours tae protests against the SOPA an PIPA laws proposit bi the Unitit States Congress.
* 2017 - An avalanche, efter twa yirdquauks, buries a hottle in Abruzzo, Italy.
* 2018 - A bus fire naur Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kills at least 52 fowk.
* 2019 - A fuel pipeline splodes in Tlahuelilpan in Central Mexico's Hidalgo state, killin at least 85 fowk.

## Births

* 1602 - Robert Stuart, Duke o Kintyre an Lorne (d. 27 Mey 1602)
* 1630 - Andrew Balfour, Scots botanist, doctor, antiquary an beuk collector (d. 1694)
* 1689 - Montesquieu, French lawyer an philosopher (d. 1755)
* 1782 - Daniel Webster, 14t an 19t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1852)
* 1849 - Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1920)
* 1882 - A. A. Milne, Inglis writer (d. 1956)
* 1892 - Oliver Hardy, American actor an comedian (d. 1957)
* 1904 - Cary Grant, Inglis-American actor (d. 1986)
* 1921 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American pheesicist (d. 2015)
* 1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
* 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, umwhile Preses o Sooth Korea
* 1933 - Ray Dolby, American ingineer (d. 2013)
* 1937 - John Hume, Northren Erse politeecian an Nobel laureate (d. 2020)
* 1944 - Alexander Van der Bellen, Preses o Austrick
* 1944 - Paul Keating, 24t Prime Meenister o Australie
* 1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor an director
* 1960 - Sir Mark Rylance, Inglis actor
* 1963 - Martin O'Malley, American politeecian
* 1971 - Pep Guardiola, Catalan fitbaw manager
* 1979 - Willie Collum, Scots fitbaw referee
* 1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese fitbawer
* 1979 - Leo Varadkar, Erse Taoiseach
* 1980 - Jason Segel, American actor
* 1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian fitbawer
* 1986 - Maarja Kivi, Estonie sangster
* 1988 - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
* 1997 - Greg Kiltie, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 474 - Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
* 1862 - John Tyler, 10t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1790)
* 1865 - James Beaumont Neilson, Scots inventor (b. 1792)
* 1890 - Amadeo I o Spain, Keeng o Spain (b. 1845)
* 1933 - John McCartney, Scots fitbawer (b. 1866)
* 1936 − Rudyard Kipling, Inglis writer (b. 1865)
* 1941 - Bernard Haigh, Scots ingineer (b. 1884)
* 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, Inglis politeecian (b. 1906)
* 1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (b. 1896)
* 1982 - Huang Xianfan, Cheenese polymath (b. 1899)
* 2010 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian sangster (b. 1946)
* 2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politeecian (b. 1915)
* 2017 - John Little, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)

## Halidays
* Ryal Thai Airmed Forces Day
* Warld Releegion Day

## References