What are the important events that happened on January 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 18 is the 18^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 5, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,737,158,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octadecagon’ day.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 11 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,411 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 18 Historical Events

• 1903 –
  President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
• 1913 –
  A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
• 1915 –
  Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
• 1916 –
  A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
• 1919 –
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
• 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).
• 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.
• 2002 –
  Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
• 2007 –
  The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.

Who were born on January 18?

• 1743 –
  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
• 1910 –
  Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1993)
• 1935 –
  Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
• 1938 –
  Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
• 1949 –
  Philippe Starck, French designer
• 1954 –
  Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler
• 1961 –
  Bobby Hansen, American basketball player
• 1961 –
  Jeff Yagher, American actor
• 1976 –
  Damien Leith, Irish-born Australian singer, winner of Australian Idol 2006
• 1980 –
  Robert Green, English footballer

Who died on January 18?

• 1862 –
  John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1896 –
  Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
• 1954 –
  Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
• 1966 –
  Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
• 1975 –
  Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1978 –
  Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
• 1989 –
  Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
• 2008 –
  Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
• 2009 –
  Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
• 2011 –
  Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)