Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 18

This is a list of selected January 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Images

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  Satellite view of the Hawaiian Islands
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  Emperor Huizong
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  Jim Thorpe
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  Wilhelm I of Germany
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  Flag of the German Empire, 1871–1918
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  Elizabeth of York
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  Houses at Kealakekua, Sandwich Islands, c. 1779
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  Marion Barry
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  Legionella colonies under ultraviolet light

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day in Thailand (1593);	refimprove section
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins	lots of CN tags
Paryaya Festival inUdupi City, Karnataka, India (2024);}}	refimprove
1126 – Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty of China abdicated in favour of his son Qinzong.	refimprove section
1486 – Elizabeth of York married King Henry VII, becoming queen consort of England.	Yellow "tone" banner
1778 – English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.	refimprove
1866 – Frederick Binks, the first student, arrives at Wesley College in Melbourne, which is today one of the largest schools in Australia by enrolment.	Citations needed, problems with verifying blurb.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened to set the peace terms for the Central Powers.	refimprove section
1955 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army engaged the National Revolutionary Army on the Yijiangshan Islands, one of the last strongholds of nationalist forces near mainland China.	no footnotes
1977 – The CDC announced that the lung infection Legionnaires' disease is caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.	Too much uncited
2003 – Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes.	needs more footnotes
Damaris Cudworth Masham |b|1659	source in the article states she was born in 1658, not 1659, and there is some confusion about which is correct; article doesn't clarify either way
Marthinus Nikolaas Ras |b|1853|	Orange tagged for notability and citations. Article states birthdate is uncertain

Eligible

• 474 – The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.
• 1535 – Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.
• 1788 – The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1915 – Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
• 1943 – World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.
• 1958 – Members of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, which turned into an armed confrontation between the two.
• 1958 – Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
• 1983 – Singaporean communist activist Tan Chay Wa was executed, leading to a much-publicised trial of his brother for engraving 'subversive' material on the gravestone.
• 1990 – In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
• Born/died: | Tamar of Georgia |d|1213| Jobst of Moravia |d|1411| Jean-François de Surville |b|1717| Jeanne Quinault |d|1783| César Cui |b|1835| Edward Bulwer-Lytton |d|1873| Aleksandra Ekster |b|1882| Goose Tatum |d|1967| Vinod Kambli |b|1972| N. T. Rama Rao |d|1996

Notes

• Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and Second voyage of James Cook both appear on January 17, so Hawaiian Islands should not appear in the same year
• First Fleet appears on January 26, so Botany Bay should not appear in the same year

January 18: Laba Festival in China (2024)

United Nations Memorial Cemetery

• 1871 – A number of previously independent states united to form the German Empire, with Wilhelm I as emperor.
• 1951 – Construction began on the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured), the only United Nations cemetery in the world, in Busan, South Korea.
• 1956 – Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
• 1969 – Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupation.
• 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.

• Isabella Jagiellon (b. 1519)
• Elena Arizmendi Mejía (b. 1884)
• Philippe Starck (b. 1949)
• Bruce Chatwin (d. 1989)

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• January 18
• January 19