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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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1486 – Elizabeth of York married Henry VII of England, becoming Queen consort. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1915 – Japanese Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 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 mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella. | lead needs to be rewritten |
| 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. | {{more footnotes}} |
Eligible
- 1126 – Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty of China abdicated the throne in favour of his son Qinzong.
- 1884 – Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent trial, which led to the legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened in Versailles, France, to set the peace terms for the Central Powers.
- 1958 – African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey.
- 1990 – In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
January 18: Royal Thai Armed Forces Day in Thailand (1591); the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
- 1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.
- 1778 – English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1866 – Wesley College, the largest school in Australia by enrolment, was established in Melbourne.
- 1871 – A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with Prussian King Wilhelm I (pictured) being proclaimed as its first Emperor.
- 1943 – World War II: As part of Operation Iskra, the Soviet Red Army broke the Siege of Leningrad, opening a narrow land corridor to the city.