Historical events on January 18
JANUARY 18, 1535
Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.
Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
JANUARY 18, 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.
In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime. A typical
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JANUARY 18, 1951
Construction began in Busan, South Korea, on the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured), the only United Nations cemetery in the world.
Busan, officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million as
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JANUARY 18, 1788
The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat or ship used to service or support other boats or
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JANUARY 18, 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.
The Lumbee, also known as People of the Dark Water, are a mixed-race community primarily located in Robeson County, North Carolina, which
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JANUARY 18, 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.
The International Olympic Committee is the international, non-governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de
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JANUARY 18, 474
The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.
Leo II, called the Younger, briefly reigned as a child emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire from 473 to 474. He was
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JANUARY 18, 1943
World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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JANUARY 18, 1969
Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupations.
The University of Tokyo is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university
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JANUARY 18, 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'.
Mojtaba Mir-Lohi, better known as Navvab Safavi, was a Shia cleric of Pahlavi Iran and founder of the Fada'iyan-e Islam group. He
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JANUARY 18, 1871
A number of previously independent states united to form the German Empire, with Wilhelm I as German Emperor.
The unification of Germany was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of
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JANUARY 18, 2019
An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
On 18 January 2019, a pipeline transporting gasoline exploded in the town of Tlahuelilpan, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. The blast
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JANUARY 18, 1915
Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
Marquess Ōkuma Shigenobu was a Japanese politician who served as the prime minister of Japan in 1898, and from 1914 to 1916.
JANUARY 18, 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.
William Eldon O'Ree is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is widely recognized for being the
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JANUARY 18, 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.
The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was active
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