Birthdates Which Occur on January 18:
1543 Alfonso Ferrabosco composer
1641 Fran‡ois Michel le Tellier French statesman (Marquis de Louvois)
1657 Hendrik Casimir II Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau)
1685 Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch Classical prof, baptized
1689 Charles de Montesquieu France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes)
1726 Hendrik D F L prince of Prussia/diplomat
1732 Jean-Guillain Cardon composer
1751 Ferdinand Kauer composer
1779 Peter Roget thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
1782 Daniel Webster Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer
1793 William Henry Havergal composer
1795 Anna Paulowna Romanova monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I
1809 Richard Caswell Gatlin Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
1815 James Chesnut Jr Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
and Richard Yates Gov MC (Union), died in 1873
1817 Jacques Gregoir composer
1818 Johannes van Vloten Dutch literary/theologist
1820 Abraham Buford Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1829 Louis van Haecke Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge)
1831 Edward Ferrero Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1835 C‚sar A Cui Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
and Jan van Droogenbroeck Flemish poet
1840 Austin Dobson England, poet/critic/biographer
and Ernst Rudorff composer
1841 Emmanuel Chabrier France, composer (Le Roi Malgr‚ Lui)
1849 Edmund Barton 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
1854 Thomas A Watson needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1856 Daniel Nathan Hale Williams surgeon (1st open heart operation)
and John Hyatt Brewer composer
1857 Otto von Below German commandant (WW I)
1861 Hans Goldschmidt German chemist
and Raymond Huntington Woodman composer
1867 Rub‚n Dar¡o national poet (Nicaragua)
1869 Willem De Vreese Flemish linguist/biblographer
1872 Paul Leautaud [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
1878 Hendrik Baels Belgian politician
1879 Henri-Honor‚ Giraud French general/member of parliament
1880 Paul Ehrenfest Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1881 Gaston Gallimard French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908]
1882 Alan Alexander Milne English author (Winnie-the-Pooh)
and Jacob Clay Dutch philospher/phycist (Mesones)
and Sylvia Pankhurst English feminist
1886 Peter Alma painter/graphic artist
1892 Oliver Hardy Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1893 John Lawrence Seymour composer
and Jorge Guill‚n Valladolid Spain, poet/critic (C ntico, Final)
1894 Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff Dutch parapsycholoist
1896 Hans H Holm Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)
19-- Joe Arroyo spanish entertainer
and Jos‚ Luis Perales Spain, spanish singer (Con El Paso del Tiempo)
and Mike Marquis rocker (Kik Tracee-Hot Wire)
and Ray Dolby inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
and Sharon Mitchell XXX actress (Joy, Blood & Sand, Lady Lust)
1901 Arie Querido Dutch social psychiatrist
1903 Berthold Goldschmidt composer
1904 Cary Grant actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
and Henri-Georges Adam French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)
1905 Chick Chandler Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family)
1906 Hans Aeschbacher Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours)
1907 Janos Ferencsik Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
1908 Albert P Morano (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
and Jacob Bronowsky British mathematician/cultural historian
1911 Gabor Darvas composer
1912 Ren‚ Gabri‰ls Belgian billiard pro (7 World/9 European championships)
and William Sansom English writer (Loving Eye)
1913 Danny Kaye Bkln NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1918 Ton Brandsteder CEO/founder (Sony Nederland)
1919 Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas Santiago Chile, composer
1922 Constance Moore Sioux City Iowa, actress (Window on Main Street)
and Yehezkiel Braun composer
1925 Roepie Kruize Dutch field hockey player (Olympic-Bronze-48/Silver-52)
1932 Robert Anton Wilson US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 David Bellamy English botanist/tv-program maker
and John Boorman producer/dir (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz)
and V Y Bugrov cosmonaut
1935 Raymond Briggs English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
1939 Bernard Glassman NY, Zen teacher, head of the Zen Center of NY
1941 Bobby Goldsboro Marianna Fla, singer (Honey)
and David Ruffin Miss, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
and Iva Zanicchi
1943 Dave Greene rocker
1944 Larry "Legs" Smith rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman)
and Relus ter Beek Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)
1946 Katia Ricclarelli actress (Falstaff, Otello, Turandot)
1948 Takeshi Kitano
1950 Claudia de Colombia Bogato Columbia, spanish singer (Yo Creo En Ti)
and John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science)
1953 Brett Hudson Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1955 Johannes AM "Hans" van Tongeren Dutch actor (Hunk)
and Kevin Costner LA Calif, actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham)
and Mable Fergerson LA Calif, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1956 Mark Collie Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
1957 Tom Bailey rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1961 Mark D Messier Edmonton Alberta, NHL Center (Edmonton, NY Rangers)
1962 Alison Arngrim actress (Nellie-Little House of the Prairie)
1967 M C Tab [Sharon Richard], NYC, rapper
1974 Devon Odessa actor (Girl of Limberlost)
Deaths Which Occured January 18:
1367 Pedro I king of Portugal (1357-67), dies
1479 Louis IX the Rich, duke of Bayern (U of Ingolstadt), dies
1580 Antonio Scandello Italian composer (Passion of Johannes), dies at 63
1659 Benedikt Lechler composer, dies at 64
1664 Moise Amyrault French theologist/vicar, dies
1666 Adriaen A Bloemaert landscape painter, dies at about 56
1677 John A Van Riebeeck founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1730 Peter II czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1760 Claudio Casciolini composer, dies at 62
1769 Hakuin Ekaku Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1854 Juda Turo American philanthropist, dies
1862 John Tyler 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
1875 Joseph Philbrick Webster composer, dies at 55
1884 Arthur Ransome English author (Swallows & Amazons), dies
1886 Michal Czajchovski [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies
1890 Amadeus I FM king of Spain (1870-73), dies
1902 Filippo Marchetti composer, dies at 70
1913 Edmond R H Regout industrialist/politician, dies
1918 Bohuslav Jeremias composer, dies at 58
1919 John CF under English king George V, dies at 13
1921 Adolf von Hildebrand German sculptor, dies
1923 Wallace Reid actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1936 Rudyard Kipling author (Giunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies in England
1940 Kazimierz P Tetmajer Polish writer/poet (Het jonge Polen), dies
1954 Sydney Greenstreet actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1962 Raymond Moulaert composer, dies at 86
1966 Kathleen Norris US author, dies at 85
1967 Albert Conti actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79
Barney Ross welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
Harry Antrim actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
Reese "Goose" Tatum basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
Simon FHJ Berkelbach of Sprenkel vicar/theologist, dies
1968 Bert Wheeler actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72
John Ridgely actor (Air Force, Possessed, Biug Sleep), dies at 58
Lee Tracy actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69
1970 David McKay Mormon president, dies at 96
1971 Catherine Calvert actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
1972 Rudolf Wittelsbach composer, dies at 69
1976 Sonia Dresdel actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67
1977 Paul Nordoff composer, dies at 68
Yvonne Printemps actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
1978 Carl Betz actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67
Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky composer, dies at 68
1979 Cyril Mockridge composer, dies at 82
1980 Cecil Beaton British photographer, dies at 76
1982 Burnet Corwin Tuthill composer, dies at 93
Ram¢n (J) Sender (Garc‚s) Spanish writer, dies
Trent Lehman actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 20
1984 Malcolm H Kerr 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead
1985 Mahmoud Taha Sudanese Moslem leader, hung at 76
Wilfrid Brambell actor (Hard Day's Night, Boys), dies at 72
1986 Claire James actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
1989 Bruce Chatwin British writer, dies
1990 Melanie Appleby rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 24
1991 Hamilton Fish congressman (NY), dies
Lillian Bond actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
Nita Krebs actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
1992 John Remme entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
Tom Elios entertainer, dies
1993 M Eleonore Lippits 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies
Mia Meijer screenwriter (Machine Kind), dies
1995 Adolph FJ Butenandt German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1996 Minnesota Fats billiard hustler, dies
Holidays Which Occur January 18:
Tunisia Revolution Day (1956)
Religious Observances on January 18:
Ang, Luth, RC Commem of the Confession of St Peter the Apostle
Lutheran Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
RC-Mexico Commemoration of St Prisca, virgin/martyr at 13
RC Feast of Blessed Beatrix d'Este
RC Feast of St Leobardus
1270 RC Commemoration of St Margaret of Hungary
Things to Remember for January 18:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
2 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
2 Days Delta Cancrid meteor shower, radiant in Cancer, west of Praesepe
4 Days Coma-Berenicid meteor shower, radiant in Coma Berenices
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
[Ancient Rome] a d xv Kal Feb
Highlights in History Which Occur January 18:
336 St Mark begins his reign as Catholic Pope
350 General Maxentius drives out Western Romania emperor Constans
532 Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 Great monarch Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
1650 French Prince Louis II of Cond‚ captured
1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam
1691 English king Willem III travels to Hague
1701 Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia
1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 San Jose California, founded
1778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1788 English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony
1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
and governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
1817 San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1850 British blockade Pir‘us, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
1854 Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW M‚xico
1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed
1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
1869 Elegant Calif Theater opens in SF
1871 German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #221 Eos
1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1895 Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
and British troops occupy Kumasi
1900 Jan Blockx's "T˜l Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #468 Lina
and Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves the communier
1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #501 Urhixidur
1905 French govt of Combes falls
1908 Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #677 Aaltje
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1913 Turk-Greek sea battle
1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1919 WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1921 William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
and M Wolf discovers asteroid #972 Cohnia
1923 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1929 Stalin bans Trotsky from Politburo
1930 -27øF (-33øC), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
and Sjostakovitsj' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1933 White Sands National Monument, NM established
1934 Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
and G Reiss discovers asteroid #1299 Mertona
1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1523 Pieksamaki
1942 Nazi's arrests French Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
1943 Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
and Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
and Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
and US rations bread & metal
and Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
1944 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1945 Warsaw freed by soviet army
1947 Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates
and Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
1948 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
and Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1949 "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
and 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
and South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
1950 Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London
1951 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
and Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
and NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
and NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
1954 Fanfani forms Italian govt
1956 German DR forms own army (National Volksarmee)
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1958 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
1960 US & Japan draw joint defense treaty
1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote &
parliament by a single seat
1962 Southern University closed due to demonstrations
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11 city skate
1964 Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
and Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1965 H L de Vries appointed governor of Suriname
1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
and Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1968 Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1970 Hasse B”rjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
1971 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
and John Cleese's final episode on Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC
1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
and Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1975 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
and L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2144 Marietta, #2296, #2448 & #2965
1976 Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers-21 Dallas Cowboys-17 in Miami
1978 Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
and Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
and Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
and Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they
were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1984 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
and NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
and Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
and IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
and Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
1991 Asteroid 1991 BA, í 10 m, comes within 170,000 km of Earth
and Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years
and Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
and US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
and WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
1992 Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui
and Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
and NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1996 Announcement of divorce of Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley
1947 Small river steamer sank on the Yangtze River killing 400 people.
Your Special Reminders for January 18:
18th day of year with 347 remaining (Numerology = 1)
and 1982 0øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1990 66øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
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