January 18th, 1725

Born on January 18th, 1725

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 18th?

January 18th, 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.

January 18th, 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.

January 18th, 1977

The CDC announced that the lung infection Legionnaires' disease is caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.

January 18th, 1969

Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupation.

January 18th, 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.

January 18th, 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'.

January 18th, 1951

Construction began on the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured), the only United Nations cemetery in the world, in Busan, South Korea.

January 18th, 1943

World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.

January 18th, 1915

Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.

January 18th, 1871

A number of previously independent states united to form the German Empire, with Wilhelm I as emperor.

January 18th, 1788

The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.

January 18th, 1535

Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.

January 18th, 1486

Elizabeth of York married King Henry VII, becoming queen consort of England.

January 18th, 0474

The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.

January 18th, 2023

A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 18th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 18th?

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

59

Johann Gottfried von Hahn

German physician

*January 18th, 1694, Świdnica †May 1st, 1753, Świdnica

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

71

Johann David Köhler

German historian (1684–1755)

*January 18th, 1684, Colditz †March 10th, 1755, Göttingen

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

29

Gloria Groove

Brazilian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, voice actor and drag queen

*January 18th, 1995, São Paulo

27

Rubén Castellanos

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1997, Morales

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

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Born in 1725

73

Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

*April 2nd, 1725, Venice †June 4th, 1798, Vienna

58

James Otis

Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts (1725-1783)

*February 5th, 1725, Barnstable †May 23rd, 1783, Andover

30

Louis Mandrin

French outlaw

*February 11th, 1725, Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs †May 26th, 1755, Valence

64

Abdul Hamid I

Ottoman sultan

*March 20th, 1725, Topkapı Palace †April 7th, 1789, Constantinople

82

John Newton

Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

*July 24th, 1725, London †December 21st, 1807, London

77

Frederik Christian Kaas

Danish naval officer and admiral

*December 1st, 1725, Rybjerg Parish †January 18th, 1803, Copenhagen

70

Beda Angehrn

Swiss catholic priest (1725-1796)

*December 7th, 1725, Amriswil †May 19th, 1796, St. Gallen

74

Jean-Étienne Montucla

French mathematician (*1725 – †1799)

*September 5th, 1725, Lyon †December 18th, 1799, Versailles

65

Johann Salomo Semler

German theologian (1725-1791)

*December 18th, 1725, Saalfeld †March 14th, 1791, Halle (Saale)

83

François Bonnaffé

French shipowner

*December 27th, 1725, Lacaune †August 13th, 1809, Bordeaux

50

Samuel Ward

American farmer, politician, and jurist

*May 25th, 1725, Newport †March 26th, 1776, Philadelphia

17

Theresa Benedicta of Bavaria

German princess

*December 6th, 1725, Munich †March 29th, 1743, Frankfurt

90

Nicolas Desmarest

French geologist

*September 16th, 1725, Soulaines-Dhuys †September 18th, 1815, Paris

68

François Clary

French shipowner

*February 24th, 1725, Marseille †January 20th, 1794, Marseille

78

Murió en las el cacas

El cacas fundo los cacas guines

*January 1st, 1725, Celbridge †January 23rd, 1803, Dublin

49

Robert Clive

British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

*September 25th, 1725, Shropshire †November 22nd, 1774, London

75

Wilhelm Jeremias Müller

German architect

*May 2nd, 1725, Eyrichshof †January 1st, 1801

81

Pasquale Paoli

Corsican politician

*April 6th, 1725, Morosaglia †February 5th, 1807, London

79

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French painter (1725 – 1805)

*August 21st, 1725, Tournus †March 21st, 1805, Paris

79

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

French inventor

*September 25th, 1725, Void-Vacon †October 2nd, 1804, Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1725 is a normal year and no leap year.

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