January 18th, 1968

Born on January 18th, 1968

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 20,000 days old!

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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

Born on January 18th, 1968

56

Antonio de la Torre

Spanish actor

*January 18th, 1968, Málaga

56

Lynne Neagle

Welsh Labour & Co-operative politician and Member of the Senedd for Torfaen

*January 18th, 1968, Merthyr Tydfil

56

Dragana Mirković

Serbian pop-folk singer

*January 18th, 1968, Kasidol

56

David Ayer

American screenwriter, film producer, and director

*January 18th, 1968, Champaign

56

George Hucks

Australian wheelchair rugby player

*January 18th, 1968, Port Augusta

56

Pierre Charvet

French composer

*January 18th, 1968, Montpellier

56

Armin Pongs

German author

*January 18th, 1968, Rheydt

56

Armin Falk

German economist

*January 18th, 1968, Bergisch Gladbach

56

Ann Battelle

American freestyle skier

*January 18th, 1968, Yonkers

56

Caren Sonn

German hurdler

*January 18th, 1968, Ulm

56

Viktor Moroz

Ukrainian footballer and coach

*January 18th, 1968, Kyiv

56

Trevor Ward

English cricketer (born 1968)

*January 18th, 1968, Farningham

56

Dan Vapid

American musician

*January 18th, 1968, Chicago

56

Siniša Školneković

Croatian water polo player

*January 18th, 1968, Varaždin

56

Esteban de la Fuente

Argentine basketball player

*January 18th, 1968, Buenos Aires

56

Irina Kuhnt

Field hockey player

*January 18th, 1968, Bad Harzburg

56

Frank Quitely

Artist

*January 18th, 1968, Glasgow

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

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

55

Dave Bautista

American actor and former professional wrestler

*January 18th, 1969, Washington, D.C.

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

61

Martin O'Malley

American politician

*January 18th, 1963, Washington, D.C.

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

55

Mihkel Raud

Estonian writer, blogger, playwright, TV personality, singer, guitarist, journalist and politician

*January 18th, 1969, Tallinn

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

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Leap year

Yes: 1968 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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