History Events on January 18

King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
#Henry_VII_of_England

Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
#Field_hockey

Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
#Pope_Pius_IV

Henry Morgan captures Panama.
#Henry_Morgan

The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
#Euphronios_Krater
Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
#Sierra_Leone_Civil_War

Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
#BASE_jumping

A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
#2003_Canberra_bushfires

Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
#Emperor_Huizong_of_Song

Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
#Albert_DeSalvo

James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
#James_Cook

First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
#First_Balkan_War

Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
#Marion_Barry

The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
#European_Court_of_Human_Rights

Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
#Jan_Willem_Janssens

Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
#Capital_Airlines_Flight_20

World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
#World_War_I

Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
#Christianity_in_Lebanon
Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
#Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski

A bus catches fire on the Samara-Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.
#Samara

SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedi?, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
#Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia

Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
#Leo_II_(emperor)

Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
#Nika_riots

Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
#Twenty-One_Demands

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
#Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
#Frederick_I_of_Prussia

Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
#Willie_O'Ree

The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
#International_Olympic_Committee

World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
#Kraków

An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
#X-ray

World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
#World_War_II

The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
#Airbus_A380

The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
#First_Fleet

United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
#United_Airlines_Flight_266

King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
#Naresuan

Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
#Granville_rail_disaster