January 18

Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your January 18 shopping experience:

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2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about

3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a January 18? Wrong! If the January 18 is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.

4. Questions - Got a question about January 18 then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....

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6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your January 18 wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.

7. Feedback - happy with your January 18 then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.

8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the January 18 site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site

9. Contact - got a question about January 18, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.

10. Payment - ready to pay for your January 18, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.

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Events

350 - General Magnentius deposes List of Roman Emperors Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
474 - Leo II (emperor) briefly becomes Byzantine emperor
532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 - Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty) abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong of Song
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV of England.
1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Sweden at Lake Åsunden.
1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro History of Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 - Friedrich I of Prussia becomes King of Prussia.
1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
1778 - James Cook is the first known European ethnic groups to discover the Hawaii, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
1861 - American Civil War - Georgia (U.S. state) joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in secession from the United States.
1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first List of German Kings and Emperors in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire, to the Germans, was known as The Second Reich
1884 - William Price (doctor) attempts to cremation the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) stationed in San Francisco, California harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1912 - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian people explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
1913 - A Hellenic Navy flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter, Missouri in Stone County, Missouri.
1918 - World War I : Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.
1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 opens in Versailles, France. Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Saint Petersburg, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army
1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionellosis.
1977 - Australia's worst Granville railway disaster, Sydney killing 83.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for Psychoactive drug possession in an FBI sting.
1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Day is officially observed in all 50 U.S. state.
1994 - The Cando event, a possible Meteoroid#Bolide impact event in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc cave paintings and engravings over 17,000 years old discovered.
1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spain aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
2001 - The United Kingdom digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.
2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
2003 - A 2003 Canberra bushfires kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 - A United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.
2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill (storm), caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.

Births

885 - Emperor Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
1779 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
1782 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
1813 - Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
1850 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1854 - Thomas A. Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
1856 - Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931)
1867 - Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
1886 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
1888 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
1892 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1908 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
1910 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1983)
1913 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1922 - Bob Bell (actor), American clown (d. 1997)
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
1933 - John Boorman, Irish film director
1933 - Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
1934 - Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
1935 - Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1937 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
1938 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez (racing driver), Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
1943 - Kay Granger, American politician
1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1953 - Brett Hudson, American actor
1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
1955 - Fergus Martin, Irish artist
1956 - Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress
1956 - Tom Bailey, English singer (Thompson Twins)
1961 - Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor
1962 - Alison Arngrim, American actress
1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
1964 - Jane Horrocks, British actress
1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 - Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
1966 - André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1967 - Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1967 - Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1969 - David Bautista, American professional wrestler
1969 - Jim O'Rourke (musician), American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Jonathan Davis, American musician (Korn)
1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1972 - Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
1973 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006
1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
1978 - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
1980 - Robert Green, English footballer
1980 - Julius Peppers, American football player
1981 - Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
1981 - Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
1982 - Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)
1982 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1984 - Michael Kearney, American child prodigy
1984 - Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
1984 - Cho Seung-Hui, Korean-American mass murderer (Virginia Tech Massacre) (d. 2007)
1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
1987 - Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer

Deaths

52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)
350 - Constans, Roman Emperor, (b. 320)
474 - Leo I of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1583 - Margaret of Austria (1522-1583), regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1923 - Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1865)
1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party (UK) (b. 1906)
1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 - Carl Betz, English musician (b. 1921)
1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1903)
1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao,Indian film actor (b.1923)
1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 - Edward Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange (band)/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances

Winnie The Pooh Day (in observance of the birthday of A. A. Milne, 1882.)
Paryaya festival at Udupi held every alternate years 2006, 2008, 2010 etc.

Religious observances

Chair of Saint PeterAttwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
Saint Margaret of Hungary
The Feast of the Confession of Peter observed in Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches.
Feast day of Athanasius of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox)
Feast day of Cyril of Alexandria
Feast day of Saint Volusianus
January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saint Prisca
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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Events

350 - General Magnentius deposes List of Roman Emperors Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
474 - Leo II (emperor) briefly becomes Byzantine emperor
532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 - Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty) abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong of Song
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV of England.
1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Sweden at Lake Åsunden.
1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro History of Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 - Friedrich I of Prussia becomes King of Prussia.
1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
1778 - James Cook is the first known European ethnic groups to discover the Hawaii, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
1861 - American Civil War - Georgia (U.S. state) joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in secession from the United States.
1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first List of German Kings and Emperors in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire, to the Germans, was known as The Second Reich
1884 - William Price (doctor) attempts to cremation the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) stationed in San Francisco, California harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1912 - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian people explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
1913 - A Hellenic Navy flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter, Missouri in Stone County, Missouri.
1918 - World War I : Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.
1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 opens in Versailles, France. Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Saint Petersburg, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army
1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionellosis.
1977 - Australia's worst Granville railway disaster, Sydney killing 83.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for Psychoactive drug possession in an FBI sting.
1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Day is officially observed in all 50 U.S. state.
1994 - The Cando event, a possible Meteoroid#Bolide impact event in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc cave paintings and engravings over 17,000 years old discovered.
1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spain aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
2001 - The United Kingdom digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.
2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
2003 - A 2003 Canberra bushfires kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 - A United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.
2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill (storm), caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.

Births

885 - Emperor Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
1779 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
1782 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
1813 - Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
1850 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1854 - Thomas A. Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
1856 - Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931)
1867 - Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
1886 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
1888 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
1892 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1908 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
1910 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1983)
1913 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1922 - Bob Bell (actor), American clown (d. 1997)
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
1933 - John Boorman, Irish film director
1933 - Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
1934 - Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
1935 - Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1937 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
1938 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez (racing driver), Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
1943 - Kay Granger, American politician
1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1953 - Brett Hudson, American actor
1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
1955 - Fergus Martin, Irish artist
1956 - Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress
1956 - Tom Bailey, English singer (Thompson Twins)
1961 - Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor
1962 - Alison Arngrim, American actress
1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
1964 - Jane Horrocks, British actress
1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 - Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
1966 - André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1967 - Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1967 - Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1969 - David Bautista, American professional wrestler
1969 - Jim O'Rourke (musician), American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Jonathan Davis, American musician (Korn)
1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1972 - Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
1973 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006
1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
1978 - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
1980 - Robert Green, English footballer
1980 - Julius Peppers, American football player
1981 - Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
1981 - Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
1982 - Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)
1982 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1984 - Michael Kearney, American child prodigy
1984 - Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
1984 - Cho Seung-Hui, Korean-American mass murderer (Virginia Tech Massacre) (d. 2007)
1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
1987 - Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer

Deaths

52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)
350 - Constans, Roman Emperor, (b. 320)
474 - Leo I of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1583 - Margaret of Austria (1522-1583), regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1923 - Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1865)
1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party (UK) (b. 1906)
1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 - Carl Betz, English musician (b. 1921)
1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1903)
1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao,Indian film actor (b.1923)
1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 - Edward Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange (band)/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances

Winnie The Pooh Day (in observance of the birthday of A. A. Milne, 1882.)
Paryaya festival at Udupi held every alternate years 2006, 2008, 2010 etc.

Religious observances

Chair of Saint PeterAttwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
Saint Margaret of Hungary
The Feast of the Confession of Peter observed in Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches.
Feast day of Athanasius of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox)
Feast day of Cyril of Alexandria
Feast day of Saint Volusianus
January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saint Prisca
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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