All Events

Historical Events on January 18

  • First Balkan War

    1913

    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.

  • World War I

    1919

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

  • World War II

    1941

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

  • Kraków

    1945

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

  • Israel

    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.

  • Bacterium

    1977

    Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

    1977

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

  • Airbus A380

    2005

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

  • Gaza War (2008-09)

    2009

    Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

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