January 18
People born on this day are Capricorn.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
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The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
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A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
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The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
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The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
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The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US.[citation needed] The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to free speech and many of them temporarily shut down in protest.
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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.
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A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.
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The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United States, after the passing of PAFACA.
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At least 45 people are killed and 292 others injured after two trains collide in Adamuz in the worst railway disaster in over a decade in Spain.
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2002Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player
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2002Ki-Jana Hoever, Dutch footballer
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2002Karim Adeyemi, German footballer
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1999Karan Brar, American actor
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1999Tee Higgins, American football player
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1999Gary Trent Jr., American basketball player
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1998Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer
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1998Lisandro Martínez, Argentinian footballer
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1998Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
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1997Emil Audero, Indonesian footballer
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1997Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player
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1995Bryce Alford, American basketball player
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