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January 18th, 2008 (January 18 2008)DeathGeorgia Frontiere, American football team owner (born in 1927)
January 18th, 2008 (January 18 2008)DeathFrank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (born in 1925)
January 18th, 2008 (January 18 2008)DeathJohn Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (born in 1929)
January 18th, 1998 (January 18 1998)EventLewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.Bill Clinton Quotes
January 18th, 1988 (January 18 1988)BirthRonald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter
January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978)EventThe European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978)BirthBrian Falkenborg, American baseball player
January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978)DeathHasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (born in 1919) Philo Quotes
January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978)DeathCarl Betz, American film and television actor (born in 1921)
January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978)DeathWalter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (born in 1890)Winston Churchill Quotes
January 18th, 1968 (January 18 1968)BirthFrank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
January 18th, 1958 (January 18 1958)EventWillie O Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
January 18th, 1938 (January 18 1938)BirthCurt Flood, American baseball player (died in 1997)
January 18th, 1918 (January 18 1918)BirthGustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (died in 1996)
January 18th, 1908 (January 18 1908)BirthJacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (died in 1974)
January 18th, 1908 (January 18 1908)BirthPrincess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died in 1972)
January 18th, 1888 (January 18 1888)BirthThomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (died in 1989)
January 18th, 1878 (January 18 1878)DeathAntoine Cesar Becquerel, French physicist (born in 1788)
January 18th, 1848 (January 18 1848)BirthIoan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (died in 1925)
January 18th, 1788 (January 18 1788)EventThe first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
January 18th, 1778 (January 18 1778)EventJames Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
January 18th, 1688 (January 18 1688)BirthLionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died in 1765)

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