Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 18

Images
Use only ONE image at a time

Eligible

 * 474 – The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.
 * 1535 – Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.
 * 1788 – The armed tender HMS Supply (1759), the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
 * 1915 – Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
 * 1943 – World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.
 * 1958 – Members of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, which turned into an armed confrontation between the two.
 * 1958 – Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
 * 1983 – Singaporean communist activist Tan Chay Wa was executed, leading to a much-publicised trial of his brother for engraving 'subversive' material on the gravestone.
 * 1990 – In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
 * Born/died: | Tamar of Georgia |d|1213| Jobst of Moravia |d|1411| Jean-François de Surville |b|1717| Jeanne Quinault |d|1783| César Cui |b|1835| Edward Bulwer-Lytton |d|1873| Aleksandra Ekster |b|1882| Goose Tatum |d|1967| Vinod Kambli |b|1972| N. T. Rama Rao |d|1996