January 18 in history — What Happened Today in History

Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.

An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, Petén, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.

The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.

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

Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.

A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.

United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.

Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

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

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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

Alt Llobregat insurrection breaks out in Central Catalonia, Spain.

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

Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.

Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.

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.

Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

British colonial engineer and estate manager William Claxton Peppé discovered the Buddha's remains in Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh, India.

An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

Lisandro Martínez, Argentinian footballer

Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer

Emil Audero, Indonesian footballer

Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player

Sarah Gilman, American actress

Bryce Alford, American basketball player

Leonard Fournette, American football player

Samu Castillejo, Spanish footballer

Max Fried, American baseball player

Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer

Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player

Sean Keenan, Australian actor

Juan Fernando Quintero, Colombian footballer

T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (born 1930)

Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (born 1924)

Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer and prosecutor (born 1963)

Christine Valmy, Romanian cosmetologist and author (born 1926)

Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (born 1924)

Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (born 1933)

Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and author (born 1919)

Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th Governor of Plateau State (born 1938)

Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Andy Graver, English footballer (born 1927)

Sarah Marshall, English actress (born 1933)

Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet and painter (born 1923)

Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (born 1922)