WHAT HAPPENED ON 18. JANUARY
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Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. (18. January 1915)

A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. (18. January 1916)

World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. (18. January 1919)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. (18. January 1919)

Bentley Motors Limited is founded. (18. January 1919)

World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. (18. January 1941)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. (18. January 1943)

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. (18. January 1944)

World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad. (18. January 1944)

World War II: Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army. (18. January 1945)

World War II: Liberation of Krakow, Poland by the Red Army. (18. January 1945)

Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan is fought. (18. January 1955)

Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. (18. January 1958)

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. (18. January 1960)

Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. (18. January 1967)

United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members. (18. January 1969)

A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War. (18. January 1974)

Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000. (18. January 1976)

Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. (18. January 1977)

Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83. (18. January 1977)