Daily Calendar for Saturday, January 18, 2025

Events

• The play entitled Gorboduc, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, was presented before Queen Elizabeth I. It was the first real English tragedy.– 1562
• John Winthrop documented the first known unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings in North America– 1644
• Two lights formed a manlike shape and arose out of the water in Boston– 1644
• Eugene Ely proved that planes could land safely on ships– 1911
• Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21– 1915
• The first session of the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI was held– 1919
• NY Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell debuted on radio– 1926
• First around-the-world, nonstop flight by jet concluded– 1957
• The Dow Jones industrial stock average first passed the 1,000 mark– 1966
• Yellowknife became capital of the Northwest Territories– 1967
• The cause of Legionnaires’ disease (Legionellosis) identified as bacteria– 1977
• 211-pound striped marlin caught near Red Hill, Hawaii– 1996
• 4-lb. 8-oz. Heller’s barracuda caught, Molokai, Hawaii– 2005
• A half pound meteorite crashed through the office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, Lorton, Virginia– 2010
• A 0.66-pound meteorite crashed through a doctors’ office in Lorton, Virginia – 2010