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Daily Calendar for Sunday, January 18, 2026

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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Born

  • Daniel Webster (statesman) –
  • Ruben Dario (poet) –
  • A. A. Milne (author) –
  • Oliver Hardy (comedian) –
  • Cary Grant (actor) –
  • Danny Kaye (actor) –
  • Curt Flood (baseball player) –
  • Bobby Goldsboro (singer) –
  • Kevin Costner (actor) –
  • Karan Brar (actor) –

Died

  • John Tyler (10th U.S. president) –
  • Rudyard Kipling (author) –
  • Curly Howard (actor, best known as one of The Three Stooges) –
  • Robert B. Parker (author of mysteries; Mr. Parker died at his writing desk, working on a book) –
  • Glenn Frey (musician; founding member of The Eagles) –
  • David Crosby (singer, songwriter ) –

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. –
  • John Winthrop documented the first known unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings in North America –
  • Two lights formed a manlike shape and arose out of the water in Boston –
  • Eugene Ely proved that planes could land safely on ships –
  • Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21 –
  • The first session of the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI was held –
  • NY Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell debuted on radio –
  • The sale of pre-sliced bread was banned throughout the U.S. on this date, although the law would be rescinded on March 8, 1943. –
  • First around-the-world, nonstop flight by jet concluded –
  • The Dow Jones industrial stock average first passed the 1,000 mark –
  • Yellowknife became capital of the Northwest Territories –
  • The cause of Legionnaires’ disease (Legionellosis) identified as bacteria –
  • 211-pound striped marlin caught near Red Hill, Hawaii –
  • 4-lb. 8-oz. Heller’s barracuda caught, Molokai, Hawaii –
  • A half pound meteorite crashed through the office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, Lorton, Virginia –
  • A 0.66-pound meteorite crashed through a doctors’ office in Lorton, Virginia –
  • The Boston Bruins retired jersey number 22 in honor of Canadian Willie O’Ree, who became the first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL) when he debuted with the Bruins on this date in 1958. –

Weather

  • Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21 –
  • Twenty-seven degrees below zero F, Watts, Oklahoma –
  • Twenty-nine degrees below zero F in Concord, New Hampshire –
  • 95 degrees F in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California –
  • Fifty-four degrees below zero F in Embarrass, Minnesota –
  • NASA and NOAA announced that 2016 was hottest year globally on record –