In the present day is Saturday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2025. There are 347 days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On Jan. 18, 1996, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson after lower than two years of marriage.
Additionally on this date:
In 1778, English navigator Captain James Prepare dinner reached the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the “Sandwich Islands.”
In 1911, the primary touchdown of an plane on a ship occurred as pilot Eugene B. Ely introduced his Curtiss biplane in for a protected touchdown on the deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor.
In 1958, Canadian Willie O’Ree grew to become the primary Black participant within the Nationwide Hockey League as he made his debut with the Boston Bruins.
In 1973, Pink Floyd started recording “Darkish Aspect of the Moon.”
In 1977, scientists recognized the micro organism accountable for the lethal type of atypical pneumonia referred to as Legionnaires’ illness.
In 1990, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested after FBI brokers caught him smoking crack cocaine in a D.C. lodge room in a videotaped sting operation.
In 1993, the Martin Luther King Jr. vacation was noticed in all 50 states for the primary time.
In 2013, former Democratic New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted on expenses that he’d used his workplace for private acquire, accepting payoffs, free journeys and gratuities from contractors whereas the town was struggling to get well from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. (Nagin was later convicted and launched from jail in 2020.)
In 2019, Jason Van Dyke, the white Chicago police officer who gunned down Black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014, was sentenced to almost seven years in jail.
In the present day’s birthdays:
- Actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner is 70.
- Actor Mark Rylance is 65.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Mark Messier is 64.
- Actor Dave Bautista is 56.
- Actor Jesse L. Martin is 56.
- Rock singer Jonathan Davis (Korn) is 54.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Julius Peppers is 45.
- Actor Jason Segel is 45.
- Tennis participant Angelique Kerber is 37.