📜 This Day in History
January 18
474The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.- 1871The German Empire was formed by the unification of previously independent German states, under the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
- 1943World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege of the city.
- 1958Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
- 1983Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
- 2019An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
