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UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025

On Jan. 18, 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor.

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On January 18, 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. File Photo courtesy Kabinett-Fotografie/Wikimedia
1 of 4 | On January 18, 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. File Photo courtesy Kabinett-Fotografie/Wikimedia

Today is Saturday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2025 with 347 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include American orator/statesman Daniel Webster in 1782; Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girls Scouts, in 1860; writer A.A. Milne in 1882; comedian/actor Oliver Hardy in 1892; actor Cary Grant in 1904; actor Danny Kaye in 1911; inventor Ray Dolby in 1933; filmmaker John Boorman in 1933 (age 92); former Northern Ireland politician/Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume in 1937; baseball star Curt Flood in 1938; musician David Ruffin (Temptations) in 1941; musician Bobby Goldsboro in 1941 (age 84); actor/filmmaker Kevin Costner in 1955 (age 70); actor/musician Mark Collie in 1956 (age 69); actor Mark Rylance in 1960 (age 65); actor Alison Arngrim in 1962 (age 63); comedian/actor Dave Attell in 1965 (age 60); actor/musician Jesse L. Martin in 1969 (age 56); actor/wrestler Dave Bautista in 1969 (age 56); musician Jonathan Davis (Korn) in 1971 (age 54); actor Jason Segel in 1980 (age 45); actor Becca Tobin in 1986 (age 39); actor Ashleigh Murray in 1988 (age 37); actor Hunter Doohan in 1994 (age 31); musician Thomas Raggi (MÃ¥neskin) in 2001 (age 24); actor Samuel Joslin in 2002 (age 23).

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On this date in history:

In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended upon his death March 9, 1888, and he was succeeded by his son, Frederick III.

In 1919, world leaders gathered in Paris to begin a peace conference after the end of World War I. President Woodrow Wilson used the negotiations to push his idea of an international peacekeeping organization, the League of Nations.

In 1935, an additional 98 individuals were sentenced, 19 to prison and 79 to exile, for playing a role in the assassination of Sergei Kirov as Josef Stalin ruled unchallenged throughout Soviet Russia.

In 1969, as he prepared for the peaceful transfer of power, President Lyndon Johnson put his faith in history that his record of public service and accomplishments would serve as a fitting legacy.

In 1983, the International Olympic Committee restored Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. They had been rescinded for Thorpe's having played professional baseball. He won gold medals in 1912 in the pentathlon and decathlon.

In 1990, authorities arrested Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry on narcotics charges after he was caught on camera smoking crack cocaine by a woman who agreed to record him in exchange for a reduced sentence on a previous charge.

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In 1997, Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1,675-mile trek across Antarctica. It was the first time anyone traversed the continent alone.

In 2007, Venezuelan lawmakers voted to allow President Hugo Chavez to rule by decree for 18 months.

In 2010, Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 and was later forgiven by the pontiff, was released from a Turkish prison.

In 2011, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest among a group of police recruits in Tikrit, Iraq, killing at least 60 people and injuring 150 others.

In 2013, Algerian forces freed more than 600 hostages held by Islamist militants at a gas plant in In Amenas.

In 2022, Indonesia's parliament passed a bill to formally relocate the capital of the country from Jakarta to a location in Kalimantan state -- and name the new government center Nusantara.

In 2024, after a mission that lasted 33 times longer than scientists expected, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took its final flight on Mars. The unmanned vehicle took 72 flights, traveling nearly 11 miles over nearly 1,000 Martian days.


A thought for the day: "Painting completed my life." -- Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

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