29 Dey 1395

Events

• 1670 (356 years ago) Henry Morgan captures Panama.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
• 1972 (54 years ago) Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.
• 1974 (52 years ago) A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
• 1977 (49 years ago) SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 2008 (18 years ago) The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• 2012 (14 years ago) More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US.[citation needed] The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to free speech and many of them temporarily shut down in protest.
• 2023 (3 years ago) A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

Births

• 1689 (337 years ago) Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (died 1755)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (died 1916)
• 1882 (144 years ago) A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1956)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Cary Grant, English-American actor (died 1986)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher (died 1995)
• 1944 (82 years ago) Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria
• 1955 (71 years ago) Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
• 1971 (55 years ago) Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager

Deaths

• 474 (1552 years ago) Leo I, Byzantine emperor (born 401)
• 1213 (813 years ago) Tamar of Georgia,
• 1862 (164 years ago) John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (born 1790)
• 1873 (153 years ago) Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1803)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (born 1874)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
• 2001 (25 years ago) Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1939)

All 426 events, births and deaths of January 18