How Many Days Until January 18?

This day in history: January 18

1. 1958

   Willie 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.

2. 1958

   Members of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, which turned into an armed confrontation between the two groups.

3. 1969

   In response to months of nationwide student protests, thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo.

4. 1983

   Thirty 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.

5. 1983

   Singaporean communist activist Tan Chay Wa was executed, leading to a much-publicised trial of his brother for engraving "subversive" material on the gravestone.

6. 1990

   In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.

7. 2019

   An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.

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