Historical timeline for January 18

At least 45 people are killed and 292 others injured after two trains collide in Adamuz in the worst railway disaster in over a decade in Spain.

The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United States, after the passing of PAFACA.

A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.

A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.

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.

The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.

The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France

A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.

An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, Petén, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.

The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.