About the day » Thursday January 18, 1979Calender converter

• Gabriel Chris BOGOTT, Morrison Whiteside County Illinois U.S.A († 1996)

• Adrianus Antonius Snijders (67), Den Bosch
• Alfons Joannes Augustijnen (79), Berlaar, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Aaltje van der Bij (89)
• Berend Jan Huiskes (89), wierden
• Adrianus Schellekens (90), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Walinga (85), Koudum, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Schellekens (90), Dongen, Nederland
• Adrianus Andreas van Beek (60), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsine Vanduynslager (84), Neuville-en-Ferrain (FR59)
• Albertus Gerhardus Bril (81), Hellendoorn

• 1978 » Bogdan Lobonț, Romanian footballer
• 1978 » Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
• 1978 » Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
• 1979 » Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 1979 » Kenyatta Jones, American football player († 2018)
• 1979 » Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
• 1979 » Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Estelle, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1980 » Kert Haavistu, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1980 » Robert Green, English footballer

• 1969 » Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)
• 1970 » David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
• 1971 » Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1973 » Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko, Russian tank commander (b. 1924)
• 1975 » Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)
• 1980 » Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer and photographer (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
• 1984 » Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b. 1940)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• February 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
• March 26 » Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
• December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

The temperature on January 18, 1979 was between -5.7 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.