At A Glance

18 January 1991 at a glance

Day of the week
18 January 1991 was a Friday.
Irish Chart Song in 1991
The Irish chart song for 1991 was “Everything I Do I Do It for You” by Bryan Adams.
Top Film of 1991
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1991 was Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Star sign
The star sign for 18 January is Capricorn.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 18 January 1991 fell in the Year of the Horse.
Birthstone
The birthstone for January is Garnet.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 18 January 1991 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 18 January

  • 1981 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).
  • 1983 The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
  • 1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
  • 1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
  • 2002 The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

Famous people born on 18 January

  • Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1971)
  • Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer (born 1955)
  • Dave Bautista, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor (born 1969)
  • Karim Adeyemi, German footballer (born 2002)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 1991 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '1991 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 1 January – Limerick city celebrated 300 years of the Treaty of Limerick.
  • 7 February – Downing Street mortar attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in London.
  • 15 March – The Sugar Act provided for privatisation of Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann, Teoranta, the state-owned sugar beet processor, as Greencore.

Life in Ireland in 1991

Taoiseach

Charles Haughey

Petrol (per litre)

£1.52/gal

Loaf of Bread

£0.62

Average House

£32,000

Weekly Wage

£86

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Famous Faces Born in the 1990s

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