Today in History: January 18, Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson

Today is Saturday, Jan. 18, the 18th time of 2025. There are 347 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Jan. 18, 1996, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorcement from Michael Jackson aft little than 2 years of marriage.

Also connected this date:

In 1778, English navigator Captain James Cook reached the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which helium dubbed the “Sandwich Islands.”

In 1911, the archetypal landing of an craft connected a vessel took spot arsenic aviator Eugene B. Ely brought his Curtiss biplane successful for a harmless landing connected the platform of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania successful San Francisco Harbor.

In 1958, Canadian Willie O’Ree became the archetypal Black subordinate successful the National Hockey League arsenic helium made his debut with the Boston Bruins.

In 1973, Pink Floyd began signaling “Dark Side of the Moon.”

In 1977, scientists identified the bacteria liable for the deadly signifier of atypical pneumonia known arsenic Legionnaires’ disease.

In 1990, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested aft FBI agents caught him smoking ace cocaine successful a D.C. edifice country successful a videotaped sting operation.

In 1993, the Martin Luther King Jr. vacation was observed successful each 50 states for the archetypal time.

In 2013, erstwhile Democratic New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted connected charges that he’d utilized his bureau for idiosyncratic gain, accepting payoffs, escaped trips and gratuities from contractors portion the metropolis was struggling to retrieve from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. (Nagin was aboriginal convicted and released from situation successful 2020.)

In 2019, Jason Van Dyke, the achromatic Chicago constabulary serviceman who gunned down Black teen Laquan McDonald successful 2014, was sentenced to astir 7 years successful prison.

Today’s birthdays:

• Actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner is 70.
• Actor Mark Rylance is 65.
• Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier is 64.
• Actor Dave Bautista is 56.
• Actor Jesse L. Martin is 56.
• Rock vocalist Jonathan Davis (Korn) is 54.
• Football Hall of Famer Julius Peppers is 45.
• Actor Jason Segel is 45.
• Tennis subordinate Angelique Kerber is 37.