On this day in history
January 18
ChristianBuddhist
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on January 18 this year.
- 1562 CEChristian
Under Pope Pius IV the Council of Trent reopened at Trent for its third and final period, which continued until December 1563.
- 1939 CEBuddhist · born
Bernie Glassman, the American Zen teacher who founded the Zen Peacemakers and pioneered socially engaged practice, was born in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1951 CEChristian · died
Amy Carmichael, the Irish missionary who founded the Dohnavur Fellowship in South India, died after fifty-five years there.