Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 18

1307 : German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 : Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1486 : King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1520 : Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
1535 : Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
1644 : 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
1644 : Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1650 : French Prince Louis II of Cond‚ captured
1671 : Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam
1691 : English king Willem III travels to The Hague
1701 : Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia
1733 : 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 : San Jose California, founded
1778 : Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1788 : English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony
1795 : French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
1795 : governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
1817 : San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
1840 : Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1850 : British blockade Pir‘us, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
1854 : Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW M‚xico
1862 : Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1865 : Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
1869 : Elegant Calif Theater opens in SF
1871 : 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
1884 : General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1896 : 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
1896 : British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
1900 : Jan Blockx's "T˜l Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
1901 : Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
1905 : French govt of Combes falls
1908 : Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
1911 : 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1912 : English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole,
1912 : only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
1913 : Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1915 : Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1919 : WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1921 : William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
1922 : Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1923 : 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1929 : "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1929 : Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1930 : -27øF (-33øC), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
1930 : Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1933 : White Sands National Monument, NM established
1934 : Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
1938 : Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG
1938 : Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
1939 : SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* v NSW
1942 : Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
1943 : Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
1943 : Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
1943 : Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1943 : Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
1943 : US rations bread & metal
1944 : 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1945 : Warsaw freed by Soviet army
1947 : "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
1947 : Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1947 : Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
1948 : 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1948 : Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1949 : "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
1949 : 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
1949 : South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
1950 : Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London
1950 : cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
1950 : Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary
1951 : 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
1951 : Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
1951 : NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
1951 : NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
1954 : Fanfani forms Italian govt
1956 : German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1957 : 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1960 : US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
1961 : parliament by a single seat
1961 : Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote &
1962 : Southern University closed due to demonstrations
1962 : US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 : Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 : Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1965 : H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
1966 : Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
1967 : Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1967 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 : Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1968 : "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
1968 : Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
1968 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 : Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1970 : NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
1971 : Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 : Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1973 : Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
1973 : John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
1974 : "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 : Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1975 : "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1976 : Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR
1976 : Superbowl X: Pitts Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami
1977 : Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
1978 : Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
1978 : Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
1978 : Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1979 : Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1980 : Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
1980 : in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000
1980 : Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
1980 : Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3« years
1981 : Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1981 : Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1983 : were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1984 : 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
1985 : US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1986 : 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
1986 : AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
1986 : NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1987 : 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 : Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1989 : Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 : Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1989 : IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 : inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1989 : Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
1989 : West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1990 : South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
1990 : Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 : Asteroid 1991 BA, í 10 m, comes within 170,000 km of Earth
1991 : Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 : Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
1991 : US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 : WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
1992 : 49th Golden Globes
1992 : Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui
1992 : Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
1992 : NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
1993 : Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1993 : West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
1995 : Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
1995 : Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1996 : Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
1996 : Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1998 : "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC
1998 : 55th Golden Globes Awards
1998 : ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
1998 : Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
1998 : Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
1998 : UCP Telethon

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