WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012

Today is Wednesday, January 18, the 18th day of 2012. There are 348 days left in the year.

1535 ― Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru

1644 ― Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting

1778 ― Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)

1896 ― First demonstration of an x-ray machine in the U.S. (New York City)

1943 ― Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad

1951 ― First use of lie detector in Netherlands

1960 ― U.S. and Japan sign joint defense treaty

1962 ― U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas

1989 ― Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1993 ― Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for first time