MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2021

1733 ― First polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)

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

1871 ― Second German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck

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

1919 ― WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France

1944 ― First Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts

1951 ― First use of lie detector in Netherlands

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

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

1964 ― Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)

1969 ― Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

1980 ― Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

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