Today is Friday, January 18, the 18th day of 2008. There are 348 days left in the year.
336 _ St. Mark begins his reign as Catholic pope
350 _ General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
1478 _ Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1691 _ English King Willem III travels to The Hague
1919 _ WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1929 _ Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1960 _ The U.S. and Japan sign a joint defense treaty
1962 _ The U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1974 _ Israel and Egypt sign a weapons accord
1981 _ Iran accepts U.S. offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1990 _ Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 _ Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 _ The U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career