Today is Monday, January 18, the 18th day of 2010. There are 347 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)
1871 _ Second German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck
1943 _ Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
1944 _ First Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1962 _ U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1980 _ Pink Floyd's ``The Wall" hits No. 1
1991 _ U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1993 _ Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for first time