Today is Friday, January 18, the 18th day of 2013. There are 347 days left in the year.
350 ― General Maxentius drives out Western Roman Emperor Constans
1535 ― Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru
1871 ― Second German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck
1896 ― First demonstration of an X-ray machine in the U.S., New York City
1919 ― WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1943 ― Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1951 ― First use of lie detector in Netherlands
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