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January 18, 1998 "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater New York City January 18, 1998 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver January 18, 1998 55th Golden Globes Awards January 18, 1998 ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando January 18, 1998 Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00 January 18, 1998 Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural January 18, 1998 UCP Telethon January 18, 1997 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena January 18, 1996 Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997 January 18, 1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY January 18, 1995 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs. Kerala January 18, 1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia January 18, 1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time January 18, 1993 West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 January 18, 1992 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila January 18, 1992 49th Golden Globes January 18, 1992 Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui January 18, 1992 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident January 18, 1992 NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila January 18, 1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel January 18, 1991 U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career January 18, 1991 WLAF's New York Knights become NY-New Jersey Knights January 18, 1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 mins January 18, 1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress January 18, 1990 Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting January 18, 1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC) January 18, 1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey January 18, 1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988 January 18, 1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder January 18, 1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup January 18, 1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board January 18, 1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins January 18, 1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth January 18, 1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1 January 18, 1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) January 18, 1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise January 18, 1984 80th Islander and 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll and Bossy) 9-1 win January 18, 1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball January 18, 1981 Iran accepts U.S. offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets January 18, 1981 Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity January 18, 1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce January 18, 1980 Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 January 18, 1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 January 18, 1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon January 18, 1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, vs. Pak Karachi January 18, 1978 Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) January 18, 1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB January 18, 1977 Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG January 18, 1976 Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR January 18, 1975 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS January 18, 1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV January 18, 1974 Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord January 18, 1973 Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH January 18, 1973 Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak January 18, 1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC January 18, 1971 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ January 18, 1970 Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec January 18, 1970 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13 January 18, 1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris January 18, 1968 "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 286 performances January 18, 1968 Hester and Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in New York City January 18, 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. January 18, 1967 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal January 18, 1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison January 18, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site January 18, 1967 Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada January 18, 1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) January 18, 1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname January 18, 1964 Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35) January 18, 1964 Plans for World Trade Center announced (New York City) January 18, 1963 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59) January 18, 1962 Southern University closed due to demonstrations January 18, 1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas January 18, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site January 18, 1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and parliament by a single seat January 18, 1960 US and Japan sign joint defense treaty January 18, 1959 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open January 18, 1958 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) January 18, 1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min January 18, 1956 German DR forms own army (National People's Army) January 18, 1954 Fanfani forms Italian government January 18, 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open January 18, 1951 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands January 18, 1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" January 18, 1951 NFL rules tackles, guards and centers ineligible for forward pass January 18, 1951 NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts January 18, 1950 Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London January 18, 1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion January 18, 1949 "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont) January 18, 1949 1st U.S. Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson) January 18, 1949 South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer January 18, 1948 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria January 18, 1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) January 18, 1947 "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 831 performances January 18, 1947 Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000) January 18, 1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 January 18, 1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army January 18, 1944 1st Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts January 18, 1943 Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis January 18, 1943 Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts January 18, 1943 Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad January 18, 1943 US rations bread and metal January 18, 1943 Uprising in Warsaw ghetto January 18, 1942 Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman January 18, 1939 SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW January 18, 1938 Bradman scores 104* for South Australia vs. NSW at the SCG January 18, 1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame January 18, 1934 Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in New York City January 18, 1933 White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established January 18, 1930 -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record) January 18, 1930 Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad January 18, 1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio January 18, 1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo January 18, 1923 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies January 18, 1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin January 18, 1921 William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in New York City January 18, 1919 WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France January 18, 1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die January 18, 1913 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy January 18, 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before January 18, 1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) January 18, 1908 Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres January 18, 1905 French government of Combes falls January 18, 1901 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re January 18, 1900 Jan Blockx's "T˜l Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels January 18, 1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in U.S. (New York City) January 18, 1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa January 18, 1895 Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms January 18, 1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum January 18, 1871 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck January 18, 1869 Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco January 18, 1865 Battle of Ft. Moultrie, SC January 18, 1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona forms January 18, 1854 Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico January 18, 1850 British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims January 18, 1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st U.S. electrical journal, appears January 18, 1817 San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes January 18, 1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance January 18, 1795 Governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England January 18, 1788 English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony January 18, 1778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) January 18, 1777 San Jose, California, founded January 18, 1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) January 18, 1701 Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia January 18, 1691 English king Willem III travels to The Hague January 18, 1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama January 18, 1650 French Prince Louis II of Conde captured January 18, 1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston January 18, 1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting January 18, 1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru January 18, 1520 Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde January 18, 1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV January 18, 1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod January 18, 1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia January 18, 532 Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die January 18, 350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans January 18, 336 Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope |