CNN Interactive - Almanac - January 18, 1999

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, ends.
National Basketball Association training camps are to open.
The first session of the Conference on Disarmament is scheduled in Geneva.
The House of Lords in London is scheduled to hold a hearing to reconsider Gen. Augusto Pinochet's claim that his status as a former foreign head of state gives him immunity. The former Chilean dictator was arrested on charges of murder and torture during his 1973-1990 rule.

On Tuesday, January 19, President Clinton scheduled to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress in Washington.
On Wednesday, January 20, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan is scheduled to testify on the state of the economy in Washington.
On Thursday, January 21, the Republican National Committee is scheduled to hold its 1999 winter meeting in Washington.
On Friday, January 22, the Senate is to begin questioning in the impeachment trial of President Clinton in Washington. Questioning is not to exceed 16 hours.
On Saturday, January 23, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is to address a 10-city teleconference in Washington on Social Security issues affecting women.

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In 1486, Henry VII of England married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York.
In 1701, Frederick III of Brandenburg was crowned Frederick I, king of Prussia.
In 1871, William I of Prussia proclaimed the first emperor of Germany in the hall of mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
In 1911, U.S. pilot Eugene Ely became the first person to land a plane on the deck of a ship. He landed a Curtiss aircraft on a platform on the cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay.
In 1919, the Versailles peace conference ending World War I opened. It was chaired by French Premier Georges Clemenceau.
In 1977, at least 80 people were killed in Sydney when a locomotive rammed a bridge bringing it crashing down on to a commuter train. It was Australia's worst rail crash.
In 1991, Iraq fired at least eight missiles at Israel in a bid to drag the Jewish state into the Gulf War the day after the allies had launched Operation Desert Storm.
In 1995, the European Parliament endorsed the new 20-strong European Commission, in a vote marking the Strasbourg-based assembly's political coming of age.
In 1996, Greece's ruling Socialist Party elected Costas Simitis, an avid party reformer, to replace its ailing founder Andreas Papandreou as prime minister.