Event:
NASA scientists achieve a first in laser communication when they successfully beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon
More Notable Events on January 18:
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in New York
1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1951 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
1933 White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established
1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
