TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007

Today is Tuesday, December 4, the 338th day of 2007. There are 27 days left in the year.

1576 _ Spanish defeat Walloons and take Antwerp Belgium

1842 _ Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.

1866 _ The Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia

1890 _ Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate

1952 _ Eisenhower elected 34th president of the U.S.

1956 _ 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest

1956 _ Israel captures the Straits of Tiran from Egypt

1979 _ 500 Iranian ``students" seize the U.S. Embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)

1984 _ Nicaragua holds the first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63 percent

1986 _ Democrats gain control over the U.S. Senate

1990 _ Iraq says it is preparing for a ``dangerous war"

1990 _ Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia

1991 _ A Mideast peace conference ends in Madrid Spain