SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2007

Today is Saturday, December 22, the 356th day of 2007. There are 9 days left in the year.

401 _ St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic pope

1731 _ Dutch people revolt against meat tax

1790 _ Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks

1910 _ U.S. postal savings stamps first issued

1941 _ Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C., for a wartime conference

1941 _ Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, the Philippines

1956 _ Last British/French troops leave Egypt

1968 _ Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower

1971 _ The U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general

1971 _ The USSR performs underground nuclear test

1978 _ Thailand adopts constitution

1983 _ Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat

1988 _ South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa

1990 _ Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait

1990 _ Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president