TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 8, the eighth day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year.

624 _ Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan

794 _ Church at Lindisfarne, England, destroyed by Vikings

1656 _ The oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins in Haarlem, the Netherlands

1745 _ England, Austria, the Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance

1790 _ George Washington delivers the first ``State of the Union" address

1952 _ Jordan adopts constitution

1958 _ Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1959 _ Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic

1964 _ President Lyndon B. Johnson declares ``War on Poverty"

1979 _ Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh

1986 _ President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the U.S.

1989 _ The Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons

1998 _ World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life