SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2008

Today is Saturday, January 19, the 19th day of 2008. There are 347 days left in the year.

379 _ Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire

973 _ Pope Benedictus VI elected

1793 _ French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

1806 _ Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope

1808 _ Louis Napoleon signs the first Dutch aviation law

1829 _ Johann von Goethe's ``Faust, Part 1" premieres

1833 _ Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland

1918 _ Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly

1921 _ Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign the Pact of Union

1927 _ The British government decides to send troops to China

1942 _ Japanese forces invade Burma (now Myanmar)

1966 _ Indira Gandhi elected India's third prime minister

1981 _ The U.S. and Iran sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages

1993 _ Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal