TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2008. There are 344 days left in the year.

1371 _ King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned

1517 _ Turks conquer Cairo

1689 _ Lord Halifax becomes speaker of English House of Lords

1771 _ Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain

1813 _ Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada

1816 _ Lord Byron completes ``Parisina" and ``The Siege of Corinth"

1881 _ Ancient Egyptian obelisk ``Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park

1939 _ Uranium atom first split at Columbia University

1945 _ Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa

1946 _ The U.S. sets up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

1953 _ Arthur Miller's ``Crucible" premieres in New York City

1968 _ Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made

1973 _ The U.S., North and South Vietnam, and Vietcong sign a boundary accord

1980 _ Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki

1988 _ Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title