MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008

Today is Monday, January 28, the 28th day of 2008. There are 338 days left in the year.

1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German Emperor Heinrich IV

1099 _ The first Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad, Syria

1613 _ Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

1851 _ Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered

1871 _ Paris surrenders to Prussians

1902 _ Carnegie Institute founded in Washington, D.C.

1909 _ U.S. military forces leave Cuba for the second time

1918 _ Trotsky becomes leader of Reds

1932 _ Japan occupies Shanghai

1935 _ Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion

1942 _ German troops occupy Benghazi, Libya

1944 _ Leonard Bernstein's ``remiah" premieres in Pittsburgh

1949 _ The U.N. Security Council condemns Dutch aggression in Indonesia

1956 _ Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show)

1981 _ William J Casey becomes the 13th director of CIA (until 1987)

1988 _ Canada's Supreme Curt declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional

1990 _ East German agreement to form all-party government

1998 _ Michelangelo's ``Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million