TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2008

Today is Tuesday, January 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year.

1587 _ Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain

1613 _ Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees

1781 _ Mozart's opera ``Idomeneo" premieres in Munich

1834 _ President Jackson orders the first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute

1839 _ Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

1861 _ Kansas becomes the 34th U.S. state

1922 _ The Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved

1927 _ The fourth German government of Marx forms

1944 _ 285 German bombers attack London

1959 _ Walt Disney's ``Sleeping Beauty" released

1966 _ Snowstorm in northeast U.S. kills 165

1968 _ Nauru adopts constitution

1979 _ Chinese Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C.

1980 _ Six Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of the Canadians

1990 _ Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill