WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008

Today is Wednesday, January 30, the 30th day of 2008. There are 336 days left in the year.

1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV

1349 _ Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

1713 _ England and the Netherlands sign the second anti-French boundary treaty

1806 _ Prussia takes possession of Hanover

1925 _ Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople

1933 _ German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen

1937 _ The second of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death

1939 _ Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews

1944 _ The U.S. invades Majuro, Marshall Islands

1954 _ Belgium ends trade agreement with the USSR

1957 _ U.S. Congress accepts ``Eisenhower-doctrine"

1968 _ Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon

1972 _ Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth

1976 _ George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)