FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Today is Friday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2008. There are 334 days left in the year.

772 _ Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic pope

1587 _ English Queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence

1662 _ Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates

1669 _ French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion

1720 _ Sweden and Prussia sign a peace treaty

1789 _ Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long

1793 _ France declares war on England and Netherlands

1861 _ Texas becomes the seventh U.S. state to secede

1893 _ Thomas Edison completes world's first movie studio (West Orange, NJ)

1902 _ China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet

1951 _ The U.N. condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

1961 _ First full-scale test of U.S. Minuteman ICBM is successful

1984 _ China and the Netherlands regain diplomatic relations