SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Today is Saturday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2008. There are 333 days left in the year.

506 _ King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out

962 _ Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor

1848 _ The first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco

1863 _ Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for the first time

1878 _ Greece declares war on Turkey

1906 _ Pope encyclical against separation of church and state

1920 _ Estonia declares its Independence from Russia

1922 _ James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris

1932 _ Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Ga.)

1957 _ The U.N. adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt

1995 _ U.S. space shuttle Discovery launched