SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009

Today is Saturday, January 10, the 10th day of 2009. There are 355 days left in the year.

0049 B.C. _ Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy

1430 _ Order of the Guilder forms

1514 _ Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished

1776 _ ``Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

1810 _ French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine

1833 _ Felix Mendelssohn's ``Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin

1839 _ Tea from India first arrives in U.K.

1845 _ Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding

1946 _ U.N. General Assembly convenes for first time (London)

1991 _ Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans