Today is Tuesday, December 4, the 338th day of 2007. There are 27 days left in the year.
1576 _ Spanish defeat Walloons and take Antwerp Belgium
1842 _ Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.
1866 _ The Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1890 _ Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1952 _ Eisenhower elected 34th president of the U.S.
1956 _ 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1956 _ Israel captures the Straits of Tiran from Egypt
1979 _ 500 Iranian ``students" seize the U.S. Embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1984 _ Nicaragua holds the first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63 percent
1986 _ Democrats gain control over the U.S. Senate
1990 _ Iraq says it is preparing for a ``dangerous war"
1990 _ Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
1991 _ A Mideast peace conference ends in Madrid Spain