Today is Thursday, January 3, the third day of 2008. There are 363 days left in the year.
236 _ St. Anterus ends his reign as Catholic pope
1431 _ Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
1521 _ Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1833 _ Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
1868 _ Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
1921 _ Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1941 _ Italian counter offensive in Albania
1945 _ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France
1945 _ U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1957 _ The first electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pa.
1958 _ Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole overland
1959 _ Alaska admitted as the 49th U.S. state
1961 _ The U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 _ Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
1970 _ Marxist government takes over in Congo
1974 _ Burma accepts its constitution
1977 _ Apple Computer incorporated
1985 _ Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
1988 _ Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century