Today is Friday, January 4, the fourth day of 2008. There are 362 days left in the year.
274 _ St. Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic pope
1493 _ Columbus left the New World on return from first voyage
1642 _ King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
1717 _ The Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance
1725 _ Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1762 _ England declares a war on Spain and Naples
1894 _ France ratifies the Duple Alliance with Russia
1896 _ Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as the 45th U.S. state
1907 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London
1923 _ Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
1932 _ British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru
1951 _ During the Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul
1969 _ France begins arms embargo against Israel
1989 _ U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean