Today is Tuesday, January 8, the eighth day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year.
624 _ Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan
794 _ Church at Lindisfarne, England, destroyed by Vikings
1656 _ The oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins in Haarlem, the Netherlands
1745 _ England, Austria, the Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
1790 _ George Washington delivers the first ``State of the Union" address
1952 _ Jordan adopts constitution
1958 _ Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1959 _ Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic
1964 _ President Lyndon B. Johnson declares ``War on Poverty"
1979 _ Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
1986 _ President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the U.S.
1989 _ The Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1998 _ World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life