Today is Thursday, January 10, the 10th day of 2008. There are 356 days left in the year.
49 B.C. _ Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy
236 _ St. Fabian begins his reign as Catholic pope
1642 _ King Charles I and his family flee London for Oxford
1806 _ Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British
1870 _ John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1889 _ Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1928 _ The Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1942 _ Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies
1946 _ The U.S. Army establishes the first radar contact with Moon
1951 _ U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan, NY
1978 _ Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1990 _ China lifts martial law imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre
1991 _ Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1997 _ Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua