Today is Friday, January 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year.
314 _ St. Militiades ends his reign as Catholic pope
1569 _ The first recorded lottery in England is drawn at St. Paul's Cathedral
1672 _ Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1693 _ Mt. Etna erupts, Sicily
1790 _ Statisten and Vonckisten unite as Belgium
1942 _ Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1949 _ Snowfall first recorded in Los Angeles
1960 _ Chad declares independence from France
1961 _ Racial riot at the University of Georgia
1981 _ Palau adopts constitution
1990 _ 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
1991 _ Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq